At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what's possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world's most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.

Reimagine What's Possible

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Safety

• Provide & maintain a safe work environment. Demonstrate leadership with all company & industry safe work processes to prevent all injuries.

Technical:

• Provide direction & guidance based on technical feedback from Engineering and Maintenance for troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and test activities.
• Provide Operations & Maintenance support & guidance during the commissioning of the plants. Maintain accurate document control and monitor quality assurance initiatives.
• Provide Operations and Maintenance guidance to ensure safety, reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
• Provide Operations and Maintenance input for scheduled outages to ensure contractual requirements are achieved.
• Manage plant production efficiently based on data driven decisions to ensure safety and reliability targets are met to achieve maximum profitable.
• Work closely with business areas to identify productivity expansion projects.

Operations and Maintenance

• Ensure the safety of all operations and maintenance personnel by utilizing the APQ Basic Safety Practice program, which includes Safety Work Permits, LOTO, Confined Space, etc. The position facilitates planning, organizing, auditing, and follow-up, to build the Air Products safety culture into the APQ.
• Ensure all Environmental Regulatory requirements are met.
• Establish the operating and maintenance organizations to support the commissioning activities and ongoing operations.
• Ensure Air Products and APQ standards, and global best practices for EH&S, productivity, reliability, quality, and overall customer services are met.
• Meet the customer's satisfaction on safety, reliability, product quality, and flexibility on product supply.
• Build the plant technical capability through support coordination from Air Product's Qudra Regional and Global teams.
• Provide coaching and motivation to the operations and maintenance team to achieve operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Develop, train, and promote top performing personnel who achieve success through teams, customer and employee focused, foster open communication, performance driven, and results oriented.
• Establish & maintain close working relationships with engineering and maintenance personnel to continuously monitor & evaluate plant systems & equipment through a Plant Process Advisory Model.
• Provide operations and maintenance support and ensure incident investigations and Root Cause Analysis are conducted with the proper subject matter experts when required. Drive the Identified sustainable corrective actions to closure in a timely manner.
• Act as the Single Point of Contact when dealing with internal issues of the facility, representing APQ and coordinating internal resources. Provide timely progress updates to the customer.
• Facilitate attainment of operations excellence and customer satisfaction via operations productivity, reliability, quality, cost reduction, services, continuous improvements, and meeting of budgets.
• Maintain a relationship with the customers' upper-level managers on a quarterly basis to insure alignment of expectations for APQ and the customers current and future product demand.

We are the world's largest hydrogen producer with over 80 years of industrial gas experience. We are hydrogen and industrial gas experts delivering safe, end-to-end solutions, investing in real, clean energy projects at scale, and driving the industry forward to generate a cleaner future.

At Air Products, we work in an environment where we put safety first, diversity is essential, inclusion is our culture, and each person knows they belong and matter. To learn more, visit About Air Products.