Laboratory Technician
Details:
Responsibilities include laboratory testing of crude oil/oil samples.
The candidate will be working within a team of 3 members.
Previous laboratory experience is required.
Candidates should have basic chemical knowledge.
The role involves regularly taking crude oil and process-water samples, carrying out laboratory/chemical analysis, monitoring and adjusting chemical injection/dosing systems, troubleshooting issues, and reporting results to the customer. We are mainly looking for someone with chemical/process/refinery or oil & gas experience, good laboratory/sampling skills, and strong technical and communication skills
As a Service Delivery Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Implementing, monitoring, and assessing chemical injection systems to ensure system reliability and performance
- Sampling, analysing and reporting on routine process and water streams to determine system performance
- Maintaining chemical and inventory monitoring to ensure correct rates of operation
- Troubleshooting and correcting customer systems to resolve production related challenges and to ensure optimization of contract KPIs
- Overseeing product dosage rates and application changes for customer specifications to meet defined objectives
- Providing technical guidance for mobilization and demobilization of chemical injection system to ensure safety and performance
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have a technical diploma, Degree or equivalent related work experience
- Show good, general technical knowledge of company's products and services and their
- applications to customer needs and requirements
- Have good laboratory practice experience in an analytical or industrial environment
- Be a self-starter, proactively taking the initiative to identify and solve problems
- Demonstrate a customer-focused mindset and have a structured efficient approach to responding to customer needs
- Have excellent all-round communication skills
- Show a good understanding of IT such as MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
The role will be working within our field service delivery team to regularly sample, analyse, interpret, report, monitor and maintain our chemical injection systems and the processes which they are being applied to.
This is working in a crude oil refinery environment around crude receiving and processing units (tank farms, desalters, distillation units and overhead condensing systems).
Sampling of crude oil and process waters regularly across the M-F working week, with the intended purpose of optimising the system performance through analysis, interpretation, corrective action ownership and customer recommendations.