Operations Manager - La Porte Area

Job Overview:

This Operations Manager has responsibility for directing, planning, and leading operations in the assigned Region for Linde Services, Inc. (LSI) to ensure the required business objectives and strategies are met in a safe and environmentally compliant manner.

This position works closely with and reports to the LSI Director of Operations. This position also works closely with the LSI Sales Director and other LSI management to achieve joint objectives, and has frequent interactions with their counterparts within LSI, Linde Operations, and Linde Logistics. Specific scope and responsibilities for this position are:

Scope:

This Operations Manager defines the priorities, plans, and objectives for LSI operations for all LSI businesses within the Southern Region of the United States. This seasoned individual has expert knowledge of principles and practices within operations, and an understanding of business strategies and culture, and works to achieve results and drive performance on a regional and national basis.

Responsibilities:

• Directs a group of employees and/or consultants to flawlessly execute operational requirements, change efforts, and/or process improvements.
• Creates and manages complex operational plans that result in the accomplishment of business objectives.
• Directs and leads complex or unusual assignments across functional area.
• Act as primary interface, coordinating and facilitating activities and commitments with other departments, businesses, and/or functions.
• Ensure response strategies are appropriately formulated, and communication plans are provided.
• Establishes goals, promotes decision-making, delegates as appropriate and overcomes obstacles.
• Takes a leadership role in creation and oversight of productivity optimization.
• Works with strategic independence, conferring with Senior and Executive Management on more complex or unusual assignments.
• Monitors external/internal trends, develops procedures, makes judgments, and takes organization-wide actions that set precedents.
• Focuses on planning and execution for current year and develops long term strategies for superior operational and business performance.
• Staff, train, coach, and administer performance reviews, salary increases and corrective action of subordinate employees.
• Ensures compliance to all safety policies and procedures, leads operational discipline throughout the LSI employee and Contract Carrier management organizations, work closely with the SH&E organization in achieving established goals.
• Ensures compliance with all local, state, federal, and Linde policies regarding environmental, permitting, and product quality requirements.
• Develops, implements, and supports Lean Six Sigma and Cost Reduction projects.
• Manages and achieves equipment reliability goals.
• Manages and achieves fixed and variable cost goals, develop monthly business report covering financial performance and create action plans to address deficiencies.
• Works across all levels of Linde organizations to achieve desired results into a cohesive and effective management team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Business Experience
• 7+ years Operations experience
• 3+ years management experience
• 3+ years relevant experience with understanding of cryogenic pumps, transports, and related compressed gas equipment, specialized training/certifications is preferred.
• Candidate must meet all background check and drug screening requirements as set by Linde and its customers.
• Must possess proven leadership, team building, and decision-making skills.
• Must be reliability and efficiency focused and possess strong planning and execution skills.
• Must possess strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to motivate and lead.
• Must reside or be willing to relocate to the La Porte, TX area.
• Travel up to 50% may be required for this position.

Working Conditions:

• This position requires outside work, lifting up to 50lbs, climbing, bending.

About Linde:

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2023 sales of $33 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 and protect our planet.

The company serves a variety of end markets including aerospace, chemicals, food and beverage, electronics, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and primary metals. Linde's industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

For more information about the company and its products and services, please visit www.linde.com.

• We offer a comprehensive competitive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation, health, dental, disability, life insurance, 401(k) (with matching), and pension benefits.
• At Linde, we strive to create a work environment that treats all employees with respect, supports new thoughts and ideas, encourages growth and development, celebrates our differences, and embraces inclusion. Linde is committed to remaining an employer of choice for the diverse, ever-increasing pool of global talent.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

Linde thanks all applicants in advance for their interest; however, only those applicants who are being considered for an interview will be contacted.

Pay commensurate with experience.