Veterans Preferred - Plant Manager

Company: Airgas
Location: Parkersburg
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Military Veterans are Encouraged to Apply. -R10062224 Plant Manager (Open)

Location:
Parkersburg, WV - Staunton - Filling industrial

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The Plant Manager is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of all plant operations, including but not limited to the safe and compliant leadership of associate activities in producing and repackaging of compressed and liquid gases into cylinders, and assigning job tasks to associates in accordance with customer orders and fulfillment requirements.

• Operate and safely maintain the plant for pumping or repackaging of gases into cylinders while ensuring compliance with all federal, state, local and company policies, procedures, regulations and laws.
  
• Safely leads, operates and maintains the plant for pumping or repackaging of gases into cylinders while ensuring compliance with all federal, state, local and company policies, procedures, regulations and laws. Maintains a neat, clean and orderly plant appearance.
  
• Analyses production schedules and determines associate-hour requirements for completion of job assignments. Establishes and/or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules.
  
• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays.
  
• Implements measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and product quality. Modifies working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of associate labor.
  
• Inspect machines and equipment to ensure specific operational performance and optimum utilization.
  
• Ensures all safety rules are strictly observed and safety training is regularly scheduled, conducted and documented. Interpret company policies to workers and enforce safety regulations.
  
• Ensures all injuries and accidents are properly investigated and reported within 24 hours.
  
• Analyzes, resolves, and assists associates in solving work related issues or roadblocks
  
• Partners with HRBP to collaborate on associate actions, such as promotions, transfers, discharges, and disciplinary measures. Ensures associate issues, grievances, etc. are effectively handled to optimize associate engagement.
  
• Leads subordinate supervisors to provide support and development to ensure all associates are achieving established goals. Provides coaching and corrective action promptly, to ensure that poor performers are identified, documented and corrective measures are put in place.
  
• Train new associates and provide cross training to continue production during times of personnel shortages.
  
• Maintains time and production records and approves overtime when essential, while ensuring overtime is managed appropriately.
  
• Accurately completes and submits paperwork (e.g., shippers, cylinder audits, month-end reports, etc.) in a timely manner.
  
• Utilize plant dashboards and financial reports to drive improvements in operational efficiencies and costs.
  
• Additional duties and projects as assigned.
  
  
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  Are you a MATCH?
  
  EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
  
  High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and three to five years related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
  LANGUAGE SKILLS
  
  Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of associates of the organization.
  
  MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
  
  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to interpret bar graphs.
  
  CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
  
  Must possess valid driver's license and ability to obtain a valid forklift operator's license
  
  REASONING ABILITY
  
  Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
  
  PHYSICAL DEMANDS
  
  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  
  While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and smell. The associate frequently is required to sit. The associate must regularly move more than 125 pounds with the aid of material handling equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and color vision.
  
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  We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees.
  
  We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children, including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.
  
  Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees' dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.
  
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  Your differences enhance our performance
  
  At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
  
  We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.
  
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  Equal Employment Opportunity Information
  
  We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
  
  Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company's written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.
  
  Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com .
  
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