Production Supervisor

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 

Demonstrate leadership in worker safety rate, environmental compliance, process safety to meet corporate audit requirements.

• Support deployment of Active Caring Safety framework.
• Drive SZ operation team visibility and commitment to BSP activities and reporting.
• Support appropriate deployment of wellness and fitness for duty programs as per regional plan.
• Support and deploy improvements to core safety systems (Confined Space Entry, LOTO processes etc)
• Identify, report and resolve Leading Indicators (BSP, audits, OPHR findings, MI activities) by eliminating the risk situation hence prevent incidents from occurring
• Continue to report, investigate and fix the Lagging Indicators (near miss/incidents reporting) promptly and completely so as to prevent repeat of similar incidents in future.
• Sustain Environmental performance through reaching reduction goals, deploying compliance system and ensuring permits are in place.
• Collaborate with the Permitting team to obtain all required government operating permits for each new and existing AP facilities.
• Collaborate with EH&S to audit the spill prevention plan at each site.
• Review Process Safety Incidents and implement system wide improvements
• Close all OPHR recommendations per corporate guidelines in time.
• Continue deployment of MI programs (CSS White Book, Pressure Systems) per plan.
• MI tasks completed on schedule or extensions approved via MOC.
• Continue to improve processes for keeping Process Safety Information (PSI) updated:
• Follow up P&ID management process and make sure all sites P&ID updated timely.
• Collaborate with EH&S to develop and deploy process safety training per Asia PS training matrix.
• Lead and support related department to apply or renewal operational permitting certificates.

Improve Community relations action planning, emergency response.

• Work with EH&S to assess Site Emergency Plans at facilities with potential off-site impact. Ensure that off-site scenarios and their mitigation are adequately addressed.

• Learn and familiar with company emergency response procedure and policy.
• Interaction and set up good communication with local authority bureau.

Achieve productivity and asset management improvement target via

• Focus on reducing discretionary expenditure.

• Find cost reduction opportunity on external spending such as purchased material & services.
• Focus on optimal operating conditions for reduced volumes needs.
• Minimize/Eliminate Overtime.
• Accelerate productivity projects with other department support.

• Focus on our core activities only (safety, productivity, ops excellence, customer satisfaction)

Support plant maintenance

• Review TAR frequency and extend cycle without affecting reliability & Safety.
• Develop all sites punch list with maintenance team to execute maintenance during unscheduled S/D to minimize or eliminate TAR time.
• Participate in plant FMEA.

• Assess strengths and weaknesses of reports and suggests training plans in consultation with HR department. HR is responsible for confirming the proposals and setting up the programs.
• Offers on the job training and coaching through MyLearning; helps reports whenever necessary.
• Set up annual job-related and competence-development-related targets with all reports.
• Follow up on progress against targets and makes final annual performance appraisal of reports.

Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.