Education programmes of job
Nature of work
The profession of Control technician is a profession in the engineering field. It presents the joint between the academic supervisor who supervises the engineering project and the technician orcraftsman who executes the task. He/she is responsible for understanding and analyzing the technical booklets supplied by manufacturer from operational, assembly or maintenance. This includes:- Drawing and reading of engineering plans for the purpose of analyzing, testing, fixing and calibration.
- Knowledge in computer, information and automatic control technologies and the basic application.
- Preparing the technical reports, managing the employees and developing their skills, and developing the procedures for occupational safety.
- The tasks assigned to the Control technician as follows:
- Preparing tender books for purchasing and maintenance of systems in the control field, which must include technical and financial details.
- Ability to work within a team.
- Providing and use of occupational safety toolsand healthy working conditions.
- He/She can assist in educational process by working as laboratory technician or assisting the engineer in teaching.
Environment of work
- The Control Technicianworks for 8 hours daily throughout the week, except weekends and official holidays. He/She may have to work overtime even on holidays especially when there is installation or periodic or emergency maintenance works than requires long time.
- Doesn’t need special uniform.
- Require some measures and simple electrical tools to perform the tasks.
- Can work alone by establishing his/her own workshop specialized in maintaining of home control appliances or joining some tenders for a complete works in the control field.
- He/She should have a commitment to the international specification standards for control systems, installing the systems in the proper environment and works on assuring the performance quality.
- He/She should have integrity and honesty and should not submit to any emotional effects and should give his/her opinion and record the results of his/her work honestly and neutrally.
Professional life
- The ControlTechnician can perform the work whether in the public or private sectors. He/she is mostly the head of the execution team. The wage at the start when working for the public sector is about 17000 Syrian Pounds.
- The professional course of the control technician develops by gaining administrative and practical experiences through employment progression as workshop chief then to the larger circles and departments in managing projects as an expert which includes planning tasks for the execution stages and defining the execution priorities.
- For the top ranking graduates of the technical institutes, they can proceed to the faculty of the same profession.
- They can travel to make some maintenance or to give a practical expertise for the installation of some systems.
Sectors of careers
The control technician can perform tasks within the following professional sectors:- Private sector, i.e. his/her own workshop.
- Public and private sectors in all industrial and service establishments that deals with control circuits and systems (spinning and textile factories, medical field, ……).
Also can continue higher education in automatic control or control departments at private universities according to the criteria set by them.
Getting the job
The profession can be achieved through admission to the Technical Institute for Mechanic and Electricity department of control after finishing the senior high school scientific section with a score suiting the requirement defined by the ministry of higher education, or after finishing vocational senior high school electron section also with a score suiting the requirement defined by the ministry of higher education.The student at this department study the following knowledge fields: preparation field includes foreign language, computer science that helps in modern research and communication, other professional knowledge fields in electricity and electronics, professional computer programs related to electronic circuits, and a supportive knowledge fields includes metrology, quality engineering, industrial and occupational safety.
Skills
General Skills:- Works effectively within a multidisciplinary team, and knowledge of different working environment.
- Self and continuous learning to be up-to-date with fast technical development and the possibility to transfer the knowledge and skills in the field of control.
- Accomplishment of the required tasks on time and effectively managing the time according to priorities.
- Evaluation of employees and working to update their skills continuously.
- Knowledge of analog and digital electronics and signal treatment and some specific software.
- Reading and analyzing electronic plans for the control circuits and using measure devices and defect diagnosing systems.
- Operation - programing (small projects) – cabling (connecting) – maintenance for the PLC and simulation systems.
- Execution and testing of analog and digital electronic circuits.
- Using PC and software in control circuits and recognition of gates and passages and one programing language.
- Operation, programing and maintenance of Microcontrollers.
- Dealing with control monitors and using industrial networks protocols.
Sources and references
- Internal Book of Technical Institutes, University of Aleppo, 2008.
- Arab Occupational Classification, Arab Labor Organization, 2008.
- National Accreditation Reference Standards, Ministry of Higher Education, Syria, 2012.