Experienced person required to manage new air separation plant producing oxygen and nitrogen located within and serving a refinery.  Preferred candidates will have operations / maintenance experience in an air separation plant, chemical processing plant, or refinery, plus good communication skills, and a proactive and responsible team approach to problem solving. 

Following air separation plant startup, the position will be part time - requiring short periodic visits to the site for equipment checks, minor maintenance and liaison with customer operations and scheduling personnel. The air separation plant will operate in a highly automated, "unattended" mode under normal circumstances. 

Air separation plant site management / operations personnel will be subject to 24-hour call out to respond to unusual operating  conditions.  Remote operations monitoring and control capabilities via PC will minimize the necessity for plant visits to check on and modify operating conditions. UCG home office personnel will assist with diagnosis of operating issues, procurement of specialty items, and scheduling and execution of major maintenance activities. 

The site manager will have lead responsibility for ensuring that the plant is operated and maintained in a manner in compliance with UCG and industry safety standards and procedures, meeting product specifications and customer volume requirements, and attaining and sustaining a high level of plant on-stream / availability. 

Site operations personnel will coordinate their schedules to ensure all plant inspections and routine maintenance actions are performed as scheduled, and duly recorded in plant logs.  At least one local operator must be on call at all times to respond to power outages or other plant production disruptions. Operators will be responsible for calling out other local UCG employees and local maintenance resources as required to maintain safe, reliable and on-spec plant operations.

Candidate selection scheduled for September 2009 - to accommodate pre-startup training.