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Messer Americas Graduate Development Program (GDP)

Messer Americas’ Graduate Development Program immerses graduates quickly into the challenging world of industrial gases.  Start on a unique, two-year path in one of the three tracks below, and learn the Messer business, develop your technical and business capabilities, and excel as a professional.

Upon successful completion of this program, participants are welcomed as associates within the Operations, Commercial, or Information Services areas within Messer Americas.  Messer Americas will work with participants to identify a role within the company that matches their skills and aspirations with the best opportunity for career development.

Are you able to:

• Be a self-starter who takes initiative to drive tasks to completion? Excel in a multi-disciplinary team environment?
• Communicate effectively both written and verbally?
• Consult, assess, analyze and problem-solve?
• Manage complex, ambiguous, or incomplete data?
• Balance & prioritize multiple projects while maintaining required focus?
• Build relationships & be customer focused?
• Work across cross-cultural teams?
• Travel between 25 and 50%?
• Relocate across the US to different assignments/rotations?

Achieve the highest professional and personal development through the following program components:

• Technical and professional training
• Working in a diverse culture
• Networking with leadership and technical experts
• Three diverse 8-month rotational assignments