Looking for Career Growth in Industrial Gases?  

Universal Industrial Gases is a well-established international supplier of industrial gases production plants, related equipment and services. We design and build new air separation plants and liquefiers, nitrogen plants and oxygen plants. We also relocate, recondition and upgrade used nitrogen, oxygen and air separation plants.

Universal Cryo Gas is a growing owner / operator of onsite nitrogen and oxygen production plants.  As growing businesses, both UIG and UCG are continually looking for additional qualified people.

Most of our employees live near our Home Office, which is located near Easton Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley, less that an hour and a half drive from New York City and Philadelphia.  Exceptions include regional sales representatives and some UCG plant operations support, and project and construction support personnel.

Consider Employment with UIG and UCG

We are a growing, relatively-small industrial gases company.  We have a lean and flexible workforce, with fewer overheads and less inertia than our larger competitors. We value depth and breadth of industrial gases industry experience.  We look for qualified people who are self-motivated and responsible, with good communications skills:

• Our key management team has more than 25 years of years of experience in the industrial gas industry  

• Our sales, marketing, project development, project management, and operations and maintenance activities are led by in-house personnel

• We value breadth of experience, which allows employees to "wear multiple hats" and to rapidly define optimal approaches to challenges

• We value depth of experience, which leads to rapid and cost-effective optimization of selected design and project execution approaches   

• Skills and resources which the company needs on a regular, but not full-time basis, such as stress analysis, controls design, and CAD, are typically sourced on a contract basis.  Our contractor base includes individuals and partner companies which specialize in providing industry-specific design, construction, operations and maintenance support services.

• Most of our current direct-hire employees began working for UIG and UCG as contract personnel. 

• It is the intention of UIG and UCG to grow the number of full-time employees, as justified by sustained and sustainable growth in business and project support activity levels. 

Whether you are seeking a full-time, direct-hire position, or you would like to contribute on an as-needed basis as an individual consultant/ contractor; if you have the background to effectively support the sale and installation of industrial gas plants, and their relocation, construction, start up, operation and maintenance, we would like to hear from you.  

Please send information on your background and your employment/ career objectives to our Career Center at the address shown below, attention "Employment"; or describe your background and career interests via email at

employment@uigi.com   

See our Job Postings page for information on positions we are most interested in filling at this time.

Overview of UIG & UCG Functional Areas and Activities

Team members work with potential customers to define their specific needs, desires and priorities; examine expected variations in operating conditions and delivery rates; and define one or more approaches to meeting those needs; selecting optimal combinations of process cycle and physical equipment. Selection criteria include comparisons of equipment and installation costs, operating costs, and compatibility with the required project schedule. Proposals are developed which summarize the selected technical approach, the proposed project management strategy, and proposed commercial terms.

The makeup of a particular project development team reflects the type of project, its anticipated complexity and timing. Project development teams typically include the sales manager who is working with the potential customer, plus, as required, process engineering and project engineering managers, and specialized design engineering and field services personnel. 

When UIG or UCG is selected as the preferred supplier, the project manager is charged with primary responsibility for managing expediting final design, procurement, fabrication, installation, commissioning and startup of the facility.

Initial design criteria and assumptions are reviewed as more information is developed.  The final process design is turned over to detailed design groups to develop final mechanical designs, procurement and fabrication specifications.

Field construction activities may be performed by UIG-supplied field forces or by qualified local contractors that have been selected and hired by plant purchasers.

UCG owned and operated onsite gas and liquid production plants require varying levels of support for operations and maintenance depending upon the type of plant, the complexity of the customer demand pattern and the impact of gas production plant outages on customer operations.  An optimal mix of resources is defined for each production site consisting of dedicated local plant operations and maintenance personnel, on-call specialized equipment and services providers, and home office technical, operational, maintenance and procurement support people.  

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