Job Description

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

Reimagine What’s Possible 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Provide effective leadership to the ASU operating teams to ensure the ASUs are operated safely, efficiently and in compliance with contractual requirements & on-stream guarantees. Ensure compliance with process safety, MOC’s, and OPHR’s requirements. Maintain effective work processes, drive continuous improvement and sharing of best practices at the plants. Manage the training of new operating staff for the APNJ Shift Ops team. Ensure Operating Procedures & manuals are in place and up to date for all the plants. Together with OTS team ensure plant preventive & breakdown maintenance are coordinated and executed in a timely manner and in accordance with the SAP PM system. Communicate and coordinate with logistics, commercial teams, CSO, local operations teams, maintenance teams, etc. to ensure product supply to the customer(s) when plant is down or when customer’s usage exceeds the plant capacity. Provide performance KPI reports such as down time reports, power & plant efficiency reports. Work with the PPE support teams and Global Supply Chain to identify & execute productivity ideas. Responsible for developing the APNJ Ops team to ensure that they:

• Monitor and make adjustment if needed to keep all the plants running well with high efficiency. Are built with technical competency on plant troubleshooting and keeping the plant under high reliability
• Any other duties as assigned and carry out tasks and requests from reporting managers in a timely and efficient manner.

Any other related work assigned by site manager

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• At least 8 years work experience in ASU, petrochemical, or related industries in operations and/or engineering or related activities.
• Demonstrated managerial leadership potential and proven interpersonal skills.
• Track record of success on safety, health and environmental protection.
• Track record of success in Quality and Regulatory compliance.
• A strong commitment to employee involvement, team building and diversity.
• Experience in process plant operation/maintenance and product distribution.
• Ability to interface with Regional support personnel.
• Good written and spoken English.

Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.