HYCO Shift Supervisor

Overview 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.

Air Products is 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.

Principal Accountabilities Safety

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

Technical

Provide direction to the staff of the HYCO Steam Methane Reformer unit and ancillary equipment as prescribed by the Work Instruction Procedures. Operate the unit when required.

Provide direction and guidance based on technical feedback from Assistant Site Manager, Site Manager, Engineering and Maintenance for troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and test activities.

Provide Operations support, guidance and lead the team during startups, shutdowns and emergencies of the plants. Maintain accurate document control and monitor quality assurance initiatives.

Provide Operations guidance to ensure safety, reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety / security systems.

Provide Operations 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 profitability.

Work closely with Shift Team, Assistant Site Manager, Site Manager, Maintenance Team and Engineering team to ensure production targets are achieved in his shift, plant running at optimum energy efficiency and safely.

Operations

Ensure the safety of all operations 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.

Ensure compliance with all CM, PM tasks.

Support and prepare for Shutdown Planning and Turnaround Planning.

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 Assistant Site Manager, Site Manager, Maintenance Team and Engineering team.

Provide coaching and motivation to the operations 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 and maintain close working relationships with engineering and maintenance personnel to continuously monitor and evaluate plant systems and equipment through a Plant Process Advisory Model.

Provide operations support and participate in / lead incident investigations and Root Cause Analysis. Identify and implement sustainable corrective action(s).

Act as the Single Point of Contact when dealing with internal issues of the HYCO units, 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 budgets.

Maintain a relationship with the customer’s counterparts from other Refinery Units where APQ either receives Feedstock, Utilities & Power or supplies Hydrogen and Steam to different Refinery Units to ensure alignment of expectations for APQ and the customers current and future product demand.

Fully accountable to ensure logs and operator logs are accurate and compliant with published matrix.

Accountable to review IOW Event Manager Logs and ensure proper actions have been taken daily.

Accountable to personally inspect all Active Leaks each shift and update any degradation in his report.

Accountable to audit, review and assign action each day for the logs from his operators.

Accountable to complete his team’s Work List on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis.

Accountable to ensure implementation of issued mitigation plans for all Emergency and High level (Safety Risk / Environment Risk / Availability Risk / Utilization Risk / Energy Risk) log items.

Minimum Requirements And Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in chemical, Mechanical, or Chemical Process Operations preferred. An associate technical degree (2 year certificate) will be considered based on years of experience and competence.

Experience in gas, petrochemical, or related industries in operations, engineering, and / or a maintenance function. Demonstrated HYCO knowledge a plus, with a minimum of 10 years’ experience with 4+ years in line supervision of process operations roles.

Expectation based on level of experience for the operations team to achieve a ‘Level 1 / Board Level’ status within 2 – 4 years. Operators will be evaluated during the training period and placed at the level of competence accordingly. All the operations team are considered field and board operators when Level 1 is achieved. Leadership positions are expected to follow the progression process.

The HYCO Operations Supervisor is an extension of the operating team and is expected to engage in plant operations when required.

Proven coordination experience in a multi team environment which includes operations, engineering, and maintenance.

Good leadership, interpersonal and teamwork skills with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively throughout all levels within the organization and externally.

Promotes a ‘one team’ environment.

Ability to communicate and manage customer interactions on a daily basis.

Wide technical knowledge in operations, engineering, and maintenance activities.

Proficiency in English speaking and writing.

Knowledge and understanding of local environmental and health and safety requirements.

Additional 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.

Job Details

Seniority level : Mid-Senior level

Employment type : Contract

Job function : Management and Manufacturing

Industries : Chemical Manufacturing

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