Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

● Ensures safe and reliable operation of the CoGen, IWTC and Demin plants at the Bayport

complex, including QMS requirements, developing/implementing effective improvement programs and developing the skills/competencies of personnel

● Complies with regulatory requirements

● Operates facility in compliance with all governmental regulations and Air Liquide policies

● Maintains all necessary boiler licenses and air permits

● Provides all regulatory training; maintains documentation

● Reports and investigates all incidents; ensures corrective actions are complete

● Develops/implements programs to ensure management systems/processes exist to conduct effective HSE self audits, and drive toward "zero" HSE violations

● Meets or exceeds company safety standards

● Implements and maintains the Life Critical system

● Owns key operating documents; maintains updated red-lines at all times; displays detailed understanding of content and significance of each document

● Makes plant/process decisions; performs process troubleshooting

● Fosters positive customer relationships

● Delivers quality and quantity of product required by the business and customers

● Partners with the Maintenance Center to execute predictive/preventive maintenance to eliminate catastrophic failures and unplanned maintenance

● Sets/maintains high housekeeping standards to exemplify and improve the Air Liquide image

● Keeps plant hazard analysis current; displays thorough knowledge of possible hazards and associated safeguards

● Adheres to Management of Change procedure

● Models exemplary safety behavior; leads by personal example

● Works to achieve "Zero Accidents" by taking a leadership role in safety

● Provides training/coaching to improve performance

● Provides candid constructive input to management decisions; actively support those decisions

● Insists on adherence to administrative and operational policies/procedures

● Understands, monitors and optimizes operating costs within authorized budget

● Identifies/implements opportunities to reduce costs within delegated authorization

● Continuously improves efficiency and availability indicators; tracks and reports KPIs

● Utilizes national purchasing agreements and frame agreements

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Are you a MATCH?

● Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required

● 5+ years process industry experience. Equivalent combination of education and experience acceptable

● Operating experience and proven track record for operational improvement and managing personnel required

● Technical/working understanding of the plant processes in any of the following technologies: ASU, Syngas, Cogen, or CO2. 

● Familiarity with regulatory requirements for operating plants, including Process Safety Management, OSHA regulations, EPA regulations, EEOC guidelines, FDA regulations (where applicable), state/local requirements

● Participate in root cause analysis investigations

● Computer literacy- familiarity with MS Office package or equivalent Google software package; Able to remotely access company Intranet; ability to use internal systems such as Maximo, Oracle, Intelex,  and Workday. 

● Trainable on Distributed Process Control (DCS) operation/troubleshooting

● Able to deliver/explain training material to operating personnel

● Extremely organized; effective at time management; able to establish/maintain a plant filing system and control of engineering documents; ability to read and red-line key operating documents

● Displays mechanical and electrical aptitude for equipment operation/troubleshooting.

● Working knowledge of commercial agreements and AL customer relations

● Excellent communication and team leadership skills

● General understanding of accounting principles; working knowledge of plant operating budget

● Candidates must have valid employment authorization in the U.S. and must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. This position is not open for non-immigrant visa sponsorship.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.