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:

The person in this position will be mainly responsible for the plant instrumentation and control system troubleshooting, plant projects and continuous improvement support including reliability and productivity. This person is also responsible for the plant support of the Process Automation System (PAS) with respect to some programming skills, preventive maintenance, plant shutdown circuit revalidation and legacy control system upgrade. Primary routine duties involve providing day-to-day tech support to JVCo plants in two major technical disciplines – instrumentation and controls(PLC) —and also include participation in new units startup and commissioning, installing, and maintaining. Also facilitates implementation in the JVCo plants of “best practices” and RCA in the controls and instrumentation disciplines—and participates in generating RCA investigation report and best practices for JVCo ASU,AP Shell Gasification and Purification process plants in the instrumentation and controls areas. Emphasis placed on safety, team work. This position is also responsible for helping to implement SIS revalidation work and eMOC in the plant. This position is also responsible for helping to train JVCo local team in our plant maintenance organization and our JV/Subs.

Operations Types:    AP Shell Coal Gasification, CO shift and Lurgi Rectisol Purification, Gas pipelines and Steam-driven ASU plants.

Work Schedule:        This position supports field operations, which operate 24 hours a day everyday, and as such this position is always “on call.”  Normal work schedule is Monday through Friday, but realistically will require considerable extra hours and some weekend/holiday work.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

BS in Engineering. Preferable in Chemical, Electrical Engineering or Automation Engineering. 10+ years in gas, petrochemical, or related industry in operations and/or engineering or related activities. Preferably 5+ years in Instruments. ASU or shell Gasification Instrument experience will be priority. A strong background in field instrumentation, including valves, transmitters, and locator is a desired. Proficiency with methods of level, temperature, pressure and flow measurement is required, especially special instruments for coal chemical industry. Skills related to Siemens PLC systems maintenance, upgrade planning, implementation and communications within our organizations are highly desirable. Good office software using skill. Mid-level oral English and written English will be helpful.

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.