Air Separation Unit Specialist

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Providing numerous products and services to industries around the globe, from coatings to plastics to paper and other end-uses, we invest in employee development and offer a wide range of career opportunities, offering everyone the chance to broaden their experience and build a professionally rewarding career.

The Air Separation Unit (ASU) Specialist provides day-to-day technical leadership for a cryogenic Air Separation Unit.

This role integrates operations support including guaranteeing product purity (Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Argon), process troubleshooting, procedure development, training, and maintenance strategy oversight to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable plant performance.

It is classified as a Safety Critical role.

Key activities include:

• Adhere to INEOS Pigments’ 20 principles of process and Behavioral Safety and Life Saving Rules
• Provide day-to-day technical support for ASU operations (O ₂ , N ₂ , Ar production)
• Troubleshoot complex, non-routine system process fluctuations and manage swift, safe recovery actions during unplanned shutdowns
• Maximize plant reliability and efficiency by continuously fine-tuning process variables such as flow rates, temperatures, and pressures.
• Support and lead derime and cool-down, startups, shutdowns, and load changes
• Optimize plant performance, energy efficiency, and product recovery
• Develop and maintain operating procedures and best practices
• Lead operator training, qualification, and knowledge transfer
• Standardize startup/shutdown and upset recovery procedures
• Define maintenance strategies for critical ASU equipment (pumps, centrifugal compressors, expanders, product purification units, cryogenic distillation columns, valves)
• Identify and implement reliability and efficiency improvements
• Analyze plant data and trends to prevent failures and optimize performance
• Support debottlenecking and capacity improvements
• Support planning and execution of outages and turnarounds
• Lead or participate in RCFA, FMEA, and reliability improvement initiatives
• Partner with maintenance teams to prioritize work and improve equipment performance