Precision GC Lab Technician – Cleanroom & Assembly Expert

Yokogawa; Al Khobar; On-site; SAR 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Yokogawa is seeking a GC Column Technician in Saudi Arabia to fabricate, pack, and condition GC columns and support hardware assembly in a clean, controlled environment. You will perform tube finishing, leak checking, and documentation of processes, ensuring high-purity gas paths and safe operation in a precision instrumentation setting.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will help maintain equipment, follow strict safety standards, and contribute to reproducible analytical

Qualifications

• Education: Technical Diploma or Vocational Certification in Mechanical, Instrumentation, Electrical, Industrial Technology, or Applied Chemistry.
• Experience: 2–5 years of hands-on GC column preparation/packing, mechanical assembly, tube-finishing, or technician duties in an analyzer manufacturing/integration, chromatography consumables lab, or precision instrumentation facility.

Responsibilities

• Fabricate, pack, and wind GC columns (using stainless steel, SilcoSteel or Sulfinert tubing) according to specified recipes and mesh sizes.
• Operate column packing equipment and maintain uniform bed density with zero channel formation.
• Prepare, cut, end-cap, and bake-out of packed and capillary column sets in conditioning ovens.
• Maintain precise records of column batches, packing materials, lot numbers, and phase bleed characteristics.

Skills

GC column prep

Packing techniques

Thermal conditioning

Tubing fabrication

Leak checking

P&ID interpretation

Mechanical drawings

Carrier gas systems

Education

Technical Diploma or Vocational Certification

Job description

Yokogawa is seeking a GC Column Technician in Saudi Arabia to fabricate, pack, and condition GC columns and support hardware assembly in a clean, controlled environment. You will perform tube finishing, leak checking, and documentation of processes, ensuring high-purity gas paths and safe operation in a precision instrumentation setting.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will help maintain equipment, follow strict safety standards, and contribute to reproducible analytical