Low-Carbon Hydrogen Director
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North America | Canada
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Job Description and Qualifications
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 Job Description: The Low-CI Hydrogen Director plays a critical role in supporting low-CI hydrogen projects that are expected to receive a high level of customer, public, governmental and NGO scrutiny from project execution through to reaching commercial on-stream. The primary responsibility of the Low-CI Hydrogen Director is to effectively lead and coordinate across the organization to address the threats and opportunities that are created by this greater level of scrutiny. The secondary responsibility is to ensure commercial readiness for an orderly transition of the asset ownership into the regional business management function of which this role will assume full commercial ownership post on-stream. This will be an on-site role.
Job Duties: The Low-CI Hydrogen Director is accountable for the following activities during the development, execution and commercial ownership transition of a low-CI hydrogen project:
- Provide regional leadership and coordination support to all government, permitting, community, and key stakeholder outreach activities as required during project development and execution.
- Be the lead on identifying, negotiating, and managing government funding agreements with support from other internal functions as required (ie. gov. relations, business development, tax, finance, etc).
- Provide input to business development from a local commercial perspective into project scope, contract negotiations, project structuring and financial modeling – including government incentives and regulatory credit revenues streams.
- Provide all necessary asset management support for large projects through construction, commissioning, and commercialization to enable an orderly transition of the facility into the business management function.
- Taking ownership of all commercial responsibilities post on-stream including the P&L and full asset management. Lead the team accountable for the day-to-day optimization of the facility operation to maximize revenues while ensuring to meet customer and governmental support contractual obligations.
- Must have the ability to communicate effectively to represent Air Products Canada in regional and national organizations and forums. Serve as an authoritative representative to internal and external audiences on technical, regulatory, policy, and market conditions that promote production and end-use markets for low-carbon hydrogen.
- In addition, this role will provide local leadership to H2fM growth initiatives and commercial oversight of H2fM government grants/agreements ensuring consistent methods/messages.
Minimum Qualifications: The position requires an individual with extensive commercial experience, a strong technical background, and an overall understanding of large complex operations. The specific skills required include:
- 20+ years of business management or large facility operations management experience,
- Track record of identifying and successfully pursuing new opportunities, leading negotiations, writing proposals, structuring complex deals.
- In-depth knowledge of Canada’s regulatory & political landscape driving actions for decarbonization
- Must have the ability to develop a solid understanding of the technical aspects of hydrogen feedstock sourcing, production, distribution and fueling in order to credibly communicate the advantages of hydrogen to key stakeholders.
- Experience leading and influencing diverse teams of technical, commercial, and financial professionals.
- Experience with any of; large capital project development, environmental permitting, and/or regulatory compliance activities including directly working with government agencies considered an asset.
- Excellent leadership, influencing, and interpersonal skills,
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills including the ability to use a variety of presentation platforms.
- Ability to discuss and present highly technical material effectively to non-technical audiences.
Education and Licensing Requirements: - Undergraduate or graduate degree in Finance, Business, Engineering . MBA preferred
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.
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