Question { Gulf, 5953 }

what are the major duties
of a instrumentation
engineer in a power plant.?

Answer

There is difference between Instrument Engineer & Instrument Technician.. but Engineer must be a good technician ... As an engineer your responsibilities are to trace the fault , trouble shoot it asap. you must have strong grip on instruments such as RTDs, Thermocouple, Sensors, PLC's, Transmitter etc,so that you can rectify the faults.  Once fault get rectify , Engineer major responsibility is to prepare a report and forward it to Manager whoever is your senior.