HYCO Shift Supervisor

Air Products (Middle East) FZE; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 262,000 - 338,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in gas and chemicals seeks a qualified Operations Supervisor in Saudi Arabia. The candidate will oversee the HYCO Steam Methane Reformer unit, ensuring safety and operational excellence. Responsibilities include managing staff, enhancing safety protocols, and participating in incident investigations. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree, 10+ years in the petrochemical industry, and strong leadership skills. Proficiency in English is required. This role offers the opportunity for significant career advancement within the operations team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years' experience in gas or petrochemical operations.
• 4+ years in line supervision of process operations roles.
• Proficient in English, both spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a safe work environment and leadership in safety protocols.
• Provide direction for the HYCO Steam Methane Reformer unit and its staff.
• Lead teams during plant startups, shutdowns, and emergencies.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Coordination

Technical knowledge

Customer interaction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering

Associate technical degree

Job description

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Principal Accountabilities

Safety

• Provide & maintain a safe work environment. Demonstrate leadership with all company & industry safe work processes to prevent injuries.

Technical

• Provide direction to the staff of the HYCO Steam Methane Reformer unit and ancillary equipment as prescribed by the Work Instruction Procedures. Operate the unit when required.
• Provide direction & guidance based on technical feedback from Assistant Site Manager, Site Manager, Engineering and Maintenance for troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and test activities.
• Provide Operations support, guidance & lead the team during the startups, shutdowns and emergencies of the plants. Maintain accurate document control and monitor quality assurance initiatives.
• Provide Operations guidance to ensure safety, reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
• Provide Operations input for scheduled outages to ensure contractual requirements are achieved
• Manage plant production efficiently based on data driven decisions to ensure safety and reliability targets are met to achieve maximum profitable.
• Work closely with Shift Team, Assistant Site Manager, Site Manager, Maintenance Team and Engineering team to ensure production targets are achieved in his shift, plant running at optimum energy efficiency and safely.

Operations

• Ensure the safety of all operations personnel by utilizing the APQ Basic Safety Practice program, which includes Safety Work Permits, LOTO, Confined Space, etc. The position facilitates planning, organizing, auditing, and follow-up, to build the Air Products safety culture into the APQ.
• Ensure all Environmental Regulatory requirements are met.
• Ensure compliance to all CM, PM tasks.
• Support and prepare for Shutdown Planning and Turnaround Planning.
• Ensure Air Products and APQ standards, and global best practices for EH&S, productivity, reliability, quality, and overall customer services are met
• Meet the customer’s satisfaction on safety, reliability, product quality, and flexibility on product supply.
• Build the plant technical capability through support coordination from Assistant Site Manager, Site Manager, Maintenance Team and Engineering team.
• Provide coaching and motivation to the operations team to achieve operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Develop, train, and promote top performing personnel who achieve success through teams, customer and employee focused, foster open communication, performance driven, and results oriented.
• Establish & maintain close working relationships with engineering and maintenance personnel to continuously monitor & evaluate plant systems & equipment through a Plant Process Advisory Model.
• Provide operations support and participate / lead incident investigations and Root Cause Analysis. Identify & implement sustainable corrective action(s).
• Act as the Single Point of Contact when dealing with internal issues of the HYCO units, representing APQ and coordinating internal resources. Provide timely progress updates to the customer.
• Facilitate attainment of operations excellence and customer satisfaction via operations productivity, reliability, quality, cost reduction, services, continuous improvements, and meeting of budgets.
• Maintain a relationship with the customer’s counterparts from other Refinery Units where from APQ either receiving Feedstock, Utilities & Power or supplying Hydrogen and Steam to different Refinery Units on a regular basis through Refinery Shift Superintendent to ensure alignment of expectations for APQ and the customers current and future product demand.
• Fully accountable to ensure his logs and that his operator’s logs are accurate and compliant with published matrix.
• Accountable to view all IOW Event Manager Logs and ensure proper actions have been taken on a daily basis.
• Accountable to personally inspect all Active Leaks each shift and update any degradation in his report.
• Accountable to audit, review and assign action each day for the logs from his operators.
• Accountable to complete his team’s Work List on daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis.
• Accountable to ensure implementation of issued mitigation plans for all Emergency and High level (Safety Risk/Environment Risk/Availability Risk/Utilization Risk/Energy Risk) log items.

Skills

Minimum Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, Mechanical, or Chemical Process Operations preferred. An associate technical degree (2 year certificate) will be considered based on years of experience and competence.
• Experience in gas, petrochemical, or related industries in operations, engineering, and/or a maintenance function. Demonstrated HYCO knowledge a plus, with a minimum of 10 years’ experience with 4 + years in line supervision of process operations roles.
• Expectation based on level of experience for the operations team to achieve a ‘Level 1 / Board Level’ status within 2 – 4 years. Operators will be evaluated during the training period and placed at the level of competence accordingly. All the operations team are considered field and board operators when Level 1 is achieved. Leadership positions are expected to follow the progression process.
• The HYCO Operations Supervisor is an extension of the operating team and is expected to engage in plant operations when required.
• Proven coordination experience in a multi team environment which includes operations, engineering, and maintenance.
• Good leadership, interpersonal and teamwork skills with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively throughout all levels within the organization and externally.
• Promotes a ‘one team’ environment.
• Ability to communicate and manage customer interactions on a daily basis.
• Wide technical knowledge in operations, engineering, and maintenance activities.
• Proficiency in English speaking and writing.
• Knowledge and understanding of local environmental and health and safety requirements.