Manager - Industrial Gas - South Projects

Air Products; Gonzales (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Commissions

Vehicle allowance

401k with company match

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Dependent care benefits

Life insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Air Products is seeking a Regional Project Lead for the IG South PROS team, based in Pasadena, TX or Gonzales, LA. The role oversees a capital projects group covering 150+ plants in the US Southeast region and requires up to 20% travel.

You will mentor Project Engineers, coordinate delivery with operations and maintenance, and drive safety and project execution standards. Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in manufacturing capital projects, strong leadership, and excellent communication skills,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in manufacturing plant operations, maintenance, or capital projects.
• Strong project management skills across development, forecasting, and execution.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and planning abilities.
• Willing to work varied hours and travel up to 20%.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Project Engineering team including Project Engineers and Construction Managers.
• Ensure project processes from initiation to closeout are followed within the region.
• Serve as main contact between facilities, business partners, maintenance and engineering.
• Manage staffing for the region to meet project demand, including allocated staff.
• Oversee TAR planning and staffing for large plant turnarounds.
• Mentor engineers and review funding requests and project estimates.
• Ensure operability and hazard reviews are completed timely.
• Coordinate contractor development and contingent worker strategy.
• Lead monthly project status and gatekeeping meetings with regional partners.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Planning

Tools

SAP

Job description

At Air Products, we reimagine what's possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together - where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter - we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

Reimagine What's Possible

We are seeking a Regional Project Lead for our IG South PROS (Project Resources and Outage Support) team located in Pasadena, TX or Gonzales, LA. This position requires up to 20% domestic travel. This position leads a capital projects team that covers 150+ plants in the United States Southeast region.

What's In It for You:

• Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (day 1 of employment)
• Competitive base salary plus commissions
• Monthly Vehicle Allowance Program
• 401k with 100% vested company core and match
• Paid Vacation, holidays + sick time
• Paid Parental leave (Up to 4 weeks for both parents)
• Backup Child and Adult Care benefit
• Adoption assistance
• Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent daycare)
• Life Insurance (AD&D- Paid for by Air Products), Supplemental AD&D
• Legal Plan & Identity theft coverage
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Many more supplemental benefits available

This role reports to the North America Project Engineering Manager. The essential functions of this role include:

• Run all functions of a Project Engineering team including day-to-day management of Project Engineers and Construction Managers.
• Responsible for ensuring all parts of the project process are followed within the region from initiation through project close out.
• Main point of contact between the operational facilities, business area partners, maintenance, and the project engineering team.
• Leads workload of all employees including up to 7 Project Engineers (consisting of direct and contingent worker personnel).
• Work with maintenance team to supervise and forecast execution of all maintenance led capital projects.
• Handles appropriate staffing levels for the region to meet project demand including engineering team resources required for efficient project execution.
• Participate in the TAR planning process and ensure staffing is appropriate to complete capital projects in large plant turnarounds.
• Mentor Project Engineers through their careers.
• Review all funding requests and project estimates prior to issuance for approval.
• Ensure all projects receive adequate operability and hazard reviews and that all recommendations are completed in a timely manner and detailed appropriately.
• Ensure process safety is adhered to on all project invent.
• Coordinate regional contractor development strategy through partnership with Air Products procurement team.
• Coordinate regional contingent worker strategy working through the VNDLY system.
• Evaluate bid tabs for major contracts prior to bid award.
• Manage Project Safety and ensure accurate communication protocols are followed.
• Prepare and lead monthly safety meetings for the region presenting various incidents across the fleet and apply findings.
• Responsible for leading the Capital Project forecast and capital plan (development and execution) for the region, near-term and long-term.
• Ensure all projects meet the operability needs of the customer.
• Gain a basic understanding of the operating plant environment, process and equipment.
• Lead monthly project status and gatekeeping meetings for the region with all partners in the region.
• Understand quality standards as outlined by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
• Maintain accurate status of sub-region key performance indicators to stay aware of region and team performance.

Required Skills / Abilities:

• Manufacturing plant operations, maintenance, or capital projects experience (10 years minimum).
• Strong project management experience in project development and planning, estimating and forecasting, and execution and turnover.
• Strong leadership abilities.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and planning skills.
• Self-motivated and willingness to learn and improve.
• High ethical standards.
• Willing to work a wide variety of scheduled days and hours.
• Plant outage experience.
• Works authoritatively and collaboratively with employees, peers, management, support personnel, program participants and business area personnel.
• Applies positive and constructive demeanor toward resolution of problems and conflicts.
• Accepts direction, constructive feedback, and supervision.
• Understands that project safety and execution shall follow APCI standards and policies.
• Keep software tools and databases, used to own the project sub-region, current.
• Has excellent SAP skills withi