Lead III -Process & Environment Safety

Linde Engineering; Vadodara; On-site; INR 7,000,000 - 11,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Linde Engineering in Vadodara seeks a Senior Lead Engineer to steer large ASU projects, oversee design safety conceptualization and commissioning, and manage client interfaces across Asia Pacific regions.

The role requires a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with extensive ASU experience, leadership skills, and willingness to work onsite for medium to long term, delivering safe, cost-effective solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Chemical Engineering; 15+ years in ASU plant design, commissioning, and operations.
• Experience with global safety practices in air separation (EIGA, BCGA).
• Leadership to manage multi-stakeholder projects across LEI and clients.
• Formal oxygen safety training is desirable.
• Ability to work in a team and at sites/offices long term.
• Willingness to travel and operate in matrix organizations.

Responsibilities

• Create concepts and execution plans for robust, cost‑effective solutions.
• Analyse contracts, scope, interfaces, and risk; identify mitigations early.
• Participate in budget, schedule reviews, and cost estimation for proposals.
• Deliver quality outputs while controlling budget and schedule.
• Coordinate with other disciplines, vendors, clients, and PMC.
• Lead and supervise large and/or multiple project teams independently.
• Review technical calculations, specifications, and design deliverables.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Oxygen safety

Design safety

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering

Diploma in Chemical Engineering

Job description

Role Definition

Roles at this level are Team Leads, leading / managing a team of experienced and entry-level engineers. Teams typically peform similar type of work with diffference in the discipline and nature of projects.

This role requires domain expertise of the specific discipline

Key Responsibility

Proposal & Project Execution

• Create concepts, execution plans to provide robust technical and cost effective solutions specific to the project / customer
• Analyse contract and examine relevant scope and interfaces
• Early identification of risks and implement mitigations
• Participate in budget and execution schedule review
• Estimate cost and concept for proposals
• Deliver quality deliverable and control budget and schedule
• Develop cost effective, quality and HSE related concepts and solutions
• Review critical calculations, specifications, concepts and approve project deliverables
• Manage large size, complex project / proposal independently or supervise and manage multiple smaller projects / proposal teams independently

Interface Management & Alignment

• Co-ordinate with other EN disciplines and functions, vendors, sub-contractors, clients, PMC and entities
• Co-ordinate and supervise quality of the the team and external partners
• Work with matrix organization ie. reporting to Project/Engineering Managers for project matters and Line Managers for functional matters

Development & Continuous Improvement

• Contribute towards organizational quality, training and improvement initiatives and implementation in the projects, proposals
• Participate as auditee during internal and external process and technical audits and accountable for closure of audit, implementation of preventive and corrective actions
• Conduct technical meetings with the department for know-how backflow and lessons learnt

People Management

• Plan, manage resources including task assignment to project team members within the project
• Monitor, coach and develop team to enhance overall capabilities

Additional Tasks

• Support DH in administrative tasks, recruitment, learning and development, department competency enhancement

Technical/Subject Knowledge

A suitable candidate with experience of design safety conceptualization, oxygen safety competency, engineering and commissioning of ASU is expected to leverage his specialized knowledge to lead the ASU projects during conceptual phase, engineering phase, commissioning and startup activities at sites (as required) in Asia Pacific region.

Responsibilities

• Utilize his design process safety knowledge to ensure compliance to safety aspects during basic and detailed engineering phases.
• Preparation/review of process safety documents like defining design conditions, PSVs/RDs engineering, SIS engineering, Safety Manuals, Oxygen safety compliance, Plant Safety engineering, etc.
• Partcipate in several design reviews such as P&IDs, HAZOP, SIL, 3D Model reviews.
• Participation in FAT/SAT.
• PSV inspections (incl. Oxygen service) and vendor document reviews.
• Perform vent dispersion calculations in globally recognized software

Qualifications And Skills

• Bachelor of Chemical Engineering
• Extensive experience in ASU plant design, commissioning, and operations.
• Familiar with safe global practices and requirements in the Air separation industry e.g. EIGA, BCGA etc.
• Formal training on Oxygen safety is desirable
• Leadership capabilities to successful manage the project execution, while managing various stakeholders within LEI, across Linde Engineering entities, Client, etc.
• Willingness to work in team environment.
• Willingness to work at sites/offices for medium to long term.

Additional Responsibility

Large Project size:

MHs - 15,000 to 25,000 / 7+

Mid- Size Projects of high complexity

2 or more small size projects

Education & Experience

• Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with 15+ years or Diploma in Chemical Engineering with 20+ years of experience
• Site experience will be an added advantage