Operations Technician Helium

Messer Americas; Bethlehem (Northampton County); On-site; USD 42,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Steady schedules

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Messer Americas is seeking a Technician to process gas orders safely and efficiently, delivering timely products to customers. The role emphasizes teamwork, minimal supervision, and maintaining positive relationships with Messer customers and employees.

The Technician will contribute to site safety, monitor equipment, and perform start-up/shut-down operations in line with site instructions, while keeping production records up to date.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in a production or manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to team safety through proper work habits and PPE usage.
• Understand, monitor and ensure product quality.
• Safely fill high pressure cylinders and cryogenic products.
• Maintain production records and logs.
• Monitor systems and equipment against standards; report issues.
• Inform management of safety or environmental problems promptly.

Skills

Production experience

Safety procedures

Quality monitoring

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Job Summary

Under the supervision of the Plant Manager, the Technician will process gas orders in a safe and efficient manner for timely delivery to our customers. The Technician will work effectively in a team environment with a minimum of supervision, maintaining a positive working relationship with Messer customers and employees.

Job Summary

Under the supervision of the Plant Manager, the Technician will process gas orders in a safe and efficient manner for timely delivery to our customers. The Technician will work effectively in a team environment with a minimum of supervision, maintaining a positive working relationship with Messer customers and employees.

Why Messer?

Messer is the world’s largest privately held industrial gases company and what we do matters because it is woven into every part of life, from the medical gases that patients rely on to the essential elements needed to safely and sustainably produce the goods our communities depend on. The true strength of Messer is our people—at every level and in every role. Join us and take pride in the impact you will make by providing solutions essential to our world and lives. Reach your highest potential at our stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by people who care. Messer stands apart because we put what matters first, and you matter.

Principal Responsibilities

• Contribute to team awareness of co-worker and personal safety through proper work habits, good housekeeping skills, and appropriate usage of personal protective equipment.
• Understand, monitor and take corrective actions to ensure product quality.
• Safely fill high pressure cylinders, tube trailers and safely fill cryogenic products into dewars.
• Contribute to site security efforts through continuous observance of site security procedures.
• Safely and efficiently supervise and conduct plant start-up and shut-down operations in accordance with approved site work instructions.
• Diagnose and remedy process problems.
• Maintain production records and logs.
• Monitor performance of systems and equipment against established standards, report any deficiencies.
• Promptly inform management of safety accidents, unsafe conditions, environmental problems or production operations problems.
• Attend and contribution to site safety through participation in the Site Safety Committee and monthly site Operations Safety meetings.
• Maintain self-paced training progress via computer training program and achieve established training targets.
• Perform other duties and tasks that are essential to the daily operations of the helium transfill.

Basic Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a production or manufacturing environment

About Messer

Messer’s safety culture, commitment to providing dependable supply and innovative gas technology solutions help customers unlock opportunities to be safer, more sustainable, more productive and more efficient, so their business thrives. We nurture lasting, meaningful relationships with customers, our communities, and with one another.

• We offer comprehensive benefits and appreciable pay, with steady schedules and opportunities for ongoing training and career progression.

We prioritize and invest in our people at every level of our organization – the dedication, knowledge, customer focus and entrepreneurial spirit of our employees is what make Messer refreshingly different.