Plant Operator

**Company presentation**
Air Liquide is part of the Air Liquide Group, the world leader in gases for industry, health and the environment, with over 50, 000 employees in 80 countries. Air Liquide Canada employs over 1,500 employees and is present in the country’s main industrial regions from coast to coast. Present in 16 main industries; (Aeronautics, Automotive, Beverages, Chemicals, Constructions, Craftsmen, Environment, Food, Metal Fabrication, Metals, Mining, Oil and Gas Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology, Pulp and Paper, Renewable Energy and Research and Analysis) you can be sure that the work will always be plentiful.

**Entity and activity description**
The main object and purpose of this position consist in testing and maintaining cylinders in a safe manner in order to satisfy customer expectations and improve quality of operations, all while promoting ALC’s quality and safety objectives.

Union Base Salary

Start: $ 18.23

After 1 year: $ 20.66

After 2 years: $24.30

**Missions and Responsibilities** 1**. **Assures cylinders testing**:Removes valves. Uses fibre optic light to inspect the interior. Fills cylinders with water. Weights cylinders, checks expansion charts. Attaches hydrostatic test head to the cylinder. Operates hoist to position the cylinder into the test jacket, enters data into the control console and tests cylinder. Marks test date and moves cylinders to designated areas.

**2**.** Ensures cylinders maintenance**:Operates steamer to dry cylinders and removes old labels. Install valves. Replaces defective safeties, stems, packing nuts and handles on cylinder valves. Prepares cylinders for shot blasting by scraping of decals. Inspects cylinders that have been shot blasted and segregates damaged cylinders for repair or scrap. Paints cylinders and applies decals and markings. Cleans and maintains spray gun and equipment in good working order. Maintains a clean work area as well as any other area which may be assigned.

**3**. **Quality / Safety**: Understands and implements required procedures (Standard Operating Instructions) as established in the relevant Quality Manual. Verifies equipment for accuracy with calibrated cylinder and pressure gauge daily. Actively promotes ALC safety and quality objectives. Knows and respects all procedures as indicated in the ALC Quality Manual. Make sure the appropriate corrective and preventive measures are in place in order to answer customer complaints.

**4**. **Prepares reports**:Finds information in the technical reference manual and prepares production reports on the number of cylinders painted, the number of valves repaired, the number of cylinders stained and cleaned and the number of defects. Provides this information to the Plant Manager.

**5**. **Process improvement**:Works with his/her team as well as with cross-functional teams to continuously improve the work process. Continuously analyses the functioning of the activity, identifies causes of dysfunction and proposes corrective measures accordingly.

**Competencies and Profile**
- **Diploma**: High School Diploma and or combination of education and experience in compressed gases. WMIS & TDG certificate (asset)
- **Forklift experience **(asset)
- **Knowledge**: Composition of different gases, good reading comprehension, MS Office would be an asset

**1. Team Player**: Shares knowledge and experience, cooperates and makes self available, listens, gathers information, takes into consideration the needs, ideas, opinions of others.

**2. Initiative**:Initiates actions, ideas or solutions spontaneously on his own, undertakes action without waiting directives, uses all of his/her resources before asking for help, establishes his/her performance objectives and deadlines.

**3. Planning skills**:Defines objectives and the means to achieve them, determines all required resources, anticipates future situations and establishes work plans, efficiently allocates or makes use of available resources, acts according to plans and establishes priorities, uses efficient methods, systems and work tools.

**5. Flexibility**: Adapts his behaviour to different types of situations, is open to new ideas, accepts changes and conforms to them, ability to remain highly effective in changing situations, proposes new action plan when situation changes.

**Additional information**
- At Air Liquide, we value the health and safety of our customers, patients and employees. As such, we strongly encourage everyone to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and all future employees will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID - 19 and to maintain such fully vaccinated status.

**At Air Liquide all employees are required to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status. Also as a condition of employment, all future employees will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID -19 and to maintain such fully vaccinated status.

Job Reference: CA03418