Production/Plant Supervisor

Location: Dundalk, MD – Filling industrial

About the role

Supervises the day-to-day activities for a segment within the industrial, specialty, and medical distribution and gas filling operations of a production location. Assists with managing all gas cylinder processing, ultrasonic testing, and compliance with Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Transportation (DOT), Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), SAFECORE, and other business-related compliance activities.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the activities of 2 or more plant production associates to accomplish job duties.
• Partners with other Plant Supervisors to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
• Promotes a strong safety and compliance culture, correcting unsafe acts or conditions without delay.
• Assigns tasks to workers according to customers’ needs, current stock levels, and worker’s expertise.
• Studies production schedules and estimates worker-hour requirements for completion of job assignments.
• Maintains time and production records.
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
• Implements measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, quality of product, and changes working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of work crew.
• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems.
• Recommends or initiates associate actions, such as new hires, promotions, transfers, discharges, performance improvement, and disciplinary measures.
• Trains new workers and cross-trains employees to continue production during personnel shortages.
• Provides assistance to the Plant Manager with regard to planning and managing capital investments.
• Coordinates the proper inventory levels of supplies and equipment.
• Performs additional duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 2 years of demonstrated experience working in a leadership role within a distribution environment.
• Intermediate knowledge of Google suite applications and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).
• 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.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior technical experience with compressed gases, gas analysis, and gas lab equipment.
• Prior experience utilizing SAP.

Physical Demands

• Able to talk, walk, sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crawl, or crouch.
• 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.
• Occasionally required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, feel, or use a calculator or computer; and reach with hands and arms.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 60 pounds and move up to 125 pounds with the aid of material handling equipment.

Work Environment

• Minimal travel required.
• Work space contains moving mechanical parts and risk of electric shock.
• Requires both indoor and 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Up to 14-week paid childbirth benefits to support growing families.
• Parental leave, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, jury duty, and funeral/bereavement leave.
• Paid holidays for all eligible full-time employees.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match.
• Tuition Assistance and discounted college tuition for eligible employees’ dependents.
• Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.
• Benefits start after just 30 days of employment.

Pay

$60,000.00 - $75,000.00