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Job Description

Do you want to work in a key role where your technical expertise in process instrumentation makes a real difference? We are now looking for an engaged and driven Instrument Engineer for an exciting consultancy assignment via Randstad with our client in Strängnäs. Our client is an established player in the process industry, and in this role, you will have the opportunity to work in a high-tech production environment. You will have overall technical responsibility for the instrument fleet, optimize maintenance programs, and drive lifecycle and replacement projects. The work is deeply integrated with production and operations, which places high demands on your ability to translate complex technical theories into practical, reliable solutions. The role is advisory and coordinating; you function as expert support for production, but you do not perform the practical assembly or maintenance in the field yourself.

Being a consultant at Randstad:

As a consultant at Randstad, you are part of something bigger. We offer you secure employment with collective agreements, market-competitive salary, fitness allowance, and pension benefits. Working as a consultant gives you a fantastic opportunity to broaden your network, gather valuable experience from outstanding companies, and develop rapidly in your career. At Randstad, the human element is at the center, and you get a dedicated consultant manager who supports you in your professional development, listens to your career goals, and ensures that you thrive and are challenged in your workplace. We give you the security of a large employer, combined with the flexibility and variety of a consultant role.

Responsibilities

• Technical responsibility for instrumentation: Responsible for the technical area regarding common production instruments (level transmitters, flow meters, temperature sensors, pressure transmitters, etc.).
• Application selection & Advisory: Select the right instrument technologies based on specific application requirements and evaluate pros and cons between different measurement systems.
• Installation support: Ensure and instruct on correct installation, assembly, and optimal integration of field instruments into the production process.
• Maintenance and calibration planning: Develop, structure, and continuously improve maintenance programs, calibration methods, and procedures for the instrument fleet.
• Project and lifecycle management: Plan, lead, and execute replacement projects and drive long-term lifecycle management of instrumentation.
• Reliability analysis: Analyze failure modes and operational history to increase plant reliability and proactively reduce unplanned downtime.
• Troubleshooting: Identify and rectify signal problems and disturbances in industrial communication between field instruments and control systems.
• Documentation & Standardization: Drive standardization and ensure accurate technical documentation, traceability, and compliance with standards (e.g., ISO).

Qualifications

• Deep instrument understanding: In-depth knowledge of operating principles for field instruments such as radar, ultrasonic, Coriolis, vortex, differential pressure, PT100, and thermocouples.
• Experience in measurement technology: Solid experience with calibration methods, practical handling of calibration equipment, and good understanding of measurement uncertainty and traceability according to standards.
• Industrial communication: Good understanding of how instruments communicate with control systems via analog signals (4–20 mA) as well as digital protocols (HART, Modbus, Profibus, Foundation Fieldbus).
• Lifecycle and maintenance experience: Experience in building maintenance programs, conducting reliability analyses, and planning replacement projects.
• Collaboration and communication skills: Since the role involves interfaces with many parts of the business, you are communicative and have an easy time collaborating with both operations technicians and engineers.
• Personal attributes: You are a practical yet analytical person with strong problem-solving skills who thrives working close to production.

About the Company

Randstad

At Randstad, we know that every person has a place in the labor market. With operations throughout the country and in all competence areas, we help people find a job that feels good, where they have the opportunity to grow, develop, and achieve their full potential.

With nearly 600,000 employees in 38 countries, Randstad is the world leader in HR services, with the goal of becoming the world's leading and most appreciated partner in the labor market. By combining our passion for people with the power of today's technology, we help people and companies achieve their full potential. We call it Human Forward.