Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Ruben Trujillo

Houston,Texas

Summary

Dedicated I&E Technician skilled in troubleshooting, diagnostics and service on diverse instrumentation and electrical in industrial plants. Troubleshooting, installing, calibrating and function checking a variety of instruments for optimal performance. Talented technician with organized and amazing approach to problem-solving.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Instrumentation Technician

MMR Constructors
04.2024 - 05.2024
  • Helping with migration from Honeywell to Rosemount transmitters.
  • DCS program migration system.
  • Replacing flex, regulators, tubing, positioners on variety of valves, de-term and re-term and function checking once all is complete.
  • Calibrating Differential Pressure, Flow, Pressure, Temperature, Level transmitters.
  • Function checking and calibrating complex and different transmitters like capillary transmitters, coriolis transmitters, torpedo transmitters, turbine transmitters, magnorestrictive transmitters.
  • Doing small tubing runs from air supply to regulator, regulator to automatic, and other runs less than 20ft.
  • Terminating automatic valves.
  • Terminating fire eyes for Reformer in Hydrogen unit and installing them to conveyor.
  • Bench calibrated instruments ready to install in unit.
  • Troubleshoot instruments, valves, and motors acting up once unit was up and running.

I&E Technician

JSE Group/Maintenance Project
03.2024 - 04.2024
  • Enhanced system efficiency by calibrating and maintaining instrumentation and control devices.
  • Reduced equipment downtime through routine inspections, preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting.
  • Replacing old level switches/probes
  • Troubleshooting, terminating, function checking & verifying before start up with operations
  • Running & bending 1/4 & 3/8 tubing from valve, to regulator then to solenoid
  • Checking voltage AC/DC & Ohms with 789 Fluke
  • Function checking & troubleshooting solenoids
  • Working alongside Invista In-house technicians
  • Installing & terminating stop-run-start, start up switches
  • Installing, terminating, function checking variety of turbine meters, torpedo meters, capillary transmitters, and coriolis flow meters.

Instrumentation Technician

MMR Group/Turnaround-Shutdown
01.2024 - 03.2024
  • Terminating MOV's, Triconex, PLC cabinets, & variety of instruments
  • Commissioning & troubleshooting MOV's (motor operated valves) before start up
  • Calibrating & pumping up instruments
  • Assisting journeymen electricians on downtime
  • Working in Coker unit, terminating MOV's, transmitters, panels and cabinets then going ahead and commissioning, calibrating, etc.
  • Reading loop drawings, schematics, P&ID's, location drawings, spec sheets, etc.
  • Increased production output by continuously monitoring and adjusting process control parameters as needed.
  • Removed damaged instruments and repaired components.
  • Kept shop area and equipment clean, organized and maintained.
  • Preturnaround work turned into shutdown/turnaround working 14 hours a day occasionally up to this date.

Electrical Technician

Caliber Solutions I&E/Commissioning & Start Up
12.2023 - 01.2024
  • Trained junior electrical professionals on proper procedures.
  • Pulling variety types of cable wire at high altitudes through complex systems.
  • Installing breaker boxes on stackers, pulling wire, knocking out holes with knockout set, and terminating.
  • Fabricating, cutting, and installing unistrut.
  • Running cable wire- Disconnect-MCC-to motors.
  • Using scissor lifts & man lifts everyday to complete daily job tasks.
  • Terminating gears in MCC rooms, PLC cabinets, panels, motors.
  • Installing gears in MCC rooms.
  • Cleaning up every day beginning of day, throughout my day, and at the end of day to always keep a safe & clean area.

Instrumentation Technician

DDT Managment & Technical/Commissioning & Start Up
09.2023 - 11.2023
  • Removed damaged instruments and repaired components.
  • Conducted troubleshooting procedures and root cause analysis to determine causes of problems.
  • Replaced top hats, positioners, solenoids, regulators, from doing the wiring to brand new flex and connectors on a different variety of valves. (Ev, Fv, Tv, Pv valves)
  • Shooting loops and calibration on variety of transmitters from Rosemount, Schneider Electric, VEGA, Yokogawa
  • Replacing and troubleshooting speed switches (M100T)
  • Replacing and troubleshooting level switches (QXL)
  • Commission work, going through daily lists and verifying motors, pumps, blower fans, conveyors, gates, transmitters, switches, and valves are working 100% before plant start up
  • Terminating small Jboxes
  • Checking voltage, ohms, mA on Fluke 789
  • Worked with Fluke 789, 726, 725, clamp meter, TREX communicator, pressure gauges and hand pumps
  • Reading P&ID's, loop drawings, spec sheets, location drawings, electrical drawings

Instrumentation Technician Jr

Peterson I&E Group/Maintenance Job
02.2022 - 09.2023
  • Keeping work area and equipment clean, organized and maintained.
  • Conducting troubleshooting procedures and analysis to determine causes of problems.
  • Cleaning, calibrating, and troubleshooting various types of transmitters, pressure switches, and a variety of valves.
  • Testing and troubleshooting instruments using TREX smart communicator or the 475 smart communicator, fluke multimeters (various models), different variety of pressure meters like the PIECAL pneumatic pressure pump, PIECAL 525B, and by reading and understanding drawings.
  • Running continuity checks to verify cable wiring and help with troubleshooting.
  • Reading and understanding control loop diagrams, P&IDs, installation details, location drawings, spec sheets, etc.
  • Assisting electricians on down time in installing cable tray, supports, vacuum pump motors, conduit pipe, stripping wire, pulling cable, and termination.
  • Troubleshooting PLC & control room cabinets.
  • Inspecting equipment to detect electrical leaks and other problems.
  • Assisting electricians and process operators.

Electrician Apprentice

Zachry Group/New Construction Project
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Pulled wire through conduits, cable tray, confined spaces, trenches, complex VRU units, MCCs, etc.
  • Worked under supervision of Journeyman Electrician & Electrical Technicians to learn trade and develop electrical knowledge.
  • Organized materials and tools to maintain work area clean because a clean electrician is a good electrician.
  • Installed various sizes of conduit pipe, bent conduit pipe using Greenlee conduit benders, threaded conduit pipe using Ridgid 535A.
  • Installed cable tray, channel tray, unistrut supports, offsets, splice plates, measuring and cutting with bandsaw.
  • Stripped wire and got ready for termination.
  • Installing vacuum pump motors, blower motors
  • Terminating instruments & valves.
  • Reading and understanding loop diagrams and installation details.
  • Taking turns with other apprentices in being hole watch, firewatch, flagger and spotter.

Education

High School Diploma -

Galena Park High School
Galena Park, TX
06.2020

Skills

  • Good knowledge in safety and plant rules
  • Troubleshooting many instruments & variety of valves, switches, transmitters, electrical and control systems
  • Function checking, calibrations, bench calibrations, loop checks on variety of instruments and electrical systems
  • Experience on 475 communicator & Trex hart smart communicator, various models of fluke multimeters like the 789, 754 & 725, PIECAL 525B, PIECAL hand pressure pump,etc
  • Working with transmitters such as flow, level, temperature and pressure, DP's, (Schneider Electric, Vega, Rosemount Yokogawa, Jamesbury, and many more), Capillary, Coriolis, Torpedo, Turbine, Magnorestrictive, and many more complex transmitters
  • Experience installing, uninstalling, terminating, determination on instruments
  • Continuity checks, checking voltage, ohms, loop power, on Fluke 789
  • Reading and understanding P&IDs, installation detail drawings, spec/calibration sheets, loop diagram drawings, electrical diagrams, etc
  • Replacing positioners, regulators, solenoids, top hats on variety of valves, from terminating to short tubing runs
  • Diligent smart worker, perfect attendance, highly motivated, dedicated, problem solver, easy to get along with
  • Can speak, read, and write in spanish and english
  • Experience in DCS systems, PLC cabinets, Triconex, Buckets, etc
  • Experience in DCS migration systems

Certification

  • NCCER - Instrumentation Technician
  • TLDR Apprentice License
  • Certification Structural Welding- Mig, Flux, Stick
  • TWIC card
  • Basic PLUS & ISTC


Timeline

Instrumentation Technician

MMR Constructors
04.2024 - 05.2024

I&E Technician

JSE Group/Maintenance Project
03.2024 - 04.2024

Instrumentation Technician

MMR Group/Turnaround-Shutdown
01.2024 - 03.2024

Electrical Technician

Caliber Solutions I&E/Commissioning & Start Up
12.2023 - 01.2024

Instrumentation Technician

DDT Managment & Technical/Commissioning & Start Up
09.2023 - 11.2023

Instrumentation Technician Jr

Peterson I&E Group/Maintenance Job
02.2022 - 09.2023

Electrician Apprentice

Zachry Group/New Construction Project
01.2021 - 01.2022

High School Diploma -

Galena Park High School
Ruben Trujillo