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. 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.

UIG designs and builds new air separation plants and liquefiers, nitrogen plants and oxygen plants. UIG also relocates, reconditions and upgrades used nitrogen, oxygen and air separation plants.

Both UIG and UCG utilize a mix of in-house resources and specialized contract resources to support the full array of their activities in a cost-effective and highly responsive fashion. Activity areas include project development, project management, process design, cold box design, plant layout, mechanical and civil design, electrical, controls and instrumentation design, procurement, construction, plant relocation and refurbishment, commissioning, start-up, operations and maintenance and customer plant support.

Potential employees and contractors with a proven record of accomplishment in the industrial gas industry are urged to contact UIG / UCG regarding current staffing needs and opportunities. Recent technical and engineering program graduates with an interest in building a skill base in air separation technologies may be considered for entry-level engineering and technical support roles which will offer opportunities for career growth on a path defined by individual interests and demonstrated performance. 

Our Home Offices are less that an hour and a half drive from New York City or Philadelphia, near Easton Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley.  Most of our employees live near our Home Office. Exceptions include regional sales representatives, some plant installation and commissioning specialists, and UCG plant operations personnel assigned to particular operating locations. We work with specialized engineering services contractors (and providers of goods and services) located in many parts of the United States and beyond. 

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:

• Each member of 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 individual contractors and companies which provide industry-specific design, construction, operations and maintenance support services.

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

• It is the intention of UIG and UCG to continue to expand our full-time employee and skilled contactor resource bases to reflect growth in plant supply project workload, growth in UCG onsite plant operations, and expanding customer plant support operations.  We will increase 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

Sales and proposal development team members work with potential customers to define project-specific needs and customer desires and priorities.  The team defines one or more approaches to meeting the range of flow rates and operating conditions which have been identified, then selects an optimal combination of process cycle and physical equipment. Selection criteria include comparisons of alternative equipment and their associated installation costs, variations in operating costs associated with the different configurations, and compatibility of candidate choices with the required project schedule. Proposal documentation summarizes the selected technical approach, the proposed project management strategy, and the proposed commercial terms associated with the sale of equipment and services, or the onsite sale of gas supply.

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. 

Following customer selection of UIG or UCG as the preferred supplier, the assigned project manager has the primary responsibility for managing final design, procurement, fabrication, expediting activities and quality inspections, equipment installation, and commissioning, plus plant staff training and startup. 

Initial design criteria and assumptions are reviewed as necessary, as more information is developed.  The final process design is turned over to detailed design groups to develop mechanical design, procurement and fabrication specifications for items to be supplied by UIG. 

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. In either case, UIG provides on-site supervision and support for critical activities taking place during construction, commissioning and startup. 

UCG owned and operated onsite gas supply plants require varying levels of support for operations and maintenance.  The number of local operations and maintenance people will depend 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.  Support is provided by dedicated local plant operations and maintenance personnel plus on-call specialized equipment and services providers; all of which are, in turn, supported by home office technical, operational, maintenance and procurement support people.  

"Tell us how you think you can contribute to UIG / UCG" 

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