Plant Manager - Electronics

Linde Gas & Equipment; Alpha (NJ); On-site; USD 125,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Linde Gas & Equipment, Inc. Alpha, NJ, is seeking a Plant Manager for Electronics to lead a complex semiconductor gases and chemicals production facility.

You will provide strategic direction and day-to-day leadership to managers, supervisors, and operations staff while upholding safety, quality, and continuous improvement. The role emphasizes resource and budget management, talent development, and Lean/5S initiatives to reduce costs while meeting customer specs and business targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field highly preferred; high school diploma or GED required.
• You have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in an industrial plant environment.
• More than five (5+) years of experience in Operations, or quality, or engineering roles.
• At least three (3) years of experience leading and developing employees.

Responsibilities

• Lead a highly complex semiconductor gases and chemicals production facility, directing managers, supervisors, and operations personnel.
• Direct facility resources, budgets, and capital investments to ensure reliable, efficient production.
• Champion safety, regulatory compliance, environmental stewardship, quality, and operational reliability programs.

Skills

Leadership

Operations

Safety

Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree (technical field)

Job description

Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. Alpha, NJ, United States | req33409

Plant Manager - Electronics

What you will enjoy doing*

• You will lead a highly complex semiconductor gases and chemicals production facility, providing strategic direction and day-to-day leadership to a multi-level organization of managers, supervisors, and operations personnel while fostering a culture of safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement
• You will direct facility resources, operating budgets, and capital investments to ensure reliable, efficient production that meets demanding customer specifications and business objectives, while developing talent, building organizational capability, and maintaining workforce engagement
• Champion world-class safety, regulatory compliance, environmental stewardship, quality, and operational reliability programs, ensuring adherence to company standards, government regulations, and customer requirements
• Drive operational performance through proactive management of safety, quality, production, staffing, capital projects, and operating expenses, identifying risks, resolving challenges, and implementing corrective actions to achieve business targets
• Lead Operational Excellence initiatives focused on process optimization, equipment reliability, workforce development, inventory management, Lean/5S implementation, hazardous waste management, and sustainable cost reduction.
• You will manage and escape equipment and product quality issues, maintaining adequate inventory of production supplies and support 5S and Lean Projects and hazardous waste activities, continuously identifying ways to reduce plant operating costs through Operational Excellence strategies

What Makes You Great

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field highly preferred; high school diploma or GED required
• You have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in an industrial plant environment
• More than five (5+) years of experience in Operations, or quality, or engineering roles
• You have at least three (3) years of experience leading and developing employees

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you’re looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless. Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Additional compensation may vary depending on the position and organizational level. Build your future with us while making an impact every day! Pay Range: $125,475 - $184,030

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

*The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Therefore employees assigned may be required to perform additional job tasks required by the manager.