Senior Manager, Generated Gases – Central Team

US10 Air Products and Chemical; Allentown (Lehigh County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

HSA

Life Insurance

Job summary

Air Products is seeking an experienced Manager, Generated Gases Central Team to lead a multi-site operations group from its Allentown headquarters. You will supervise specialists and coordinate with PDO and sub-regional teams to keep gens gas plants flowing reliably and safely.

The role emphasizes 5+ years leadership in operations, strong technical acumen, and travel about 25% while driving continuous improvement and cost optimization across the central team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical field preferred.
• 10+ years operations experience with strong working knowledge of operating plant systems including Maintenance.
• Candidates must have at least 5 years of leadership experience in Operations or Plant Management.
• Demonstrated managerial leadership skills and proven interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams remotely.
• Ability to travel approximately 25% of the time.
• Demonstrated excellence in asset management efforts to drive continuous improvement in business profitability.
• Track record of success on safety, health and environmental protection.
• A strong commitment to employee involvement, team building and diversity.
• Air Products proudly values the skills, dedication, and leadership that Veterans provide.

Responsibilities

• Direct supervision of 4 Specialists and 1 OSC Manager.
• Acting as the primary contact between PDO, sub-regional business areas and Operations as a point of escalation of any Gen Gas plant or product line issues.
• Managing central team to support Gen Gas operations, including OSC, vacation relief, small ASU, HPN, VSA and administrative month end closing.
• Support the coordination between Operations and PDO for turnover of projects/new plant startups.
• Technical troubleshooting of plant issues, and sharing of improvements to ensure broad resolution across fleet of similar plants.
• Leading Gen Gas Community of Practice to share failures, incidents, safety issues, and improvement opportunities among all the GG supervisors.
• Leading contract extension scope assessments to allow the project engineering team to estimate re-life projects for the plants.
• Promoting tool development and adaptation to improve monitoring and resolution of operating issues, shortfalls, reliability concerns.
• Ensuring consistency in Gen Gas staffing decisions to ensure proper level of operations personnel to achieve reliability targets while keeping costs optimized.
• Developing RCAs for major Gen Gas product supply interruptions, cost impacts, or significant downtime events.
• Leading Gen Gas reliability efforts by completing Reliability Operating System assessments, working closely with the central ROS team.

Skills

Leadership experience

Operations management

Team supervision

Remote leadership

Travel willingness

Asset management

Safety and environmental

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Air Products is seeking an experienced Manager, Generated Gases Central Team to lead a multi-site operations group from its Allentown headquarters. You will supervise specialists and coordinate with PDO and sub-regional teams to keep gens gas plants flowing reliably and safely.

The role emphasizes 5+ years leadership in operations, strong technical acumen, and travel about 25% while driving continuous improvement and cost optimization across the central team.