Senior Plant Engineer

• Salary Range: $100,000 - $120,000 
• Location: Hamilton, ON
• Ability to work on-call nights, weekends, and holidays as required
• Occasional travel

Job Summary

The primary objective and goal of this position is to provide technical support to operational teams by suggesting opportunities for process improvement as well as refurbishment projects in production plants, while ensuring safety, reliability, and efficiency of equipment. The incumbent ensures that projects are properly executed to meet production objectives, while promoting ALC's quality and safety objectives. Additionally, this role encompasses Capital Project Manager responsibilities, leading end-to-end capital expenditure (CAPEX) projects, managing project budgets, timelines, and cross-functional project teams from initiation to closeout.

Key Responsibilities

• Solves operating problems, assists in plant start-up and optimization, and implements planning and control techniques. Helps identify production problems, develop specifications for production procedures, revise existing procedures, and keep employees informed of company procedures and policies.
• Anticipates production needs and identifies, recommends, and implements changes in plant processes, equipment, and systems to improve plant safety, reliability, and efficiency. Analyzes new equipment, optimizes resource utilization, and drives individual contributions and new working methods.
• Evaluates industrial performance and proposes objectives based on production priorities and direction, ensuring project success and sustainable results. Evaluates and improves performance in safety, environment, production quality, profitability, equipment reliability, production capacity, and process improvement.
• Manages local plant projects and acts as a facilitator for major projects managed by the project team, following up from planning to commissioning using standard project management processes. Ensures Management of Change (MOC) processes and documentation control are properly executed.
• Manages capital project portfolios and budgets, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget. Leads procurement, vendor negotiations, engineering design reviews, contractor oversight, and financial reporting for capital investments.
• Partners with immediate and cross-functional teams to continuously improve work processes, analyze business operations, identify root causes of malfunctions, and propose effective corrective measures.
• Contributes to the definition and implementation of safety and quality recommendations and procedures. Coaches and teaches others on risk management, performs audits, and conducts preventive actions. Identifies potential risks, implements corrective actions, ensures regulatory compliance and deadlines are met, and integrates risk prevention early into the design stage to ensure plant site safety and quality.
• Upholds safety as our highest priority. Safety procedures and guidelines must be adhered to at all times, including wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) such as hard hats, eye protection, hearing protection, flame-retardant clothing, and safety shoes throughout every work shift within various areas of the facility (including working at heights, confined spaces, and/or in loud and hot spaces).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering degree (preferably in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering).
• 7–10 years of engineering experience (preferably in an industrial plant setting).
• 2–5 years of Project Management experience.
• Ability to lift, move, or carry heavy weighted equipment (>50 lbs), tools, and valves, and work in physically challenging positions as required.
• Agility, manual dexterity, and reaction time to quickly navigate plant environments (climbing stairs/ladders, moving around barriers) and respond to process upsets.

Preferred Qualifications

• P.Eng registration and PMP certification.
• Demonstrated ability to model core behavioral competencies (Be Act Engage), including promoting safety, committing to AL's performance and responsibility, thinking innovatively, anticipating and dealing with changing environments, remaining solution-focused, communicating with impact, and managing personal efficiency and competing priorities.
• Ability to communicate technical and complex problems effectively to various stakeholders.
• Ability to read and interpret piping isometrics, P&IDs, and electrical schematics.
• Ability to identify and explain hazards present in an energy isolation procedure.
• Proficient knowledge and understanding of control panel operations, operator interface consoles, and process control systems.

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.