Manager - Plant

Location:

• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday   8am-4pm
• The Plant Manager corrects unsafe acts or conditions without delay
• Analyzes and resolves work problems
• Operate and safely maintain a plant for packaging gasses
• workplace.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 a 14-week paid child birth benefit 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

The Plant Manager manages and coordinates activities at the Salt Lake City, UT  location, producing and repackaging compressed liquid gasses into cylinders and managing plant and distribution activities. Operate and safely maintain a plant for packaging gasses into cylinders while ensuring compliance with all federal, state, local and company policies, procedures, regulations and laws.

• Conduct periodic checks of the plant for safe and efficient operation.
• Ensure all injuries and accidents are properly investigated and reported within 24 hours.
• Resolve problems associated with plant operation.
• Ensure all safety rules are strictly observed and safety training is regularly scheduled, conducted and documented.
• Provide coaching and corrective action promptly, to ensure that poor performers are identified, documented and improved to acceptable performance, or discharged.
• Approve overtime when essential, while keeping overtime at acceptable levels.
• Ensure employee complaints, issues, etc. are effectively handled.
• Operate a forklift, pallet jack and other warehouse equipment.
• Take care of critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
• Make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.
• Possess the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one’s conduct.
• Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
• Self Motivated to perform a task to the best of one’s ability using his or her own drive or initiative.
• Utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• A total of five (5) years of industry experience to include a minimum of two (2) years of demonstrated experience working in a supervisory/leadership role. Prefer prior experience with compressed/packaged gases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Prior experience utilizing SAP preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of Google suite applications
• Strong analytical skills and a thorough understanding of how to leverage metrics and related tools to improve production efficiency and effectiveness.
• 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.

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to deal effectively with others in both favorable and unfavorable situations regardless of status or position. Accepts cultural diversity and establishes effective working relationships.
• 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.

• Lives by Airgas safety programs, OSHA, and all related rules, regulations, procedures which are applicable to this position’s responsibilities
  

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Benefits

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, short-term and long-term disability, life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), pre-tax commuter transportation benefit, parental leave, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, jury duty and funeral/bereavement leave, and paid holidays for all eligible full-time employees.

Additionally, we offer our eligible employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for eligible employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

Associates who are members of collective bargaining units should review their bargaining agreement to determine whether they are eligible for some or all of the benefits described here and to see any special terms or conditions for eligibility.

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