Assistant Site Manager

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.

Principal Accountabilities

• Safety
• Provide & maintain a safe work environment. Demonstrate leadership with all company & industry safe work processes to prevent all injuries.
• Adherence to company HSSE policy and procedures. Ensure all Environmental Regulatory requirements are met. Ensure Air Products and APQ standards, and global best practices for EH&S, productivity, reliability, quality, and overall customer services are met.
• Technical
• Provide direction & guidance based on technical feedback from Engineering and Maintenance for troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and test activities.
• Provide Operations and Maintenance support. 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. Meet the customer’s satisfaction on safety, reliability, product quality, and flexibility on product supply.
• Responsible for performing all tasks assigned in a safe and responsible manner in accordance with the established operating procedures and written or oral instructions from Superintendent.
• Ensure that maintenance notifications in SAP are carried out correctly. Verify SAP notification on field and approved with basic data i.e. functional location, malfunction description, damage code, priority, and hazard information.
• Participate in pre-work visits with Maintenance and Contractors to identify risk activities.
• Ensure each work permit related documents are prepared and handed over to the team.
• Participate in preparing maintenance or process shutdowns and turnarounds i.e. scope of works, prioritization of notifications (define consequences of malfunctions in terms of sector availability).
• Participate in area daily meeting and share the maintenance plan with team to ensure all equipment’s are prepared for scheduled maintenance works (corrective and preventive).
• Participate in maintenance plan daily meetings with the Maintenance Leader and Planners to analyze daily notifications, and to contribute to the updating of the weekly maintenance schedule.
• Ensure equipment’s readiness for maintenance activity and after completion back to operations.
• Manage and organize regular equipment testing and routine preventive Maintenance.
• Participate in the marking priority maintenance activities to guarantee the reliability and operational continuity of equipment and to agree the date of repair.
• Release and ensure all work permit precautions and required conditions are fulfilled, maximize safe work permit practices by healthy communication & frequent site visits, ensure zero permit deviation
• Manage interface with all support departments for maintenance activities
• Need to have the necessary skills for conducting risk assessment and participate in unusual operational or maintenance activities.
• Contribute to achieving routine maintenance KPIs and objectives specific to the se reliability, planning and scheduling.
• Ensure availability and updating of required procedures and schedules for special operations.
• Ensure minimum forced tags & bypasses during operation by proper maintenance planning. Follow SIF procedure for forced tags & bypasses.
• Build the plant technical capability through support coordination from Air Product’s Regional and Global teams.
• Provide coaching and motivation to the operations team to achieve operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Develop, train, and promote top performing operation 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.
• Provide operations and maintenance support and participate / lead incident investigations and Root Cause Analysis. Identify & implement sustainable corrective action(s).
• Act as the Single Point of Contact when dealing with internal issues of the facility, representing APQ and coordinating internal resources.
• Facilitate attainment of operations excellence and customer satisfaction via operations productivity, reliability, quality, cost reduction, services, continuous improvements, and meeting of budgets.

Minimum Requirements And Qualifications

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.

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