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Associate Director of Conceptual Engineering – Americas

Linde Engineering
Tonawanda, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 3/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/26/2026
Linde Engineering North America LLC

Associate Director of Conceptual Engineering – Americas

The Woodlands, TX or Tonawanda, NY, United States | req28017

What you will enjoy doing*

  • You will provide strategic leadership for conceptual engineering activities supporting major gas supply opportunities across the Americas
  • Establish and maintain best practices, methodologies, and tools for conceptual design, technology evaluation, and early-stage economic analysis
  • Ensure alignment of regional project opportunities with global technology and product strategies
  • You will identify emerging technologies and solution approaches that strengthen competitiveness in Air Separation, Hydrogen, and CO₂ markets
  • Ensure alignment between the Americas and Global Technology standard scope split and workflows
  • Lead the development of integrated plant concepts and gas supply solutions during early project phases
  • Oversee the evaluation of production technologies and gas supply options to identify optimal technical and commercial solutions
  • Additionally, you will ensure conceptual designs incorporate customer process integration, operational considerations, and lifecycle economics
  • Guide the preparation of indicative capital estimates, performance assumptions, and economic evaluations supporting project screening and proposals
  • Partner with Business Development, Proposal Gases teams to shape competitive solutions for complex customer opportunities
  • Collaborate with Global Technology and Product Management teams to align product offerings with regional project needs
  • Also you will coordinate with engineering disciplines to validate process simulations, technical assumptions, and performance models
  • Provide technical leadership in strategic customer engagements and project development discussions
  • Support technical presentations and participate in client knowledge-acquisition sessions to understand customer operations and requirements
  • Translate customer needs into differentiated and technically sound plant concepts
  • Lastly you will provide oversight for technical risk evaluation and solution validation across multiple production technologies

What Makes You Great

  • You will have a BS or higher degree in Chemical Engineering or related engineering discipline
  • 10 years experience in industrial gas technologies, including Air Separation, Hydrogen, CO₂ processing, or related energy transition technologies
  • You will also demonstrated leadership experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams
  • Strong background in conceptual design and techno-economic evaluation
  • Proven ability to collaborate across commercial, engineering, and technology organizations

Why you will love working with us

The position will manage a total organization size of 10-15 engineers. This is a leadership position which will have process & systems responsibility for Linde Engineering Americas projects executed from the Tonawanda, NY office.

In this role you must learn and abide the Linde Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct by demonstrating honesty, integrity, professionalism in all communications, actions, and decisions.

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you’re looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, 401(k) matching, pension benefits, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Additional compensation may vary depending on the position and organizational level. Build your future with us while making an impact every day!

Salary Pay Range: 140,000USD – 170,000USD

Have we inspired you? Let´s talk about it

We are looking forward to receiving your complete application.

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 acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

  • The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Therefore employees assigned may be required to perform additional job tasks required by the manager.

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