Production Supervisor

Airgas•Painesville, OH

1d•$60,000 - $65,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Supervisor manages and oversees daily cylinder filling and trailer loading operations to support safe, efficient, and timely customer deliveries. This role ensures that all gas‑filling activities are executed with precision, minimal handling, and full compliance with safety and quality standards.

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. 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Performs filling operations according to operations plan : ensures filling start up and stop in a safe manner, follows the procedure and oversees parameters: connection and disconnection of the cylinders, the manipulation of all the valves needed to fill the cylinders or bundles with the right content, but also side tasks like analysis, batch numbering, stickers sticking, forms filling for traceability
Controls parameters, performs tests and checks physical data for optimized production in quality and quantity and ensures corrective operations while parameters are not optimized
Acts as first responder in emergency situation and initiates safety procedures & keeps the management informed for any safety and/or activity issue
Performs primary & secondary cylinder handling operations by performing operations according to plan for the empty cylinders, the unloading of the trucks, the selection (sorting) of the cylinders, the control of the test date and the overall aspect of the cylinder, and the positioning in the empty buffer zone waiting for filling. For the full cylinders, it includes the picking of the cylinders according to the customer’s orders, taking the cylinders from the full buffer zone or from the full stock, and the loading the trucks. All forklift activity linked to secondary distribution is included.
Ensures operations compliance to safety procedures
Respects the use of protective equipment.
Ensures that quality procedures for process and for final product analysis are respected in the day-to-day and takes care of fulfilment of analytic plans.
Fills the operations book and administrative documentation, enters all the daily production data in the system, ensures the tracking of production events, fills out and communicates incident reports and performs studying work of Standard Operating Procedures, P&ID's, PFD's, and all other technical documentation as related to plant specific equipment
Participates to the process improvement by detecting process and procedure improvement from incident analysis, detecting risk in situation and propose improvement and proposing changes regarding safety or productivity