Shift Engineer - Barauni

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities. Reimagine What’s Possible  POSITION SUMMARY Purpose Reporting to the Plant supervisor, shift engineer is responsible for the day-to-day shift operation of the SMR, and ASU based on the Air Products Barauni Plant and ensuring shift operating team to operate the plants safely and efficiently to facilitate attainment of the company’s standards. Reporting to the Plant Supervisor, the shift engineer will ensure the smooth and reliable operation of all the operating units of the of the Air Products Barauni facility. Nature and Scope The Barauni Plant is Air Products first fully owned and operated plant in India; it represents a significant investment and includes “State of the Art” technology which makes it advanced Hydrogen Plant within the Corporation. The plant consists of 2 main elements: - · 1 x Large Technip Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) with Air Products PSA’s for H2 purification. · An Air Products Air Separation Unit (ASU) Producing Nitrogen The customer is Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), Barauni refinery and the Air Products plant is located within the customer’s site. The products from the Air Products plants go directly to the customer as part of their refinery expansion. There is a high level of integration between IOCL and Air Products with respect to feedstock’s, products and utilities. The products are critical to refinery unit operations. The plants run on continuous basis and there is a strong emphasis of high reliability and high efficiency with contractual penalties against Air Products for underperformance. Air Products owns, operates and maintains Hydrogen Plants and ASU’s around the globe with Operations in over 50 countries, in excess of 100 hydrogen plants and 350 ASU’s. As such we have a wealth of expertise and have well established work processes in place for the reliable and efficient operation of our plants. Prior to facility operation the individual will have a period of training before plant commissioning begins, where they will have a role and involvement in the HYCO plant commissioning. DIMENSIONS Plant Products (Approximate): H2: 50 KTPA N2: 4,000 Nm3/h Number of Direct Reports (approximate): NIL. He shall be one of the 4 shift engineers who work in shifts of 8 hours duration. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES · A high regard for the safety of self and others. · Understand and have working knowledge of Air Products EH&S systems processes including emergency preparedness and incident management. · Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the plants in 8-hour shifts, including troubleshooting plant process problems, directly supervising daily plant activities and reporting to management. The Shift Engineer is required to be able to start up, shutdown or put the process into a safe position, escalating any abnormal situations to the Plant Supervisor. · Work alongside the Operations shift team to ensure adequate continuous operating cover, and additional cover if required in case of unplanned situations, even through commissioning, start up and operation, ensuring 24-hour stable operation. · Identifying maintenance concerns and bringing it to the notice of the Plant Management promptly and then coordinating with the maintenance team and implementing corrective / preventative measures. · Working with other Shift Engineers and support resources to achieve productivity targets. · Facilitate the use of, and compliance to AP EH&S standards such that EH&S performance continually improves, and performance targets are met. Issue permits,