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POSITION SUMMARY

Purpose

Reporting to the Facility Manager, shift engineer is responsible for the day-to-day shift operation of the SMR, and ASU based on the Air Products Barauni Plant and ensuring shift operating team to operate the plants safely and efficiently to facilitate attainment of the company’s standards.  

Reporting to the Plant Supervisor, the shift engineer will ensure the smooth and reliable operation of all the operating units of the of the Air Products Barauni facility.

Nature and Scope

The Barauni Plant is Air Products first fully owned and operated plant in India; it represents a significant investment and includes “State of the Art” technology which makes it advanced Hydrogen Plant within the Corporation.

The plant consists of 2 main elements: -

1 x Large Technip Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) with Air Products PSA’s for H2 purification.An Air Products Air Separation Unit (ASU) Producing Nitrogen

The customer is Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), Barauni refinery and the Air Products plant is located within the customer’s site. The products from the Air Products plants go directly to the customer as part of their refinery expansion. There is a high level of integration between IOCL and Air Products with respect to feedstock’s, products and utilities. The products are critical to refinery unit operations.

The plants run on continuous basis and there is a strong emphasis of high reliability and high efficiency with contractual penalties against Air Products for underperformance.

Air Products owns, operates and maintains Hydrogen Plants and ASU’s around the globe with Operations in over 50 countries, in excess of 100 hydrogen plants and 350 ASU’s. As such we have a wealth of expertise and have well established work processes in place for the reliable and efficient operation of our plants.

Prior to facility operation the individual will have a period of training before plant commissioning begins, where they will have a role and involvement in the HYCO plant commissioning.

DIMENSIONS

Plant Products (Approximate):

H2:                               50        KTPA                                       

N2:                               4,000    Nm3/h  

           

Number of Direct Reports (approximate):  NIL.  He shall be one of the 4 shift engineers who work in shifts of 8 hours duration.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

A high regard for the safety of self and others.

Understand and have working knowledge of Air Products EH&S systems processes including emergency preparedness and incident management.

Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the plants in 8-hour shifts, including troubleshooting plant process problems, directly supervising daily plant activities and reporting to management. The Shift Engineer is required to be able to start up, shutdown or put the process into a safe position, escalating any abnormal situations to the Plant Supervisor.

Work alongside the Operations shift team to ensure adequate continuous operating cover, and additional cover if required in case of unplanned situations, even through commissioning, start up and operation, ensuring 24-hour stable operation.

Identifying maintenance concerns and bringing it to the notice of the Plant Management promptly and then coordinating with the maintenance team and implementing corrective / preventative measures.

Working with other Shift Engineers and support resources to achieve productivity targets.

Facilitate the use of, and compliance to AP EH&S standards such that EH&S performance continually improves, and performance targets are met. Issue permits, ensure logout tag out to facilitate hand over and take back equipments as per the safety protocol. Control maintenance activities associated with the process plant equipment. Understand various safe systems of work that are important to safe plant operation.

Capability to implement emergency plans or react to abnormal situations in a measured and proactive way.

Support the commissioning of the Barauni plants to ensure the start-up is successful; the plants are properly handed over to Operations in accordance with Air Products standards and all outstanding testing, work and punch list items identified with a path to closure.

Report production daily and generate daily production reports and other plant related reports as is required by the plant management.

Maintaining CW, BFW parameters as stipulated and ensure monitoring of the parameters including doing analysis of a few critical parameters like pH, conductivity etc.

Shall coordinate with the customer IOCL regarding product requirements and ensuring communication protocols during normal and plant emergency situations.

Ensure that the plant emissions and effluent are in accordance with the Air Products requirements and ensures proper communication with the plant management for all plant requirements.

Issue permits related to confined space, hot work, and all areas of safety after going through proper safety training as will be provided based on the company’s training program.

                                                                                                                    

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in engineering. (Typically, Chemical) or a BSc graduate or diploma in chemical Technology.

Direct experience in operation of large Steam Methane Reformers for hydrogen production or similar technologies for example ammonia, methanol etc. Experience in air separation (ASU) would be an advantage.

Minimum 5 years’ experience in gas, petrochemical, or related industries preferably from Ammonia, HYCO or methanol process industries with an engineering degree or min 10 years of experience in the Ammonia, HYCO or Methanol process with a graduate degree or diploma in chemical Technology.

Minimum 2 years' experience in shift Engineer positions typically worked as shift in charge or supervisor.

Experience in DCS. Siemens PCS7 will be an added advantage.

BOE/Boiler operation certificate will be an added advantage.

Excellent Communication skills.

Able to handle communication with customer.

Good technical knowledge in gas operations and engineering.

Fluent oral English and excellent written English.

Knowledge of Hindi will be an added advantage.

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. 

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