Plant Production Manager

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Airgas is Hiring for a Plant Production Manager in Hyattsville, MD!

We are looking for you !

• Pay: $75,000.00 - $85,000.00
• Comprehensive Family Benefits: Airgas offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.
• Support for Parents: We offer up to 14-week paid child birth benefits to support growing families.
• Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
• Early Access: Your benefits start after just 30 days of employment

Recruiter: Carolyn Harris | carolyn.harris@airliquide.com

The Plant Production Manager is leading and supporting the day to day initiatives for a segment within the industrial, specialty and medical distribution and gas filling operations of a production location. In this active role, you will partner in guiding all gas cylinder processing, ultrasonic testing, and stewardship with all Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Transportation (DOT), Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), SAFECORE, and other business related standards.

Responsibilities

• Partners with other Plant Supervisors to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
• Nurtures a strong safety and standards culture, guiding safe practices or conditions without delay and upholding safety regulations.
• Coordinates projects with the team according to customers’ needs, current stock levels, and individual expertise.
• Studies production schedules and determines the capacity and support required for completion of job assignments.
• Advances measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, quality of product, and fosters working conditions and use of equipment to enhance the workflow and impact of the team. Ideally, you will suggest plans to inspire the team to achieve shared goals.
• Understands and seeks alignment on work problems, or collaborates with the team in finding solutions.
• Supports new team members and encourages cross-functional growth to continue production during times of transition or may fill-in as needed.
• Provides insight to the Plant Manager with regard to planning and coordinating capital investments.
• Balances the proper inventory levels of supplies and equipment.
• Additional duties and projects as may be assigned

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Required Qualifications

• High school degree/GED
• 2 years of demonstrated experience working in a leadership role
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, and Outlook).
• Strong analytical skills and a thorough understanding of how to leverage metrics and related tools to improve production efficiency and effectiveness.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Communication skills that ensure a smooth flow of information between self and others through clear speaking and writing, encouragement of open expression of ideas, and effective listening.
• Demonstrated knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in all units of measure using whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratios, and percent.
• Self-starter; self-motivated; well organized; ability to work independently.
• Detail oriented with the ability to complete handwritten compliance documentation neatly and accurately.
• Demonstrated dedication to product quality and customer satisfaction.
• Specific vision abilities to include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus objects.
• Regularly required to stand, bend, stoop, crouch, reach, grasp, feel and talk or hear.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 60 pounds and move up to 125 pounds with the aid of material handling equipment.
• Work space is one that contains moving mechanical parts and risk of electric shock.
• Requires both indoor & outdoor environments in various seasonal weather conditions. Must be able to work in temperatures ranging from -10 to over 100 degrees.
• Work environment may contain loud noises and odors that may last for long periods of time or on a continual basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or technical degree/certification
• Experience in distribution environment
• Prior technical experience with compressed gases, gas analysis and gas lab equipment.
• Prior experience utilizing SAP preferred.