Operations Officer

Air Liquide in Spain was founded in 1909 and today is made up of a dynamic team working in industry and healthcare throughout the country.

We offer gas, equipment and services for a variety of industries: from oil and gas, automotive, metal fabrication to chemical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, food and beverage and healthcare. Our local projects confirm the Group's commitment to developing innovative solutions that promote the energy transition, including hydrogen energy.

As a market leader, we aim to create value by offering cutting-edge solutions. We are committed to ensuring that our customers receive the best and most cost-effective performance from our products and services and that our patients receive the best quality of care. In today's competitive and ever-changing markets, it is the added value we offer our customers that makes the vital difference.

Perform industrial operations complying with standards of safety, productivity, and efficiency while ensuring the quality of the final product and customer service, complying with Good

Manufacturing Practices for the Pharmaceutical Industry and/or food manufacturing regulations whenever applicable.

Provide operational support to the Plant Manager in the supervision of the production plan, batch documentation management, and daily control of the center, guaranteeing the safe, efficient, and continuous execution of filling, testing, maintenance, and logistics operations for containers (industrial and medicinal).

• Collection of production inputs (equipment status, absences, etc.) and communication to the Plant Manager for production planning or adjustments.
• Verify that the production planned for the Plant is executed as planned (Quantities, Products, Times, etc.) and following the required procedures for each product and customer.
• In the absence of the Plant Manager, perform the compilation, review, and filing of technical documentation for medicinal product batches.

1. Perform container selection and filling operations (industrial medicinal gases, special gases, and/or acetylene)

• Guarantee the performance of container selection and filling operations safely, following applicable procedures: including connection and disconnection of bottles, blocks, rangers, or LBUs..., handling of all valves necessary to fill the equipment with the appropriate content, including secondary tasks such as product batching, completion of traceability forms, completion of batch documentation, and application of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and verification of product specifications.
• Control parameters, perform tests, and verify physical data to optimize production in quality and quantity.
• Respect established flows by locating containers at all times in the areas identified for each status as indicated in the current blueprints.
• Guarantee corrective operations while parameters are not optimized.
• Guarantee the safe startup and shutdown of all plant equipment, follow the procedure, and supervise parameters.
• React as the first responder in an emergency situation and initiate safety procedures.
• Keep their manager and/or QP/RTF/RCQ informed about any safety and/or activity issues (includes incidents in the selection, filling, etc. processes).

2. Perform bottle testing operations (if applicable)

Perform bottle maintenance and testing operations daily, complying with the standards and procedures defined in their place of work. Among others:

• Perform bottle classification according to bottle type and pressure.
• Check that the valve is not blocked and remove the valve.
• Use fiber optic cable for internal inspection of the bottle.
• Clean the bottle internally and externally, if necessary, and weigh the bottle.
• Handle the bottles, place them on the hydraulic test bench, and perform the hydraulic test. Use the ultrasound testing system, if available.
• Dry the bottles.
• Perform external painting operations on bottles.
• Mount new or reconditioned valves.
• Enter the bottle data into the corresponding database.
• Mark the new test date and move the bottles to the designated areas.

3. Perform the preparation of transport shipments (primary, secondary, materials,...) and the receipt of goods

• Guarantee compliance with operations (load preparation, loading, unloading,..) according to defined procedures and guaranteeing the necessary traceability.
• Respect the use of protective equipment.
• Receipt of materials/products necessary for the Filling Center/warehouse according to defined procedures.
• Warehouse management (preparation of primary and secondary orders, physical and digital receipt/dispatch of products/containers, maintenance of order and cleanliness, goods management according to FEFO system, management of rejected and/or returned products, traceability management) in accordance with GMP and GDP for medicines and defined procedures.
• Participate in safety meetings and be proactive in achieving safety objectives.
• Guarantee that process quality procedures are respected on a day-to-day basis.
• Loading and unloading trucks.
• Prepare materials for deliveries.
• Receipt of materials necessary for the Filling Center.

4. Comply with health and safety, quality, and environmental requirements

• Guarantee compliance of operations with safety procedures.
• Ensure that quality procedures for the process and for the analysis of the final product are respected on a day-to-day basis.
• Take charge of compliance with analytical plans.
• May be qualified for emergency plan brigades.
• Comply with the requirements of the Good Manufacturing Practices for Medicines and Medical Devices and the applicable current Pharmacopoeia.

5. Record operations in computer systems (or on paper)

• Enter all daily production data into the system.
• Ensure the monitoring of production events.
• Fill out and communicate incident reports.
• Perform material counting during inventory operations.
• Perform work studies of standard operating procedures, P&D, PFD, and all other technical documentation related to the specific plant equipment.

6. Participate in continuous improvement processes and perform basic facility or bottle maintenance tasks

• Detect process and procedure improvements based on incident analysis.
• Detect situational risks and propose improvements.
• Propose changes regarding Safety or productivity.
• Participate in and perform basic maintenance operations of the facility, production equipment, or bottles, according to the applicable procedures and the qualification necessary for the task.