HYCO Shift supervisor

Role Overview

HYCO Shift Supervisor at Air Products. The role manages day-to-day operations of hydrogen production facilities at BHIG (Blue Hydrogen Industrial Group) locations.

Company Overview

Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company founded in 1940. The company has a proud history of innovation and operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship.

Role Purpose

The HYCO Operations Shift Supervisor is accountable for managing and supervising the operations shift team, including shift leads and operators, for BHIG facilities that include a Hydrogen Steam Methane Reformer, a CO2 Removal Unit & CO2 Compression, HPSA, Membrane Unit, related Utilities, and pipeline network. The role ensures safe and reliable plant operations, achieves daily customer production targets, and interfaces with Maintenance and Engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Safety

• Provide and maintain a safe work environment.
• Demonstrate leadership with all company and industry safe work processes to prevent injuries.
• Ensure the safety of all operations personnel by utilizing the BHIG Basic Safety Practice program, which includes Safety Work Permits, LOTO, and Confined Space procedures.
• Facilitate planning, organizing, auditing, and follow-up to build BHIG safety culture.
• Participate in and lead incident investigations and Root Cause Analysis.
• Identify and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Personally inspect all Active Leaks each shift and update any degradation in reports.

Technical Operations

• Provide direction to the staff of the HYCO Steam Methane Reformer unit and ancillary equipment as prescribed by Work Instruction Procedures.
• Operate the unit when required.
• Provide direction and 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, and lead the team during startups, shutdowns, and emergencies.
• 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 profitability.
• Work closely with Shift Team, Assistant Site Manager, Site Manager, Maintenance Team, and Engineering team to ensure production targets are achieved, plant running at optimum energy efficiency, and safe operations.

Compliance & Environmental

• Ensure all Environmental Regulatory requirements are met.
• Ensure compliance to all CM and PM tasks.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of local environmental and health and safety requirements.
• Fully accountable to ensure logs (both personal and operator logs) are accurate and compliant with published matrix.
• View all IOW Event Manager Logs daily and ensure proper actions have been taken.
• Audit, review, and assign action each day for logs from operators.
• Implement issued mitigation plans for all Emergency and High-level (Safety Risk/Environment Risk/Availability Risk/Utilization Risk/Energy Risk) log items.

Planning & Coordination

• Support and prepare for Shutdown Planning and Turnaround Planning.
• Complete the team's Work List on daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis.
• Provide operations input for scheduled outages.
• 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.

Stakeholder Management & Customer Service

• Ensure close communication with feedstock and utilities suppliers to ensure daily operational targets are achieved.
• Ensure BHIG standards and global best practices for EH&S, productivity, reliability, quality, and overall customer service are met.
• Meet the customer's satisfaction on safety, reliability, product quality, and flexibility on product supply.
• Ability to communicate and manage customer interactions on a daily basis.
• Maintain a relationship with the customer's counterparts from other Refinery Units where APQ either receives Feedstock, Utilities & Power or supplies Hydrogen and Steam through Refinery Shift Superintendent to ensure alignment of expectations for APQ and the customer's current and future product demand.

Team Development & Leadership

• Build 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 team, customer, and employee-focused approaches.
• Foster open communication, performance-driven, and results-oriented culture.
• Establish and maintain close working relationships with Engineering and Maintenance personnel to continuously monitor and evaluate plant systems and equipment through a Plant Process Advisory Model.
• Promote a 'one team' environment.

Continuous Improvement

• Facilitate attainment of operations excellence and customer satisfaction via operations productivity, reliability, quality, cost reduction, services, continuous improvements, and meeting of budgets.
• Ensure BHIG standards and global best practices are met.

Qualifications & Experience

• 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.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience with 4 or more years in line supervision of process operations roles.
• Demonstrated HYCO knowledge a plus.
• Proven coordination experience in a multi-team environment which includes operations, engineering, and maintenance.

Skills & Competencies

• Wide technical knowledge in operations, engineering, and maintenance activities.
• Good leadership, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively throughout all levels within the organization and externally.
• Proficiency in English speaking and writing.
• Ability to engage in plant operations when required.

Additional Information

• The HYCO Operations Supervisor is an extension of the operating team and is expected to engage in plant operations when required.
• Expectation based on level of experience for the operations team to achieve a 'Level 1 / Board Level' status within 2 to 4 years.
• Operators will be evaluated during the training period and placed at the level of competence accordingly.
• All operations team members are considered field and board operators when Level 1 is achieved.
• Leadership positions are expected to follow the progression process.