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North America | Canada
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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 Lead Process Engineer Job Description :
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a Fortune 500 manufacturer of industrial gases, has an immediate opening for a Commissioning & Start-up Completions Lead to be part of building a new energy future. This position is intended to target candidates with field / operations experience and who have a curiosity about a position within the Commissioning & Start-up (Americas) Team. The Commissioning & Start-up (Americas) Team supports the safe and efficient commissioning and start-up of process gas (SMR, Gasification), NH3 / Urea / Methanol and cryogenic technologies (ASU, Syngas Distillation, Hydrogen Liquefaction). We are responsible for all start- up projects in the Americas region and can be involved in certain projects globally, as well as supporting operating facilities where required!
Our team executes designs that span all Industrial Gases for the varying markets that Air Products serves. We support both Product Teams (Process Gas and ASU) in development of new products as well as executing mature technology offerings.
We also support our internal customers: Americas Operations, Equipment Sales and Plant Support (ESPS) and the Pipeline group.
Our Project Execution team is accountable for driving competitive execution strategies through leading and managing the design, build, commissioning, and successful handover of Air Separation Process Plants to worldwide customers. In achieving this, high safety performance is taken as a given. To support a growing project portfolio, we’d like to hear from suitably qualified Construction Cost Estimators looking to enhance their skills within this high-performing team. This successful candidate will ensure that competitive cost estimates are achieved during the bid phase of a project, and that ongoing forecasting is maintained to allow accurate decisions to be made during execution.
Roles and Responsibilities: The successful candidate may be asked to support work in our other engineering offices in Hersham (UK), Shanghai (China), and Pune/Vadodara (India).
- Provide P.E. stamping of project deliverables for facilities built in Alberta, Canada.
- Support the Product Teams in synthesis, selection and evaluation of process cycles for optimum plant OPEX and CAPEX.
- Generate/refine Heat & Material Balances (HMBs) using ASPEN+ process simulator
- Develop/refine plant Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs)
- Perform detailed equipment design calculations and specifications for hydrogenation/de-sulfurization, pre-reformer, shift reactors, catalyst specification, cooling train exchangers, steam system, CO2 removal, and potentially CO2 capture (typical deliverables for HyCO plant designs)
- Perform detailed equipment design calculations and specifications for front-end adsorption purification systems, cryogenic heat exchangers, and distillation columns for engineer-to-order opportunities (typical deliverables for cryogenic plant designs)
- Perform/refine calculations and write duty specifications for machinery, vessels, control valves, relief devices, and other instruments
- Support P&ID development, operability reviews and hazard reviews
- Support model reviews, complete coldbox inspections
- Interface with third party SMR equipment supplier
- Support plant start-up and lead plant performance testing
- Support Operations and ESPS with evaluations, calculations, studies as requested
- Domestic and international travel to customer locations and to plant sites is expected about 15 percent of the time.
Required Skills / Abilities:
To be successful as part of the North America Process Engineering team, candidates must:
- Be motivated and have good interpersonal and communication skills
- Support a variety of projects within budgeted hours and to schedule
- Have a strong understanding of thermodynamics and be able to adapt knowledge to new applications
- Leadership or mentoring experience as well as good team spirit, working in the diverse teams
- Have good commercial and fiscal awareness and actively seek lowest cost alternatives
- Motivate and supervise less experienced engineers
- 10 -15+ years prior experience in Process, Operations, Process Systems, or Controls is preferred
- Detailed knowledge of one or more of the following technologies preferred: Syngas generation (Steam Methane Reformers, Auto Thermal Reforms, Partial Oxidation Reactors), Cryogenic Distillation, Air Separation Technology, Ammonia Production, Methanal, Helium Liquefiers, Hydrogen Liquefiers, Electrolysis, PSA Technology, Amine Systems, Gasification, CO2 Collection/purification
- Responsible for inventory management activities for HyCO spare equipment parts inventory stored both on and off site. Work with materials management and warehousing to update spares information as needed.
Education and Licensing Requirements:
- Must be registered as a Canadian professional engineer in Alberta, Canada
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (preferred) or Mechanical Engineering
We are the world’s largest hydrogen producer with over 80 years of industrial gas experience. We are hydrogen 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 .
Air Products offers a competitive salary, extensive health benefits package, company paid pension and company matched RRSP plans.
We strive to be inclusive of the diversity of our employees, invest in their development and foster a collaborative and respectful work environment where all employees feel like they belong and matter.
We are committed to employment equity and encourages applications from women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities. In accordance with AODA, applicants with disability requiring accommodation during the recruitment process are encouraged to make their needs known in advance.
Due to Canadian Immigration regulations, only applications from Canadian citizens or other individuals legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered.
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest, however only those being considered will be contacted.
Air Products proudly values the skills, dedication, and leadership that veterans bring to the table. As a veteran-friendly organization, we actively encourage and welcome veterans to apply for various roles within our company. We recognize the unique strengths and experiences that veterans contribute, and we foster a workplace that honors your service while providing a platform for professional growth.
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