Veterans Preferred - Assistant Plant Manager

Company: Airgas
Location: Billerica
Posted on: May 1, 2025

Job Description:

Military Veterans are Encouraged to Apply. -R10064828 Assistant Plant Manager (Open)

Location:
Billerica, MA - Filling industrial

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The Assistant Plant Manager supervises the day to day activities for multiple segments of the industrial, specialty and medical distribution and gas filling operations for a plant. This position assists with managing all gas cylinder processing, ultrasonic testing, and compliance with all Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Transportation (DOT), Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), SAFECORE, and other business related compliance activities.

• Supervises two or more associates involved in activities related to the plant, quality assurance lab, and/or drivers.
  
  
  • Coordinates and 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 task 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.
    
  • Additional duties and projects as may be assigned.
    
    
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    Are you a MATCH?
    
    
    • High School Diploma or GED.
      
    • A minimum of 2 years of demonstrated experience working in a leadership role within a manufacturing or distribution environment. Prefer prior technical experience with compressed gases, gas analysis and gas lab equipment.
      
    • Prior experience utilizing SAP preferred.
      
    • 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 and as part of a team.
      
    • Detail oriented with the ability to complete handwritten compliance documentation neatly and accurately.
      
    • Demonstrated dedication to product quality and customer satisfaction.
      
    • Employee may occasionally be required to traverse through office and/or manufacturing locations.
      
    • Requires frequent use of computer and telephone.
      
    • Occasionally be able to move up to 60 pounds and move more than 125 pounds with the aid of material handling equipment.
      
    • 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.
      
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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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