R10041661 Plant Manager (Open) Location: Casper, WY - Filling industrial How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW? Navigate your career @ Airgas Enrich your experience with a new step in your professional journey! Airgas encourages internal mobility. Developing yourself into new roles within our organization is key to our Talent Management strategy. We believe in you and the value you bring to our company. Position Title: Plant Manager Casper, WY Monday through Friday (occasional weekend) Manages and coordinates activities at the Casper, WY location, producing and repackaging compressed liquid gasses into cylinders and managing plant and distribution activities. The Plant Manager corrects unsafe acts or conditions without delay. Assigns job tasks to employees according to customer needs, current stock levels and worker’s expertise. Studies production schedule and estimates worker-hour requirements for completion of job assignment. Interprets company policies to employees and enforces safety regulations. Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules, using knowledge of capacities of machines and equipment. 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. Analyzes and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems. Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals. Recommends or initiates personnel actions, such as promotions, transfers, discharges and disciplinary measures. The Plant Manager maintains time, production records, and any other records required to manage production plant activities. ESSENTIAL DUTIES Operate and safely maintain a plant for packaging gasses into cylinders while ensuring compliance with all federal, state, local and company policies, procedures, regulations and laws. Conduct periodic checks of the plant for safe and efficient operation. Ensure all injuries and accidents are properly investigated and reported within 24 hours. Resolve problems associated with plant operation. Ensure all safety rules are strictly observed and safety training is regularly scheduled, conducted and documented. Provide coaching and corrective action promptly, to ensure that poor performers are identified, documented and improved to acceptable performance, or discharged. Approve overtime when essential, while keeping overtime at acceptable levels. Ensure employee complaints, issues, etc. are effectively handled. Operate a forklift, pallet jack and other warehouse equipment. Take care of critical decisions while following company procedures. Be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace. Make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal. Possess the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task. Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one’s conduct. Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety. Self Motivated to perform a task to the best of one’s ability using his or her own drive or initiative. Utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Prefer Associates or Bachelors Degree plus five (5) years industry experience. ________________________ Are you a MATCH? Are you a MATCH? 5 years experience supervising, motivating and leading first level supervisors and other employees, preferably in a manufacturing environment. Experience with FDA, OSHA, and DOT requirements. Working knowledge of blending mixtures and oxidizers as well as other non-compatible gases. Ability to understand CFR49, Parts 100-177 and have the ability to apply these regulations. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organization, documentation and follow-up skills. Mechanical aptitude. Computer skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office or similar software. Ability to perform work during prolonged standing up to 8 hours; frequent bending, stooping, crouching, reaching, grasping, feeling and repetitive motion also required. Ability to perform work during occasional climbing, balancing, kneeling, pushing, pulling activities. Ability to read and comprehend safety data sheets. Ability to work independently and under pressure to meet deadlines. Must be able to work a flexible schedule to meet management requirements and customer expectations. Must have excellent people skills. Must be able to work outdoors in temperatures ranging from –10 to over 100 degrees. Ability to perform heavy work – routinely lifts 25 – 75 lbs., and occasionally lifts 76 to greater than 100 lbs. Must be able to safely drive a forklift. _________________________ 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. _________________________ 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. _________________________ California Privacy Notice Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products. Through the passion and diversity of its 18,000 associates, Airgas fosters a culture of safety, customer success, sustainability and innovation. Airgas associates are empowered to share ideas, take initiative and make decisions. Airgas is a subsidiary of Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health. Air Liquide is present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 associates globally. 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