Petroleum Services Technician - Albany

Petroleum Services Technician - Albany

Carson is looking for a Petroleum Services Technician to join our Albany branch within Carson Industrial Services. This is a specialized, hands-on, customer-facing field role focused on keeping fuel and fluid systems clean, reliable, and compliant across customer locations.

This position provides operational support, predictive maintenance, repair, and replacement of customer equipment, with a primary focus on fuel polishing and fluid reclamation alongside the full range of petroleum-equipment service: fuel dispensers and cardlocks, storage tanks (UST and AST), pumps, tank-monitoring and leak-detection systems, and lube, oil, and DEF systems. The role supports Carson's mission of delivering advanced service offerings that enhance our customers' operational capability and profitability, and that establish Carson as a highly valued business partner.

This is a senior-level technician role. The Petroleum Services Technician is expected to work independently across the most complex petroleum and fluid-reclamation work, diagnose difficult failures, and represent Carson professionally on every site. The position reports directly to the Director of Carson Industrial Services.

Representative work across the role:

• Operate, maintain, and repair Carson fuel polishing and fluid reclamation equipment.
• Perform on-site fuel polishing and conditioning: filtration, water and sediment removal, and microbial contamination remediation for stored fuel and reservoirs.
• Obtain fluid samples from tanks, reservoirs, and equipment; verify fuel quality and document results.
• Maintain, repair, and replace customer reliability and fluid dispensing equipment.
• Install reliability and fluid dispensing equipment.
• Fabricate parts and accessories as needed to complete service and installation work.
• Interact effectively and professionally with customers' maintenance personnel on reliability and fluid-handling needs.
• Perform Internal UST Tank Cleanings

• Routine dispenser preventive maintenance: replace hoses, nozzles, swivels, breakaways, and filters; lubricate; clean sumps and containment; inspect enclosures, gaskets, and vapor-recovery hardware.
• Diagnose and repair dispenser mechanical and hydraulic flow problems (low, no, or erratic flow); replace meters, pulsers, and flow-control valves and correct meter calibration errors.
• Replace and repair circuit boards, electronics, display panels, keypads, and receipt printers as licenses allow; diagnose and repair card reader hardware and software (coordinating with the manufacturer for software).
• Troubleshoot vapor-recovery failures (Stage I and II) and dispenser communication errors (POS and ATG).
• Install and set new dispensers (outside electrical scope), connect hanging hardware, and perform QC and acceptance testing; program cardlock configurations and coordinate vendor, POS, and ATG startup and commissioning.

• Inspect and maintain tank areas: manholes, risers, fill caps, spill buckets, gauge covers and fittings; pump water from sumps and spill buckets.
• Inspect interstitial spaces, overfill prevention, and emergency and PV vents; monitor for leakage and verify level versus ATG; inspect ASTs for corrosion, leaks, and structural integrity, and maintain secondary containment.
• Install and anchor ASTs and reconfigure AST piping; coordinate licensed contractors on UST and containment installation and removal, and assist with decommissioning.

• Service and repair submersible and suction pumps: motors, heads, columns, turbines, impellers, check and foot valves, control boxes, and relay panels; diagnose low-pressure and no-flow issues.
• Install new pump systems including plumbing; coordinate startup, testing, product-line and flex-connector replacement, and air purge; test pump line leak detectors and confirm calibration.

• Coordinate ATG vendor on install, configuration, programming, network connectivity, reporting, and software updates and backups, including smart tank monitors.
• Replace and calibrate ATG probes, floats, consoles, and peripherals; perform calibration and accuracy verification; troubleshoot communication failures and respond to alarms.
• Service and test leak detection: sensor probes and floats, sensor wells, turbine sump sensors, and vapor monitoring; coordinate periodic third-party leak-detection testing and document per regulations.

• Routine lube and oil service: fill, top-off, and verify bulk oil inventory; change filters, breathers, and strainers; collect oil and fuel samples.
• Install and service bulk oil systems, tanks, reels, hoses, nozzles, and grease pumps; inspect and test pump motors, regulators, and pneumatic systems; calibrate meters.
• Install and service DEF dispensing systems and tanks; maintain DEF hoses, nozzles, and fittings; inspect heating and verify DEF quality.

• Work in full OSHA and company compliance: PPE, confined-space and gas-detection requirements, ladder and heights safety, and live-traffic and retail-fueling safety.
• Handle hazardous materials (HAZCOM…