Operations Support Engineer

Linde Inc. Operations Support Engineer The Woodlands, TX, United States | req28569 What you will enjoy doing* Provide expert monitoring, troubleshooting, and analysis to resolve technical issues across the full Helium and Rare Gases production process, ensuring safe, reliable, and optimized plant performance. Advise on process design, equipment selection, engineering specifications, and applicable industry and internal standards. Identify performance gaps or emerging risks and recommend corrective actions, processimprovements, or design changes. Maintain and update internal engineering, quality, and operational standards based on industry developments, lessons learned, safety events, and new technologies. Ensure alignment of internal guidelines with evolving regulatory requirements and best practices. Lead or contribute to technical reviews, hazard assessments, and improvement initiatives to support operational excellence. Support Linde Engineering and Global Helium & Rare Gases teams throughout project development and execution by: Providing accurate and complete process information. Sharing internal lessons learned and operational insights. Ensuring key technical requirements, specifications, and documentation are delivered on time. Participate in design reviews, commissioning activities, and readiness assessments to ensure new assets meet safety, quality, and performance expectations. Actively support He & RG facilities with equipment troubleshooting, maintenance planning, turnaround execution, and spare-parts strategy development. Collaborate with operations teams to improve equipment reliability, extend asset life, and minimize unplanned outages. Coordinate with central groups and suppliers to address technical issues related to critical equipment and process systems. Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of SHEQ guidelines and standards across Helium and Rare Gases operations. Assist sites in understanding and applying safety, quality, and compliance requirements in daily operations. Participate in internal and external SHEQ assessments, audits, and compliance reviews; follow up to ensure corrective actions are completed. Promote a culture of safety, quality, and regulatory compliance in all activities and interactions. What makes you great Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline. You have 5+ years of experience in process engineering, operations support, or technical roles within industrial gases, petrochemicals, LNG, cryogenics, or specialty gas processing environments. Demonstrated expertise in process design, troubleshooting, and optimization across complex, continuous production facilities. You have a strong working knowledge of air separation, HyCO or Helium & Rare Gases processing preferred, including purification, liquefaction, compression, cryogenic systems, and product quality control, is considered a plus for the candidate. Proven experience supporting operating plants, including reliability improvement, maintenance planning, turnarounds, and management of unplanned outages. You have a solid understanding of SHEQ principles, including participation in hazard analyses (HAZOP, LOPA), incident investigations, audits, and compliance reviews Experience contributing to or maintaining engineering standards, specifications, and internal technical guidelines. Ability to effectively support capital projects, including design reviews, commissioning, startup readiness, and interface with engineering contractors and vendors. You have a strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to identify risks and recommend practical corrective actions. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to advise operations, maintenance, engineering, and leadership teams across multiple sites. Why you will love working with us Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions. What we offer you! At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you're looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless. Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, 401(k) matching, pension benefits, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Additional compensation may vary depending on the position and organizational level. Build your future with us while making an impact every day! Have we inspired you? Let's talk about it We are looking forward to receiving your complete application. Linde thanks all applicants in advance for their interest; however, only those applicants who are being considered for an interview will be contacted. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law. Linde Inc. acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development. *The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. 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