Site Manager – JIGH
Airproducts
- Location
- Jubail, SA
- Work mode
- On-site
- Seniority
- Mid
- Posted
- October 26, 2026
Job description
At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.
Reimagine What’s Possible
Company Profile
BHIG—Blue Hydrogen Industrial Gases is a regional development and investment joint venture (JV) between Saudi Aramco and Air Products Qudra “APQ”. Our company benefits from the combined strengths of two leading entities. BHIG is positioned to drive industrial innovation and operational excellence across Saudi Arabia and the region. BHIG focuses on supporting clean energy goals through low-carbon hydrogen production.
Purpose
Site Manager is responsible for managing site team and a facility which houses an Air Separation Plant, Hydrogen Steam Methane Reformer, a CO2 unit, Compression, Steam Turbine Generator, all ancillary and utility equipment, a merchant facility, and pipeline network.
Site Manager, reporting to the Operation Line Manager. Site Manager is accountable for managing and supervising the operations and maintenance staff which include Assistant Site Manager, Shift Supervisors, Operators, and a maintenance team. The Site Manager will manage the day-to-day operations, which include, customer production meetings, insuring daily operational targets are achieved, interfacing with the Maintenance, and Engineering teams to insure the safe and reliable operation of the site.
Principal Accountabilities
Safety:
Provide & maintain a safe work environment. Demonstrate leadership with all company & industry safe work processes to prevent all incidents.
Adherence to company HSSE policy and procedures. Ensure all Environmental Regulatory requirements are met. Ensure BHIG standards, and global best practices for EH&S, productivity, reliability, quality, and overall customer services are met.
Drive risk based-decision culture to ensure effective safety control.
Technical:
Provide direction & guidance based on technical feedback from Engineering and Maintenance for troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and test activities.
Provide Operations and Maintenance support. Maintain accurate document control and monitor quality assurance initiatives.
Provide Operations and Maintenance guidance to ensure safety, reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
Provide Operations and Maintenance input for scheduled outages to ensure contractual requirements are achieved
Manage plant production efficiently based on data driven decisions to ensure safety and reliability targets are met to achieve maximum profitable.
Work closely with business areas to identify productivity expansion projects.
Operations and Maintenance:
Ensure the safety of all operations and maintenance personnel by utilizing the BHIG’s Basic Safety Practice program, which includes Safety Work Permits, LOTO, Confined Space, etc. The position facilitates planning, organizing, auditing, and follow-up, to build the BHIG safety culture. Meet the customer’s satisfaction on safety, reliability, product quality, and flexibility on product supply.
Responsible for ensuring all tasks assigned in a safe and responsible manner in accordance with the established operating procedures and written or oral instructions from Superintendent.
Ensure that maintenance notifications in SAP are carried out correctly. Verify SAP notification on field and approved with basic data i.e. functional location, malfunction description, damage code, priority, and hazard information.
Participate in pre-work visits with Maintenance and Contractors to identify risk activities.
Ensure each work permit related documents are prepared and handed over to the team.
Participate in preparing maintenance or process shutdowns and turnarounds i.e. scope of works, prioritization of notifications (define consequences of malfunctions in terms of sector availability).
Participate in area daily meeting and share the maintenance plan with team to ensure all equipment’s are prepared for scheduled maintenance works (corrective and preventive).
Participate in maintenance plan daily meetings with the Maintenance Leader and Planners to analyze daily notifications, and to contribute to the updating of the weekly maintenance schedule.
Ensure equipment’s readiness for maintenance activity and after completion back to operations.
Manage and organize regular equipment testing and routine preventive Maintenance.
Participate in the marking priority maintenance activities to guarantee the reliability and operational continuity of equipment and to agree the date of repair.
Release and ensure all work permit precautions and required conditions are fulfilled, maxim