Filling Plant Operator (1 year term)

CA10382-CANADA AIR LIQUIDE CANADA INC.; Calgary; On-site; CAD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Liquide Canada Inc. in Calgary, Alberta, is seeking a Cylinder Filler who will prepare and fill high-pressure cylinders while upholding safety and quality standards. The role involves operating filling equipment, maintaining documentation, and ensuring compliance with the TRM procedures.

The ideal candidate has a high school diploma, ISO safety training, forklift experience, and 3–5 years in an industrial setting. Join a team focused on safety, accuracy, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• High school diploma required.
• ISO Quality System training.
• Forklift truck certification helpful.
• Knowledge of compressed gases and handling dangerous materials.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• 3–5 years of experience in the industrial sector.

Responsibilities

• Prepare empty cylinders for filling and sort by product.
• Clean cylinders and conduct sniff tests.
• Replace labels and input data into CMS.
• Start-up and shut down of filling equipment.
• Fill cylinders according to product sheets and registers.
• Maintain quality and safety standards and report issues.
• Record cylinder data and discrepancies.
• Support process improvements and cross-functional teamwork.

Skills

Written communication

Oral communication

Mathematical skills

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Planning

Leadership

Education

High school diploma

Tools

CMS (Cylinder Management System)

Forklift truck

Job description

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The main object and purpose of this position consist in filling and handling high pressure cylinders in keeping with the safety requirements in order to satisfy the clients’ expectations and ensure that operations are efficient, while promoting ALC’s quality and safety objectives.

At Air Liquide, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

Job Responsibilities

• Prepares empty cylinders for filling: Sorts cylinders by product and checks for defects.
• Cleans the cylinders and conducts sniff tests.
• Replaces labels on the cylinders and inputs data into CMS (Cylinder Management System.
• Is responsible for filling of cylinders: Is responsible for the start-up and shut down of filling equipment.
• Connects cylinders, vents, then purges residual gas using a vacuum pump.
• Fills cylinders according to the Product Preparation sheet & Product Filling register assigned to the gas being filled.
• Keeps up with the norms set out for filling and inputs data.
• Quality/Safety: Promotes ALC’s safety and quality objectives.
• Knows and respects all safety and quality requirements, policies and procedures to follow while on ALC property.
• Reports any safety issues to the Production or Safety Manager.
• Make sure that appropriate corrective and preventive measures are in place in order to answer customer complaints.
• Ensures quality control: Understands and implements procedures, according to the current operating instructions provided in the TRM (Technical Reference Manual).
• Ensures the maintenance of cylinders regarding defects, appearance and labeling.
• Sends rejected cylinders to cylinder maintenance.
• Takes part in the daily clean up of the plant along with keeping tools and equipment in good working condition.
• Participates in work planning and administration: Records the number of cylinders filled and any discrepancies with respect to the established calendar.
• Notes irregularities, serial numbers and any pertinent information and sends it to the people in charge.
• Process improvement: Works with his/her team and other cross-functional teams to continuously improve work processes.
• Identifies any non-compliance and causes of problems in his/her activities and proposes appropriate solutions.

This role will be on a 4/10 shift.

Are you a MATCH?

• Diploma: High school diploma
• Training: Quality System (ISO), safety, forklift truck
• Knowledge: Compressed gases, written and oral communication skills, mathematical skills, handling and transporting dangerous materials
• Experience : 3 to 5 years of experience in the industrial sector

Other COMPETENCIES

• 1. Technical abilities: Masters concepts, tools and methods related to his/her job, meet or exceed professional requirements of his/her field of work, keeps abreast of progress in his/her field.
• 2. Problem-Solving: Identifies problem situations within an appropriate time frame, develops several alternative solutions to problems, analyses situations and highlights important issues, suggests adequate, valuable and feasible solutions.
• 3. Team Player: Shares knowledge and experience, cooperates and makes self available, listens, gathers information, takes into consideration the needs, ideas, opinions of others.
• 4. Planning skills: Defines objectives and the means to achieve them, determines all required resources, anticipates future situations and establishes work plans, efficiently allocates or makes use of available resources, acts according to plans and establishes priorities, uses efficient methods, systems and work tools.
• 5. Leadership: Positively influences others, easily obtains cooperation from others, is concerned with people as much as with results.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background.

We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health. Through the passion and diversity of its people, Air Liquide leverages energy and environment transition, changes in healthcare and digitization, and delivers greater value to all its stakeholders.

Join us for a stimulating experience: you’ll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative and respectful environment.

Discover what your professional journey at Air Liquide could be here!