Job description

Petroleum Inspector – Vancouver, BC

Employer: Bureau Veritas Fuels Testing Canada Inc.

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

Salary: $38.40 – $42.00 per hour (commensurate with experience)

Hours: Full-time, permanent – 40 hours per week (24-hour on-call rotation)

Language: English

Travel: 50 % – 70 % (within BC coastal region)

Oil and Petroleum Inspectors visit client facilities, including barges and ships, shore tanks, railcars, and tank trucks for quantity surveys of a variety of commodities including petroleum and petrochemicals inspection and collect samples for laboratory analysis.

Key Accountability/Responsibilities: What specifically is this job expected to accomplish?

- Receives orders, obtains information, and gathers paperwork from Operations Supervisor(s) on movements.
- Ensures that all equipment is in valuable operating condition, calibration verification, correct and clean. This includes safety and monitoring equipment appropriate to the job.
- Reports to job-site punctually and observes all Bureau Veritas applicable federal and province regulations and standards, Terminal, Refinery, and/or vessel requirements; including quality, safety and environmental standards.
- Support the ISO certificate(s) and assist in the corrective/preventive action process.
- Read, understand and adhere to the company Business Management System; including Quality, Safety, and Environmental policies and procedures.
- Attend “Key Meetings” with external personnel ashore and/or abroad. Represents Bureau Veritas by appearance and conduct. Behaves ethically at all times.
- Communicates any problems, discrepancies, or other noteworthy incidents to the Operations Supervisor and/or Dispatcher without delay.
- Obtains samples, gauges shore tanks, vessel(s), barge(s), railcar(s), and/or tank truck(s) as specified per job order.
- Labels sample containers with full and correct identifying data, including location of sample,



material, type of sample, safety information, time collected, etc.
- Promptly and accurately calculates quantities and completes all required paperwork and distributes copies appropriately.
- Promptly and safely delivers samples to a Bureau Veritas laboratory for analysis or turn in for retain, or client facilities for analysis or retain.
- Reviews any discrepancies with Operations Supervisor, signs and returns job order form.
- Maintains a 24-hour on-call status.
- Supports and participates in Bureau Veritas Business Management System (BMS).
- Attends company meetings as required.
- Keep company provided vehicle well maintained.

Skills and Knowledge: What skills and knowledge are used to carry out job responsibilities and solve problems?

- High school diploma or general education development certificate (GED) + petroleum technology diploma (optional but highly preferred)
- 3-5 years’ minimum experience in an Inspector /Marine Petroleum Inspector role
- Knowledge of HS&E; procedures associated with governmental regulations.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to add, subtracts, multiply, and divides in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving variables in standardized situations.




- Valid driver’s license required.
- Access to a well maintained vehicle to travel to job locations.
- Valid class 5 driver’s license

Work Relationships

- Internal: Laboratory department, Inspectors, supervisors and managers.
- External: Client facilities

Working Conditions: physical work environment, physical and mental effort, visual/listening attention and travel

- Performs work in high, precarious place, outdoors (all year round) and near flammable material.
- Regular exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold and extreme heat; possibility of working in enclosed spaces.
- Regular lifting/climbing and/or moving with up to 50lbs; occasional lifting of up to 100lbs (with assistance); may involve long periods of standing
- Regular walking, use of hands to handle or feel objects, tools and controls
- Regular reaching with arms, climbing and balancing
- Frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, listen, taste and smell.
- Frequently required to climb and descend stairways, ladders, and gangways.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
- Requires flexible working hours, overtime and shift work

Benefits:

Health & Dental Coverage

Life Insurance

STD & LTD Coverage

Company RRSP match

Employee Assistant Program (EAP)

Professional Development

Vacation Allotment = 3 weeks

· You may also contact Chris Gregg - Sr. Talent Acquisition Recruiter at [email protected]

Pay: $38.40-$42.00 per hour

Benefits:

- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Life insurance
- Mileage reimbursement
- Paid time off
- RRSP match

Work Location: In person

📌 Petroleum Inspector (Canada)
🏢 Bureau Veritas
📍 Canada