Analyzer Maintenance Technician

The Opportunity:

Are you seeking an opportunity to demonstrate and further develop your Process Analyzers Instrumentation skill set? This is an incredible opening where, as the Maintenance Technician specializing in Process Analyzers, you have the opportunity to contribute to the safety and reliability of equipment that the Upgrading and Utilities department is responsible for. With the support and direction of the Analyzer Lead Hand, this role will become a key technical resource directly supporting Upgrading and Utilities Maintenance, Operations, and Construction groups for Process and Environmental Analyzers.

Key Accountabilities:

• Monitor and maintain equipment in the Upgrading and Utilities area to ensure safe and efficient equipment and facility operation
• Provide technical assistance in the troubleshooting of all analytical instrumentation and perform “hands on” work as required
• Identify and document recurring problems so that an engineered solution can be provided and take proactive measures to address improvement opportunities through the “Management of Change” system
• Ensure that the work is adequately documented in the CMMS
• Work in cooperation with the Planning group to scope out routine and major jobs
• Maintain close contact with plant operations while working in plant areas and follow standard safety procedures, correct safety and environmental hazards and report them promptly

Other Details:

• Job location: Fort McMurray, Alberta – Horizon Oil Sands site
• Shift schedule: 7 days on, 7 days off (80 hours per rotation) – Thursday start
• Eligible for relocation to Calgary, Edmonton or Fort McMurray
• Company sponsored Fly-In/Fly-Out from Calgary or Edmonton
• Competitive salary, stock options, stock savings plan and benefits
• This is a safety sensitive position

Skills & Qualifications:

• Typically 5+ years of related industry experience in the role of Instrument and/or Analyzer Technician in a maintenance environment
• A Journeyman Instrumentation Technician with inter-provincial status
• Familiarity with and understanding of:
  • Continuous Emissions Monitoring, along with associated stack sampling and data acquisition systems
  • Analytical Instrumentation techniques including:
  • UV Spectroscopy
  • Infrared
  • Gas Chromatography
  • Steam and Water Chemistry Analyzers
  • Oxygen / Combustibles Analyzers
  • Gas and liquid Analyzer Sample Systems and Methods
• DCS (preferable Delta V) and PLC systems, along with field architecture and protocols including:
  • Analog
  • ModBus
  • Foundation Fieldbus
  • Hart

Why Canadian Natural?

CANADIAN NATURAL is a senior independent crude oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Our strong, diversified asset base is comprised of a balanced portfolio of light, synthetic, and heavy crude oil and natural gas.  Canadian Natural operates in Canada, the United Kingdom and Offshore Africa.

At Canadian Natural, we strive to live through our mission statement: “To develop people to work together to create value for the Company's shareholders by doing it right with fun and integrity.” We are committed to a long-term presence in the communities where we operate. Our activities create value by providing employment, business development opportunities, revenues to governments that contribute to spending on goods and services, and essential resources for public services, including health, safety, education and training. 

Over the last 30 years, we have grown from a Company with nine employees to over 10,000 employees.  We have increased our production from approximately 400 BOE/d in 1989 to more than one million BOE/d today.

Safety is a core value at Canadian Natural.  We conduct all of our operations in a way that identifies, minimizes and mitigates harm to the health and safety of employees, contractors, the public and the environment.

Canadian Natural Resources Limited – Canadian Natural – is a publicly traded company on the TSX and NYSE as CNQ

Application deadline is March 21, 2023.  Apply now!

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