Analyzer Tech

Analyzer Technician Job Description

An Analyzer Technician is responsible for installing, maintaining, calibrating, troubleshooting, and repairing analytical instrumentation used in industrial facilities such as refineries, chemical plants, power plants, and manufacturing sites. These instruments monitor process conditions, product quality, emissions, and safety compliance. Common analyzers include gas chromatographs (GC), oxygen analyzers, pH analyzers, moisture analyzers, conductivity analyzers, emissions monitoring systems, spectrometers, and process sampling systems.

Analyzer Technicians work closely with operations, instrumentation, maintenance, and engineering teams to ensure accurate and reliable analyzer performance.

Typical duties and responsibilities include performing preventive maintenance on analytical equipment, calibrating and validating analyzers according to company procedures, troubleshooting instrument and sampling system issues, repairing or replacing faulty analyzer components, maintaining accurate maintenance and calibration records, ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations, supporting plant startups, shutdowns, and turnarounds, reading and interpreting P&IDs, loop drawings, and technical manuals, configuring analyzer software and communication systems, assisting with analyzer installations and commissioning, verifying analyzer accuracy against laboratory results, maintaining sample conditioning systems and probes, coordinating with operations to minimize downtime, following lockout/tagout (LOTO) and permit procedures, and maintaining housekeeping and safe work practices in analyzer shelters and process areas.

Required skills and qualifications include knowledge of industrial instrumentation and process controls, experience with analytical instrumentation and calibration, understanding of electrical systems and troubleshooting, familiarity with PLC/DCS systems, ability to read technical drawings and schematics, strong problem-solving and communication skills, knowledge of OSHA and plant safety standards, an associate degree or technical certification preferred, and experience in petrochemical, refinery, or manufacturing environments preferred.

Analyzer Technicians typically work in chemical plants, refineries, LNG facilities, or industrial plants both indoors and outdoors around high-temperature and hazardous process equipment on rotating schedules, call-outs, or overtime when needed.