Linde Company Profile

Linde
Website : http://www.Linde.com

Company Information
Linde North America is part of The Linde Group, a global company offering its employees a culturally diverse, challenging and stimulating work environment including robust training and development programs. Our employees are challenged to be leaders in their fields, to strive for continuous improvement and be passionate in their pursuit of excellence in everything they do.
We believe that people create our success. Our primary goal, therefore, is to hire and retain the highest peforming, most talented employees who are leaders in their own right, and provide them with a growth environment that is focused on adding value for the customer.

We strongly believe that the diversity of our employees and their ongoing growth and development, combined with our global footprint and broad range of business activities, provide us with the ingredients required to maintain and grow our leading market positions around the world.

Linde North America region is comprised of the US, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean with an employee population of approximately 4,000 people. The North America Headquarters is located in Murray Hill, NJ.

The Linde Group is a world leading global gases and engineering organization that manufactures, supplies, and distributes industrial, medical, and specialty gases. We are recognized as a leader in the development of new gas-related technologies and applications for the electronics, fabrication, hydrogen, glass, food, metals, chemistry and other industries. Linde achieved sales of $15.9 billion in 2008, has about 50,000 employees in 100 countries around the world -- and a leadership position in many of those countries.

Company Benefits
Benefits

Flexibility, choice, family coverage, financial security - they are all yours with The Linde family of benefits. Our benefits program has been carefully designed to meet the needs of our employees and their families.

Medical Plans - Linde offers competitive medical plans to our employees. The plans differ in the way you choose health care services.

Dental Plan - Linde offers a dental program that allows an employee the freedom to select any dentist. We also offer a Preferred Dentist Program (PDP) to help lower out-of-pocket expenses for most preventive and major dental services.

Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance - Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) can be key sources of financial security for family members in the event of a Linde employee accident or death.

Dependent Life Insurance - In addition to life insurance, a Linde employee can choose dependent life insurance for a spouse and/or children. Dependent life insurance is designed to help meet immediate expenses in the event of a Linde employee's death.

Business Travel Accident Insurance – The Business Travel Accident Plan is designed to provide benefits to a Linde employee when an accident causes the loss of life or limb.

Long-Term Disability Plan - The Disability plans sponsored by Linde provide protection against loss of income of the employee becomes disabled and cannot work.

Pre-Tax Health Care Spending Account – The Health Care Spending Account enables Linde employees to pay for certain health care expenses not reimbursed by insurance with tax-free dollars.

Pre-Tax Dependent Care Spending Account - The Dependent Care Spending Account allows Linde employees to set aside tax-free dollars to cover eligible dependent care expenses.

Savings Investment Plan (40l-k) – The Savings Investment Plan is designed to help our employees prepare for retirement. Employees have the option to contribute before-tax or after-tax dollars. The company matches a portion of the employee's contribution.

CASH Balance Retirement Plan - The CASH Balance Retirement Plan is designed to provide Linde employees with income for retirement.

Employee Assistance Program - The LifeWorks OneSource program offers practical solutions, information, advice, and support to help our employees feel in control of their lives.

Incentive Bonus Opportunities