Plant Manager

Airgas•Carnegie, PA

About The Position

The Plant Manager leads and empowers the team responsible for producing and repackaging compressed and liquid gases into cylinders. The role ensures safe plant operation and maintenance, compliance with applicable laws and company policies, procedures, and regulations, and a neat, clean, and orderly facility. The manager aligns daily work with customer needs, inventory levels, team strengths, and production schedules. The position develops and adjusts work procedures collaboratively, improves production methods, equipment performance, and product quality, and adapts workflows and equipment use to support productivity and team well-being. It promotes safety through training, policy interpretation, prompt correction of unsafe conditions, and timely investigation and reporting of injuries and accidents. The Plant Manager supports team performance and development through onboarding, coaching, constructive performance management, handling associate issues, mentoring operational leaders, and enabling cross-functional learning. The role maintains time and production records, approves necessary overtime while managing overtime levels, coordinates order accuracy and customer deliveries with outside sales, and performs daily SAP monitoring and operational tasks including recurring orders, truck routing, PGI tickets, and cycle counts.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Five years of industry experience, including at least two years of demonstrated supervisory or leadership experience.
Intermediate knowledge of Google Suite applications.
Strong analytical skills and understanding of how to use metrics and related tools to improve production efficiency and effectiveness.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to communicate clearly, encourage open expression of ideas, and listen effectively.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal effectively with others in favorable and unfavorable situations, regardless of position or status.
Accept cultural diversity and establish effective working relationships.
Demonstrated knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages.
Knowledge of and adherence to Airgas safety programs, OSHA requirements, and applicable rules, regulations, and procedures.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with compressed or packaged gases.
Bachelor's degree.
Prior experience using SAP.

Responsibilities

Lead and empower the team producing and repackaging compressed and liquid gases into cylinders.
Ensure safe operation and maintenance of the plant and compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and company policies and procedures.
Maintain a neat, clean, and orderly plant.
Study production schedules and estimate team-hour requirements for job assignments.
Collaboratively establish and adjust work procedures to meet production schedules.
Partner with the team to improve production methods, equipment performance, and product quality.
Adapt workflows and equipment use to support productivity and team well-being.
Ensure safety rules are observed and safety training is regularly scheduled, conducted, and documented.
Interpret company policies and foster safety adherence among team members.
Ensure injuries and accidents are investigated and reported within 24 hours.
Analyze and resolve work-related problems, or partner with team members to resolve them.
Support career growth, internal movement, and constructive performance management.
Ensure associate issues and grievances are effectively handled.
Mentor and guide operational leaders.
Design collaborative initiatives to engage and inspire the team to achieve goals.
Provide timely coaching and corrective action to support team members in meeting performance goals.
Onboard new team members and support cross-functional learning to sustain production during personnel shortages.
Maintain time and production records and approve overtime when essential while keeping overtime at acceptable levels.
Collaborate with outside sales to ensure order accuracy and properly scheduled customer deliveries by Airgas trucks.
Monitor SAP reports daily, including open order and delivery reports, billing and delivery block reports, and open purchase order reports.
Oversee employee development in following Airgas Standard Operating Procedures and safety regulations.
Run recurring orders for the next day's deliveries.
Route trucks and PGI tickets.
Complete daily cycle counts.