Global Engineering and Manufacturing

Our Global Engineering & Manufacturing organization employs more than 3,000 employees worldwide with key engineering centers in Allentown, USA; Hersham, England; Shanghai, China; and Pune, India. Our employees work on a range of technologies for global markets, from standard products such as membranes and liquefiers, through to large-scale, complex air separation plants, hydrocarbon, and energy plants.

Air Products employs engineers with a wide range of experience from entry level trainees and graduates to Chartered Engineers and Fellows.

If you are safety and quality focused, committed to your personal development and willing to learn about new and unfamiliar technologies, then career path might be the perfect fit for you. We employ engineers with a wide range of experience from entry level trainees and graduates to Chartered Engineers and Fellows in the following areas:  

Product and project development: These customer-facing roles work closely with our business partners to define and develop proposals for clients.

Project technicians: The team is responsible for all aspects of planning, organizing, controlling, and executing projects.

Process technology: This group works with Air Products’ air and HyCO separation core technologies, including detailed process design of large process equipment, distillation columns, heat exchangers, storage tanks and machines.

Machinery: The team is responsible for all aspects of machinery engineering design, installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, maintenance and optimizations of machinery, including all types of compressors, steam turbines, cryogenic expanders/companders, blowers, gearboxes, cooling towers, fin-fans and all types of pumps including cryogenic pumps.

Design: The Design group provides all aspects of plant design including civils and structures, piping, stress, electrical engineering and design, instrument design, vessels engineering and design, and mechanical systems engineering. In addition, the team provides expertise in support of construction, start-up and troubleshooting activities.

Construction and estimating: The site-based and office-based construction team is responsible for all aspects of delivering a construction project to contractual technical, budget, schedule and quality requirements.

Start-Up: Our site-based and office-based start-up group commissions our plants. Previous experience in diverse technologies would be beneficial for these roles.

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