Our customer, a major oil and gas company, is currently looking for a Laboratory Sampling Technician for their facility in the Ft. McMurray area. The successful candidate will be responsible for collecting and analyzing samples to provide accurate data to operations. The successful candidate will also comply with a QA/QC laboratory program to ensure accurate reporting. The work schedule is 14 days on and 14 days off, working day and night shifts. Candidates must be local to the area. 

Accountabilities:

• Collect and extract well pad emulsion samples.
• Collect gas samples
• Prepare collected or extracted samples for analysis or shipping.
• Perform various routine tests in an efficient manner, primarily Karl Fisher water analysis.
• Communicate sample results clearly and efficiently
• Utilize, calibrate and maintain Karl Fischer titrator
• Collect process samples in an operating plant, following all applicable safety precautions
• Ensure laboratory facility is kept clean and in a safe and functional condition
• Ensure that all laboratory supplies and expendables are available and in stock
• Interface with Operators, Process and Facility Engineers, and Site Management
• Experience in laboratory QA/QC program implementation

Qualifications: 

• Have, or be willing to complete H2S Alive before arriving to site to begin work.
• Able to perform sampling with SCBA (Self-contained breathing apparatus) when required.
• Valid Drivers license- Comfortable driving a truck.
• Willing to work in a high paced physical role in an outside environment ~50% of the time.
• Must be comfortable with heights. Some sample locations are accessed via ladder or on elevated platform
• Self starter; ability to work with limited direction
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Basic skills in Microsoft Productivity programs.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment, utilizing strong organizational and time management skills
• Experience in SAGD refinery or process plant sectors.
• Power engineering ticket or partial education viewed as an assist
• Experience in a laboratory and or sampling
• Experience in laboratory QA/QC program implementation

Candidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada without restrictions and are subject to background checks including criminal and drug and alcohol testing.

We thank all applicants for their interest in working with Roska DBO Inc. However only those selected, will be contacted for an interview.

Roska DBO Inc. is a customer-focused operations company with a more than 25-year track record offering expertise in production and equipment solutions on well sites and facilities. Based in Grande Prairie, Alberta, with a network of locations, Roska serves all of western and northern Canada, plus selected U.S. and international markets, with a primary focus on the Alberta/ B.C. region.

Our Workforce Solutions group works with customers across western Canada to recruit qualified candidates for assignments ranging from emergency callouts to longer term contingent workforce solutions. Our customers rely on us for operational staff, including plant/field operators, turnaround staff, administration and camp support staff.

In addition to fulfilling the operating needs of oil and gas producing, midstream and pipeline companies, Roska operates, designs and builds well-site facilities, rents equipment and provides production testing and flowback services using a company-owned well testing fleet. When you join the Roska team, the sky is the limit!