Plant Manager

About the role

We are looking for a Plant Manager in Lima, OH. Comprehensive family benefits are offered, including medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and disability insurance. Benefits start after 30 days of employment.

Responsibilities

• Leading and empowering the team engaged in producing and repackaging of compressed and liquid gases into cylinders.
• Correcting unsafe acts or conditions without delay.
• Allows team members to align daily responsibilities with customer needs, current stock levels, and team strengths.
• Maintaining a neat, clean, and orderly plant appearance.
• Estimating team-hour requirements for job assignments.
• Establishing and/or adjusting work procedures collaboratively to meet production schedules.
• Enhancing production methods, equipment performance, and product quality.
• Adapting workflows and equipment use to support team productivity and well-being.
• Ensuring all safety rules are strictly observed and safety training is regularly scheduled, conducted, and documented.
• Interpreting company policies to team members and fostering a culture of safety adherence.
• Investigating and reporting all injuries and accidents within 24 hours.
• Analyzing and resolving, or partnering with team members in solving, work-related problems.
• Supporting career growth, internal movement, and constructive performance management.
• Handling associate issues, grievances, etc., effectively.
• Mentoring and guiding operational leaders to cultivate effective leadership.
• Designing collaborative initiatives to inspire and engage the team to achieve goals.
• Providing coaching and corrective action promptly, to ensure team members receive feedback to meet shared performance goals.
• Onboarding new team members and supporting cross-functional learning to continue production during personnel shortages.
• Maintaining time and production records and approving overtime when essential, while keeping overtime at acceptable levels.
• Collaborating with outside sales to ensure order accuracy and properly scheduled customer deliveries by Airgas trucks.
• Monitoring SAP reports daily such as open order/delivery reports, billing and delivery block reports, and open Purchase Order (PO) reports.
• Overseeing employee development in procedural areas like following all Airgas Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) and safety regulations.
• Running recurring orders for the next day's deliveries.
• Routing all the trucks and PGI tickets.
• Completing Daily Cycle Counts.

Requirements

• A High School Diploma or GED.
• A total of five (5) years of industry experience, including a minimum of two (2) years of demonstrated experience working in a supervisory/leadership role.
• Prior experience utilizing SAP is preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of Google suite applications.
• Strong analytical skills and thorough understanding of leveraging metrics and related tools to improve production efficiency and effectiveness.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to deal effectively with others in both favorable and unfavorable situations regardless of status of position.
• 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.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• A minimum of five (5) years of industry experience, including a minimum of two (2) years of demonstrated experience working in a supervisory/leadership role.
• Prior experience utilizing SAP is preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of Google suite applications.
• Strong analytical skills and thorough understanding of leveraging metrics and related tools to improve production efficiency and effectiveness.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to deal effectively with others in both favorable and unfavorable situations regardless of status of position.
• 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.

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.

Our Commitment to Diversity

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the unique perspectives of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We believe that a variety of backgrounds makes our team stronger and more innovative. At Airgas, we RESPECT, HONOR and VALUE diversity.

About Airgas

At Airgas, we are committed to building a 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company is a Government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Airgas 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.