Superintendent - Analytical

Linde•Phoenix, AZ

30d•Onsite

About The Position

This role oversees operations at an Air Separation Gas Plant that supplies high-purity gases to a semiconductor customer. The Superintendent - Analytical will lead, coach, and develop analytical, instrumentation, electrical, and operations technicians. They will schedule and assign work to ensure adequate coverage and operational continuity, while promoting a strong culture of safety, compliance, accountability, and operational excellence. The position involves coordinating daily activities across the control room, field operations, and the Customer Use Point building to ensure production goals are met while maintaining efficiency, reliability, and gas purity standards. The role requires reviewing plant performance, operating trends, and equipment status to optimize operations, and leading troubleshooting efforts for plant upsets, equipment failures, and customer supply issues. Additionally, the Superintendent will oversee analytical equipment performance at the Customer Use Point building to ensure semiconductor-grade requirements are met, serve as a liaison between plant operations, engineering, and customer technical teams, and support audits, quality reviews, and incident investigations with customer representatives. Ensuring compliance with safety standards, environmental permits, quality requirements, and company policies is crucial, as is maintaining accurate QA, PSI, variance, maintenance, and compliance records. Collaboration with maintenance, reliability, and engineering teams for planning outages, inspections, and projects is also a key responsibility.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in engineering with three to five years of experience, or five to ten years of relevant plant operations experience with proven management capability
Strong knowledge of analyzers and sampling systems, control room systems (DCS/PLC), and field operations
Knowledge of air separation or similar complex process control systems, industrial instrumentation, and general maintenance of compressors and related equipment
Experience with quality systems, safety programs and regulatory compliance
Demonstrated ability to lead troubleshooting and problem-solving activities
Strong organizational and time management skills
Ability to read and revise engineering drawings such as piping and instrumentation diagrams and schematic wiring diagrams
Proven ability to supervise, mentor, and develop a multi-skilled workforce
Strong communication skills to coordinate with internal teams, contractors and customers
Ability to work in a 24/7 production environment with occasional off-hours support as required
Proficient with computers, Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft applications, process control systems, and maintenance and compliance documentation
Recognized for being dependable, honest, safety‑focused, and self‑directed with the ability to plan work, manage projects, and maintain high standards of quality control

Responsibilities

Oversee operations at an Air Separation Gas Plant supplying high-purity gases to a semiconductor customer
Lead, coach, and develop analytical, instrumentation, electrical, and operations Technicians
Schedule and assign work to ensure adequate coverage and operational continuity
Promote a strong culture of safety, compliance, accountability, and operational excellence
Coordinate daily activities across the control room, field operations, and Customer Use Point building
Ensure production goals are met while maintaining efficiency, reliability, and gas purity standards
Review plant performance, operating trends, and equipment status to optimize operations
Lead troubleshooting efforts for plant upsets, equipment failures, and customer supply issues
Oversee analytical equipment performance at the Customer Use Point building and ensure semiconductor-grade requirements are met
Serve as a liaison between plant operations, engineering, and customer technical teams
Support audits, quality reviews, and incident investigations with customer representatives
Ensure compliance with safety standards, environmental permits, quality requirements, and company policies
Maintain accurate QA, PSI, variance, maintenance, and compliance records
Collaborate with maintenance, reliability, and engineering teams to plan outages, inspections, and projects