Production Supervisor

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Airgas is Hiring for a Production Supervisor in South Plainfield, NJ!

Duties & Responsibilities

• Leads and supports the activities of 2 or more plant production associates to accomplish team goals.
• Partners with other Plant Supervisors to ensure smooth, collaborative day-to-day operations.
• Promotes a strong safety and compliance culture, addressing unsafe acts or conditions proactively without delay.
• Coordinates and delegates responsibilities with team members based on customer needs, inventory levels, and individual strengths.
• Reviews production schedules and estimates team-hour requirements for successful completion of job assignments.
• Maintains time and production records.
• Guides team members on company policies and champions safety regulations to maintain a secure environment.
• Implements measures to enhance production methods, equipment performance, and product quality, continuously refining working conditions and equipment use to support work crew efficiency.
• Partners with the team to foster engagement and inspire shared goal achievement.
• Collaborates with team members to navigate and resolve operational challenges together.
• Supports associate career development, growth initiatives, hiring, transfers, and constructive performance coaching.
• Mentors new team members and cross-trains employees to ensure continuous production and skill-building across the team.
• Provides assistance to the Plant Manager with regard to planning and managing capital investments.
• Coordinates proper inventory levels for supplies and equipment.
• Additional duties and projects as may be assigned.

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• 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 experience utilizing SAP
• Prior technical experience with compressed gases, gas analysis and gas lab equipment

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 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.

Pay & Benefits

Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Comprehensive Family Benefits: Airgas offers a full benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.

• Support for Parents: Up to 14-week paid child birth benefits.
• Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
• Early Access: Benefits start after just 30 days of employment.