Plant Engineer

Location: Freeport, TX, United States | Req: req33691

About the role

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a process expert in air separation, trace gas measurement equipment, and gas distribution systems.
• Troubleshoot operational issues using structured root cause assessment methods to ensure safe and reliable performance.
• Provide training to junior employees and guide plant technicians through complex operational tasks while supporting site management with more complex or unusual assignments.
• Develop comprehensive project plans for maintenance overhaul objectives and manage execution from planning through completion, including project costs, schedules, and cost of ownership for new systems while serving as a leadership interface to the customer.
• Apply Project Management Institute principles to daily task execution and tool development while championing new ideas, innovative approaches, and productivity-enhancing solutions, including effective presentations to leaders and internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain expert knowledge of new technologies, support production KPIs, monitor product purity, inventory, and other process indications for abnormalities, and take a leadership role in the creation and oversight of productivity optimization.
• Strictly adhere to company safety work policies and operating practices, report safety incidents and near misses, support a positive safety culture, and provide occasional domestic travel and on-call support as required.

Requirements

• Degreed engineering professional with a Bachelor or Master degree in Engineering and at least four (4) years of experience in process engineering and project management.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills that strengthen collaboration across operational and technical teams.
• Proficient with Microsoft products and comfortable learning enterprise systems such as JD Edwards.
• Strong technical capability with familiarity in programmable logic controllers, distributed control systems, and supervisory control and data acquisition systems.
• Able to travel up to five (5) percent of the time to support project tasks and construction while maintaining readiness to climb ladders and work at heights.
• Value Linde’s inclusive, safety-focused, customer-oriented culture and contribute positively by welcoming diverse perspectives and modeling integrity in all interactions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package.
• Access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance.
• Paid holidays and vacation.
• 401(k) matching.
• Pension benefits.
• Employee discount program.
• Opportunities for educational and professional growth.