Production Manager

Company: Airgas
Location: Cherry Hill
Posted on: May 1, 2025

Job Description:

R10067277 Production Manager (Open)

Location:
Cherry Hill, NJ - Filling industrial

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The Production Manager leads and directs the day to day operations of acetylene, hydrogen and propane production. The Production Manager is responsible for building and maintaining the facility's safety culture and performance, delivering and maintaining compliance within the facility, maintaining correct staffing levels and performance, and inventory management and control.
--- Supervise day-to-day activities for a segment within the industrial and spec distribution and gas filling operations.
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--- Assist in managing all gas cylinder processing and monitor compliance with FDA, DOT, OSHA, and EPA regulations.
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--- Promote a strong safety and compliance culture by correcting unsafe acts or conditions immediately.
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--- Assign tasks to workers based on customer needs, stock levels, and worker expertise.
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--- Analyze production schedules and estimate worker-hour requirements for job assignments.
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--- Implement measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and product quality.
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--- Train new workers and cross-train employees to maintain production during personnel shortages.
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--- Coordinate inventory levels of supplies and equipment.
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--- Analyze and resolve work problems or assist workers in problem-solving.

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Are you a MATCH?

To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a Science, Business or related degree field required. In lieu of degree, consideration for up to 4 years of additional related experience may be accepted.
  
  Required Length & Type of Experience:
  
  • A minimum of 2 years of demonstrated experience working in a leadership role within a distribution environment. Prefer prior technical experience with compressed gases, gas analysis and gas lab equipment.
    
  • Prior experience utilizing SAP preferred.
    
    Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
    
    • Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, and Outlook).
      
    • Knowledge of compliance related to Department of Transportation (DOT), Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), SAFECORE, and other business related compliance activities.
      
    • 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.
      
      
      Physical Demands:
      
      The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
      
      • Employee may be required to remain stationary for extended periods of time.
        
      • Employee may occasionally be required to transverse through office and/or manufacturing locations.
        
      • Employee will frequently be required to actively listen and exchange information.
        
      • Employee will be required to observe and assess information received via computer.
        
      • 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.
        
        
        Work Environment:
        
        The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
        
        • 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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