Plant Engineer

Air Liquide; Hamilton; On-site; CAD 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Liquide Canada is seeking a Plant Engineer to deliver technical support to production teams, drive process improvements, and lead refurbishment projects while upholding safety, quality, and reliability standards in our Hamilton, Ontario plants.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize equipment performance, manage local projects, and ensure compliance with management of change processes, risk assessments, and safety procedures in a fast-paced industrial environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical or Chemical engineering is required/preferred.
• 1–5 years of engineering experience, ideally in an industrial plant setting.
• Ability to lift and move heavy equipment (>50 lbs) and work in physically demanding positions.

Responsibilities

• Solve operational problems and support plant start-ups and optimization.
• Develop specifications for production procedures and update existing ones.
• Identify changes to improve safety, reliability, and efficiency of plant processes.

Skills

Problem solving

Safety leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor of Engineering degree (Mechanical or Chemical)

Tools

P&IDs reading

Piping isometrics

Electrical schematics

Job description

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

At Air Liquide Canada, 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.

Air Liquide is Hiring a Plant EngineerSalary Range: $105,000 - $115,000

Location: Hamilton, ON

Ability to work on-call nights, weekends, and holidays as required

Occasional travel

Job Summary

The primary objective of this position is to provide technical support to operational teams by identifying opportunities for process improvements and refurbishment projects in production plants, while ensuring equipment safety, reliability, and efficiency. The incumbent ensures that projects are properly executed to meet production objectives while promoting Air Liquide Canada's (ALC) quality and safety standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Solves operational problems, assists with plant start-ups and optimization, and implements planning and control techniques.
• Helps identify production issues, develops specifications for production procedures, revises existing procedures, and keeps employees informed of company policies.
• Anticipates production needs and identifies, recommends, and implements changes to plant processes, equipment, and systems to improve safety, reliability, and efficiency.
• Analyzes new equipment, optimizes resource utilization, and drives individual contributions and innovative working methods.
• Proposes objectives based on production priorities and direction, ensuring project success and sustainable results.
• Evaluates and improves performance in safety, environment, production quality, profitability, equipment reliability, production capacity, and process improvement.
• Manages local plant projects and acts as a facilitator for major projects led by the corporate project team, following up from planning to commissioning using standard project management processes.
• Ensures Management of Change (MOC) processes and documentation controls are properly executed.
• Partners with immediate and cross-functional teams to continuously improve workflows, analyze operations, identify root causes of malfunctions, and propose effective corrective measures.
• Contributes to defining and implementing safety recommendations and procedures, coaches others on risk management, and performs audits and preventive actions.
• Identifies potential risks, implements corrective actions, ensures regulatory compliance and deadlines are met, and integrates risk prevention early into the design stage.
• Upholds safety as our highest priority. Safety procedures and guidelines must be adhered to at all times, including wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) such as hard hats, eye protection, hearing protection, flame-retardant clothing, and safety shoes throughout every work shift.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering degree (preferably in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering).
• 1–5 years of engineering experience (preferably in an industrial plant setting).
• Ability to lift, move, or carry heavy equipment (>50 lbs) and work in physically challenging positions as required.
• Ability to move, react, and navigate various plant environments quickly in response to operational and process needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to model core behavioral competencies, including promoting safety, committing to company performance, thinking innovatively, adapting to change, remaining solution-focused, communicating with impact, and effectively managing competing priorities.
• Ability to communicate technical and complex problems effectively to various stakeholders.
• Ability to read and interpret piping isometrics, P&IDs, and electrical schematics.
• Ability to identify and explain hazards present in an energy isolation procedure.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of control panels and operator interface console operations.

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.