Air Products Employer Reviews

Worked in sales and account management. Good place to work.

Everyday is a different day with new tasks or projects. I enjoy dealing with waste chemicals and HAZMAT. All of the employees play key roles into making the production run smoothly.

Took the job as a welder..Had to cross train for other jobs due to lay offs every 2 or 3 years..

I thoroughly enjoyed working for Air Products and I consider them some of the best years of my life.
The company has changed tremendously over the last few years. It used to be a place of solid employment; but has degraded due to recent management philosphy changes. Their people used to be heavily valued (and they reaped HUGE rewards in return); but – more... that is not the case today. It is truly unfortunate. – less

Really focus on diversified high technology and devoted seeking the most appropriate field in application.

Plenty of interesting engineering/design and redesign work to be done, including discovery of many lurking design, fabrication, and installation problems.

Management talks big on safety, but doesn't walk the walk. Too much focus on saving nickels and dimes during the product design stage, including fabricating welded equipment in China and India to – more... save on labor.

Engineers are exploited by the matrix organization and modestly compensated, yet they are required to frequently travel to far away places like China and India... whether they like it or not.

Some products and installations are not properly designed/installed per national codes and good engineering practices, including welds that look good on the outside, but may not be sound on the inside. To save on fabrication costs, some weld joints are designed such that they can't be examined via radiography to verify soundness.

Some company owned plants are aging, and some piping may not be properly designed for the service conditions and are at risk of failure. One unit in California was operating for a year with a known and serious high pressure natural gas leak.

Over the years, there have been a number of fires and explosions at company owned and operated plants. With aging equipment and penny pinching on design, fabrication costs, and quality assurance, expect more fires and explosions going forward.

Meanwhile, the CEO has been grossly over-compensated. – less

I enjoyed this job. I enjoyed my co workers and management. The hardest part was when co workers would get stressed out.It was a great environment.

Air Products has a lot of good benefits and care for thier employees.

Managed up to 50 craftsmen over three shifts, learned how to multi task, maintain budgets and solve problems

Great place to work, value hard work and promotional opportunities, and friendly, intelligent colleagues to work with.

I was given an opportunity that normally wasn't available for entry level chemists. My work includes clean room and ICPMS, method development, customer audits, R&D, SOP's/MOC's and programming.

I enjoyed, and learned alot form my internship assignments at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. The team memmbers were very nice, and helpful during project assignments. I felt comfortable asking questions when I had to.

At times the position could be very chaotic due to changing priorities but was very rewarding. A Technician was more than just a technician. You were an integral part of R&D

Good place to work, good training program in place. Long hours running team, but good pay while doing so. Not much chance to advance if you're a driver, they want to keep you in place as a driver.

As a driver @ WAS a fantastic place to work, now NOT so fantastic with pay cuts it's now like any common carrier. We used to get paid as soon as we entered plant to load ( both drivers on teams) no give up first two hours and split team pay @ plants good hourly pay but if you have to split it only 10.00 hr and this 2 hr.give up time is EVERY TIME you – more... change your duty status, so you may sit all day and not make anything but allotted pay for loading! Gee..wonder if plant operators I used to see sleeping or watching movies were getting half pay at night?..NOT! Oh, if you're a driver, you're treated like scum by plant personnel, had one head plant lady say there's NO WAY our plant people could have left that mess in here.it must have been "Those Truck Drivers"!..oh there's lots more! – less

I worked nights in Laporte and would assist setting up jobs for the pipe fitters and welders. I would also assist in any tasks that were needed throughout the plant.

Good place to work. The management team is very professional. The environment makes for a good learning experience.

Everyday starts out with safety meeting, streches and excersice. We go through the work orders and go out and fix replace or repair what is on our tasks for the day. We all work as teams and mostly everyone gets along very well.
Learning process is an everyday thing becauce something new usually comes up, but past experience always comes in handy on – more... these occations.
As in every place there will be some friction or descrepencies of some sort but are easilly worked out through the channels set in place and everyone goes on and work is back to normal.
The most fun we had would be at our celebration parties. whether at the plant for safety records or anniversaries or whatever! – less

Management style is out dated... reluctant to change

high level of integrity
hard part of the job is process oriented, atmosphere, and lack of clarity from management

A good company to work for the problem is the plant was sold and i most likely will not have a job after december.