LOCATION- Newport, DE

The Global Markets & Technologies (GM&T) World Business Unit delivers technological solutions (molecules, equipment and services) to support the new markets of energy transition, maritime logistics and scientific exploration, in order to accelerate Air Liquide sustainable growth. To support the energy transition, GM&T brings environmentally friendly solutions to the clean energy market with hydrogen energy and Bio-Natural Gas for vehicles, refrigerated transport using nitrogen, but also the treatment and injection of Biogas into the energy grid as a local power source.

The Process Engineer works independently or in conjunction with others to analyze performance, identify key improvement opportunities, develop action plans, and execute improvement in support of achieving the organization’s objectives in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

• Salary Range in Newport, DE is $90k - $105k with an additional annual target incentive of 9% based on performance

Responsibilities

Process Engineering

• Recommend and implement solutions to drive continuous improvement
• Design and conduct process improvement tests in the plant
• Monitor, analyze and report on process performance through trends of Key Process Input and Output Variables
• Ensure compliance with applicable engineering standards and quality system requirements
• Own selected work instructions, ensuring clarity and effectiveness
• Lead and participate in troubleshooting, as needed
• Lead problem solving for issues escalated from the operators. Analyze to determine possible causes, act to verify the cause, provide immediate solutions, and implement preventive actions to make the problem disappear forever.
• Execute assigned continuous improvement projects that drive quality, delivery, or cost objectives. Develop and own action plans to deliver performance results
• Assist in the training of operators, enabling them to generate improvement ideas and to sustain the improvements
• Participate in the design, debug, and commissioning of capital projects.
• Interface and maintain relationships with the Operations, Maintenance, Technology, HSE, ATS, and R&D functions

Product Engineering

• Monitor and analyze performance data for selected product lines
• Identify opportunities for prevention and for improvement through analyses, study, observation, and operator interactions
• Lead and participate in Incident Investigations for low yield, high scrap, rework, or job variance issues
• Report on selected product line performance frequently in morning production meetings and monthly engineering meetings
• Will work on US Government projects

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• 2 years of manufacturing experience
• Basic knowledge of SPC methodologies
• Working knowledge of 8D problem solving methodology
• US Citizenship required

Preferred

• Experience using statistical analysis software (JMP, Minitab, MATLAB, etc)
• Experience with Google applications (Slides, Sheets, Docs, Drive, Gmail)
• Six-sigma Green belt or Black belt certification

Benefits offered:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
• For more information you can go to Air Liquide Benefit Offerings

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.