Area Manager - Northeast

About the role

The Northeast Area Manager is a senior operations leadership role accountable for the safe, reliable, and cost-effective performance of plants across New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Quebec. The area includes air separation facilities, generated gas plants, and terminals.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible leadership for Environmental, Health, Safety, and Quality performance across the area, with clear accountability for risk reduction, compliance, and protection of people, communities, customers, and the environment.
• Own area operating performance by driving safe, reliable, and cost-effective production to meet customer supply commitments and business objectives.
• Partner with the Line Manager, Asset Managers, Account Managers, and central support teams to improve profitability, optimize assets, strengthen reliability, and align resources with regional priorities.
• Lead operational response during unplanned events, customer impacts, and business-critical issues by mobilizing resources, communicating effectively, and ensuring corrective actions are completed.
• Develop organizational capability by strengthening leadership depth, coaching teams, improving workforce engagement, and building a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Identify capital, maintenance, staffing, and productivity needs; support execution of the area capital plan; and deliver measurable improvements in cost, efficiency, reliability, and asset utilization.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with customers, community stakeholders, and internal partners to support supply reliability, business continuity, and long-term growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive operations, manufacturing, or plant leadership experience in a chemical plant, industrial gas facility, petroleum refinery, or similarly complex operating environment.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading supervisors, technical employees, operations teams, or multi-site organizations with accountability for safety, reliability, cost, and performance results.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across functions, align stakeholders, and translate business priorities into executable operating plans.
• Strong safety leadership background with experience building accountability, improving hazard recognition, reducing operational risk, and sustaining compliance expectations.
• Proven business acumen, including experience managing operating costs, productivity initiatives, maintenance priorities, asset utilization, and capital or reliability improvement plans.
• Experience leading during operational upsets, customer supply issues, emergency response situations, or other business-critical events requiring sound judgment and decisive action.
• Track record of developing leaders, strengthening team capability, coaching performance, and building an engaged culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with senior leaders, customers, community stakeholders, and internal business partners.

Benefits

At Air Products, we offer competitive pay and great benefits for our employees. This includes affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance available day one of employment, a 401(k) retirement savings plan with 100% vested company core and match, paid vacation, holidays, and sick time, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, flexible spending accounts, life insurance (AD&D), supplemental AD&D, employee assistance program (EAP), and more.

Pay

Competitive compensation package based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Full-time position.