
I&C Technician - Outage
Richland, WAFull-time / Temporary$69.27/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Energy Northwest is hiring an I&C Technician to support the plant’s biennial refueling outage at Columbia Generating Station. The temporary role installs, maintains, repairs, and calibrates instrumentation used in nuclear generation. The selected applicant must work onsite in Richland, Washington. The posting requires at least five years of applicable instrumentation and controls experience for outage work and a high school diploma or GED.
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Richland, WA
Full time
REQ26_311
Posting closes at 11:59 PM the day before the listed end date.
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite in Richland, WA.
Work with great people earning great money while contributing to clean energy.
Join the Energy Northwest team as we complete our 28th refueling outage at Columbia Generating Station.
GENERAL SUMMARY
This is a temporary position supporting the plant’s biennial refueling outage.
Responsible for installation, maintenance, repair, and calibration of plant and test instrumentation related to operation of large nuclear generation plants.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
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Perform surveillance tests and calibration of critical and non-critical instrumentation (e.g., power range monitoring systems, control rod drive multiplexing systems, pressure instruments, measurement and test equipment, and reactor simulator).
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Troubleshoot and repair process instrumentation used to monitor and control flow, radiation, temperature, pressure, power level, etc., including both pneumatic and electronic types.
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Assist in initial system lineup, calibration, pre-operational testing and startup testing of installed systems.
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Assist assigned supervision in the preparation of tooling and spare parts requirements, computer listing of instrumentation and spares, preparation of instructions, and establishing a preventive maintenance program.
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Maintain auxiliary instruments and instrumentation systems (e.g., assigned computers, air conditioning controls).
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Perform other tasks as required
REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Journeyman classification requires a minimum of five years of experience in instrumentation and controls. A minimum of two years of these five years of experience should be related technical training. A maximum of four years of the five years of experience may be fulfilled by related technical or academic training. High school diploma or GED required.
(For outage work only) At least five years applicable experience. Experience is applicable if it has been with instrumentation and controls in an industrial and/or commercial laboratory setting. A high school diploma or GED is required.
This is a bargaining unit position and the hourly pay rate is:
$69.27
Pay In Lieu of Benefits Amount:
$1.50
Energy Northwest does not provide employment visa sponsorship. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire and throughout employment.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Know Your Rights (PDF)
Current Energy Northwest employees must apply through the Jobs Hub on Workday.
As a regional leader in clean energy generation and public power solutions, Energy Northwest develops, owns and operates a diverse mix of electricity generating resources, including hydro, solar, battery storage and wind projects – and the Northwest’s only nuclear power facility. Energy Northwest is a Washington state joint operating agency comprised of public power member utilities, serving more than 1.5 million customers. The agency continually explores new generation projects and solutions to meet its members’ needs.
How this job compares
Set against the 457 open Controls Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$69.27/hr
- US median$33–48/hr218 hourly ranges
This rate, $69.27/hr, is 64% above the US median midpoint ($42/hr) — in the top quarter of Controls Technician hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 457 open Controls Technician jobs across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Controls Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (354 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 191 of the 457 open Controls Technician jobs (42%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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