With the growing popularity of a career in instrumentation and control, it is essential to combine your engineering knowledge or electrical trade skills with practical instrumentation & control skills.

1. Upskill with PMV to Start a Career in
Instrumentation and Control
In Australia, there is a growing need for Instrumentation and Control (IC) technicians.
You can work in the oil and gas industry on an oil rig, at manufacturing facilities, power
plants, mineral and chemical processing, fertilizer plants and hospitals.
With the growing popularity of a career in instrumentation and control, it is essential to
combine your engineering knowledge or electrical trade skills with practical
instrumentation and control skills.
If you are considering progressing your career as a technician or engineer, and to stay
ahead in handling the challenges and opportunities created by instrumentation and control
automation industry, you must develop a broad range of competencies in this exciting and
evolving field. Therefore, you must also have hands on skills to select, calibrate, fault
find and test field instruments and control systems including programming and fault
finding of vendor(s) supplied PLC, HMI, and industrial networking.

2. Various instrumentation and control system courses offered by PMV can upskill and
boost your career progression in this innovative area of skill shortage.
WHAT DOES AN INSTRUMENTATION
TECHNICIAN DO?
An instrumentation technician can specify, select, install, modify, fault find and repair
field instruments and in an existing control system based on their skills and competence.
Some of the specific tasks undertaken by an instrumentation technician, follows:
1. Install electrical and instrumentation devices that manage operations within a building, such as a factory or
processing facility.
2. To identify and fix problems, inspect, and test the machinery, instruments, and control systems.
3. Understand electrical, electronic, hydraulic, mechanical, and pneumatic concepts and commission and
maintain control systems and support plant operation.
4. For the control systems of a facility, create, enter, and validate programs on PLCs and HMI.
WHY CHOOSE PMV?
PMV is one of Australia’s finest professional electrical training institutes in
Australia with a team of industry-based professional trainers with years of industry
experience and offers 20+ nationally recognised training programs and certificate
courses.
• PMV focuses on students’ growth and career opportunities by giving them maximum exposure to equipment
that reflects the on-site instruments and controls and practices.
• PMV programs provide students with the skills to effectively manage electrical and instrumentation, process
automation, and control skids designed by PMV instrumentation engineers and fabricated by PMV
instrumentation technicians with industry experience.

3. • PMV has aligned training with current industry standards (AS/NZS and IEC), using the latest equipment and
technologies.
• PMV training offers comprehensive education and hands-on experience in process automation, control, and
instrumentation and trains individuals with electrician skills.
Hands-on training provides experience and confidence to deal with simple and complex
instrumentation and control system problems.
WHAT COUSRES ARE AVAILBLE TO BECOME
AN INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN
The following are the courses provided by PMV to train the students in Electrical
Instrumentation careers.
• Diploma of Electrical & Instrumentation
• Diploma of Instrumentation & Control Engineering
• Advanced Diploma of Instrumentation & Control Engineering
• Certificate III in Instrumentation & Control
• Certificate IV in Instrumentation & Control
• Certificate IV in Electrical Instrumentation
By completing these courses, the students will gain essential knowledge in using
instrumentation drawings, specifications, standards, and manuals and learn how to solve
problems in pressure, density/level, flow and temperature measurements instruments and
systems – all of which are important in industries including oil and gas, mining and even
pharmaceuticals.
The market is huge, and many companies need help finding qualified workers with the
right skill set and solid educational background. You can choose and undertake the above
courses as a building block to start a career in instrumentation that is projected to offer a
lucrative career for years.
Contact us to find out more about which course is right for you, or to book in.

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