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Canada & Onsites HYCO Plant Process Engineering Manager and Technical Specialist

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Mar 2025

About the role

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 

The Canada & Onsite HYCO Plant Process Engineering (PPE) Manager will direct a team of 5 Plant Process Engineers located across Canada and the United States. The Manager will work effectively with operations leadership, commercial teams, operations engineering, and corporate engineering. The Manager will also act as a HYCO Technical Specialist for the Americas, where they will draw on their depth and breadth of experience to help solve complex problems across the variety of technologies and geographies. Expected travel across the Americas is 25%.

Responsibilities of the Canada & Onsite HYCO PPE Manager include:

Lead team of 5 Plant Process Engineers. This scope includes hiring, objectives setting/performance accountability, Talent Management process, and personnel development. He or she is charged with maintaining a high level of motivation, innovation, teamwork, and contribution among this team of engineers. Team members will have appropriate training to regularly use the full suite of engineering tools available.
Identify and develop plant capacity and productivity projects that meet business needs. Provide technical direction/support on efforts to acquire and integrate HYCO facilities into Air Products business and operations. Provide necessary leadership to ensure projects are developed and implemented with an emphasis on safety and reliability.
Support operating teams to ensure they are meeting their efficiency, capacity, and reliability goals. Although primary day-to-day responsibility lies with this manager’s reports, the manager is accountable and is expected to provide and/or obtain additional expertise as needed to resolve issues.
Prioritize support of operations to ensure Air Products’ compliance with EH&S requirements. This support includes compliance with process safety programs (e.g., Management of Change, Operating Plant Hazard Reviews) and personnel safety requirements.
Lead and/or support fleet-wide initiatives, including but not limited to Best Practices, Event Management action items, Process Condition Monitoring, catalyst optimization, reformer temperature balancing, Advanced Controls, and Multi-Plant Optimizations (MPO)/Multi-Variable Optimizations (MVO) applications.
Provide support during turnarounds to ensure catalyst changeouts and other process engineering related MOCs, capital projects, inspections and discovery resolutions are appropriately staffed and executed.

Qualifications

B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering preferred; other Engineering degrees will be considered.
20+ years of combined experience in technical, operations and/or engineering capacities. Formal or informal supervisory experience would be very beneficial.
Demonstrated leadership skills, including the ability to foster an environment of open communication, innovation, trust, personal and professional growth.
Operating and/or engineering experience with HYCO (hydrogen, CO, syngas) technologies is required.
Project development and execution experience; ideally project retrofit projects.
Operations support, including plant trouble-shooting experience.
Quantitative, value-driven, decision making.
Experience managing remote reports is a plus.

What's In It for You:

At Air Products we foster a culture of inclusion where every voice is heard, and everyone feels they belong and matter. Additionally, we offer competitive pay and great benefits for our employees. Check out some of our benefits below!

(benefits should be modified for Union positions)