Operations Materials Support Specialist

: US-AZ-Residence, US-PA-Allentown, US-TX-Houston, US-TX-Residence

and Qualifications

At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what's possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world's most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse, and most profitable industrial gas company in the world!

Reimagine What's Possible

Roles and Responsibilities We are seeking an Operations Materials Support Specialist within our Global Industrial Gases team located at Allentown, PA or Residence Based. This position supports 24/7 plant operations and will require the ability to travel - up to 10% per year. This position is responsible for Materials Management Americas support of Industrial Gas Operations' Americas plants. The overall objective is to provide 24 hour/day, 7 day/week spare parts support to operations and maintenance to enable optimum plant operations on-stream hours.

Required Skills / Abilities:

Main areas of responsibility include:

• Investigate and define possible solutions. Analyze solution options with available data
• Support plant maintenance outages by sourcing required spare parts included in SAP work orders while minimizing exposure to operating plant fleet
• Replenish spare parts consumed at plants by using SAP inventory management and requisitioning functionality. This includes technical research, analysis, and validation with technical teams to satisfy plant requirements
• Management of the Capital Spare Repair Process (including expediting repairs with vendors)
• Create operating cost savings by making decisions on parts requisitions and by optimizing the use of part repairs
• Minimize investment in inventory while maintaining contractual reliability by successfully applying SAP inventory functions and logistics skills and understanding IG site critical parts requirements and Operations Sparing Strategies
• Create and improve Maintenance Bill of Materials
• Find opportunities to improve Strategies based on current business climate and maintenance support model
• Work with technical disciplines to identify spare parts replacement for obsolete items
• Conduct annual spares inventory at third party locations and support plant spare parts cycle counts
• Setup spare parts warehousing at new and existing plant sites

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED
• 2+ years' experience in supply chain or operations support

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP experience, with materials
• Degree in Business or Supply Chain

We are the world's largest hydrogen producer with over 80 years of industrial gas experience. We are hydrogen experts delivering safe, end-to-end solutions, investing in real, clean energy projects at scale, and driving the industry forward to generate a cleaner future. At Air Products, we work in an environment where we put safety first, diversity is essential, inclusion is our culture, and each person knows they belong and matter. To learn more, visit About Air Products. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation, affordable medical, dental, life insurance, retirement plans/401(k), and sick time. You will be eligible for benefits and also be 100% vested in your retirement benefits on your first day of employment! We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (U.S.). You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status. Air Products is committed to working with and providing a reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail us at [email protected]. General application status inquiries are not answered by this mailbox rather you'll receive an e-mail directly from our Career Center and/or the Talent Acquisition Specialist. #LI-Remote #LI-Hybrid #LI-Onsite

Req No.

48003BR

Employment Status

Full Time

Organization

Global Industrial Gases

Business Sector / Division

Industrial Gases Americas

Region

North America

Country

United States