Reliability Programs Analyst

Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

Subject Matter Expertise

• Has strong technical knowledge in rotating machinery equipment in ASU, Hydrogen/Syngas, and Cogen/Boiler technologies. Expectation to continue to develop technical awareness, if not independent competencies, in a minimum of two technical areas, with support from other Experts.

• Program Management experience, including the ability to identify and execute high impact projects, assess impact and align key stakeholders to receive funding with assurance of delivering results for scope defined.

• Strong understanding of Group KPIs and Metrics for tracking Reliability performance.

Strategy

• Work effectively with the Group Industrial Direction Organization and other E2E Organizations to share best practices and leverage global support as we continue to use PRISM software to detect reliability opportunities

• Work in close collaboration with the Industrial Direction Rotating Machinery CTE group to support the implementation of any new monitoring for critical assets and equipment and ensure the initiative matches the organizational needs.

• Actively participate in a leadership role within either a KNOE WG or WW COP WG.

Monitoring

• Proactively identify alerts related to SIO.Predict in PRISM or other PI tools; Lead or advise relevant parties to take proper and timely actions to ensure operational reliability.

• Provide back testing support on major trips to help troubleshoot improvement opportunities for monitoring key elements within the tool

• Lead or advise relevant parties to take proper and timely actions to address the mechanical constraints related to SIO.Optim (network flexibility)

Predict Tool Maintenance and Continued Strategy

• Assist in valorizing reliability assists generated by Predict tools.

• Be the technical leader for E2E /Operations personnel regarding reliability topics that can be addressed by data analytics

• Assist in the maintenance of KPIs to ensure the utilization and effectiveness of SIO.Predict.

• Build value/acceptance of Predict applications and tools within Operations, Zone and Plant Management and Operators, through discussion, training and demonstrated success.

• Continue to develop practical ASU, HYCO and COGEN process experience and understanding of the pipeline network.

• Ensure proper documentation when executing model deployment; including but not limited to training internal E2E personnel and operations.

• Foster the relationship with operations teams to ensure buy-in of the programs and be able to extract new opportunities for improvement

• Participate actively in the weekly/monthly meetings with Plant Operations and Reliability Engineers with regards to alerts and opportunities.

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering required

• 5+ years of process industry experience in either ASU, Hydrogen/Syngas, or Cogen/Boiler technologies.

• Internal Candidates: Enrollment or Graduation from LEAP is preferred.

• Internal Candidates: Members of the Local Technical Community Leaders (TCL) Program are highly preferred.

• Familiarity or strong interest in mastery of data science and statistics knowledge (regressions, linear programming, machine learning)

• Familiarity with analysis and optimization tools (PRISM, Optim, AVEVA PI System ...)

• Experience in documentation including write-up of project proposals, estimates

• Knowledge of Google Office Productivity Suite (Drive, Doc, Sheets, etc).

• Strong communication and networking skills, written and oral. Able to effectively interface with other engineering disciplines/organizations, plant operations, Group technology experts, and senior management.

• Strong analytical and organizational skills, able to multi-task with changing priorities according to operational requirements.

• Solid project management skills

• Travel up to 25% to field locations throughout the NAM cluster for TARs and Operations meetings.

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.