Airgas is hiring a Production Lead in Chicago, IL. The Production Lead collaborates with and mentors the afternoon shift team across all facility operations while participating in an active role in both blending and analysis of specialty gas mixes. This includes coordinating the analysis and blending of specialty gas mixes, the filling of pure gas cylinders, and the comprehensive preparation of cylinders for various applications, contributing to safe and efficient production.
Requirements
- Promotes safety and safety practices among assigned team members.
- Ensures adherence to company policies including safety and the use of personal protective equipment.
- Guides shift of plant operators to reach production goals.
- Collaborates on plant activities to support excellent efficiency and flow of operations for the optimization of production.
- Provides training and mentorship for associates on prefilling, filling, blending and analytical operations at the plant.
- Experience with operating vacuum pumps, cryogenic pumps, and compressors.
- Experience with addressing challenges and performing basic equipment maintenance.
- Experience with operating production equipment including manual and automated blending systems.
- Perform analyses of gases using analytical instrumentation.
- Performs routine production testing and quality control analysis of specialty gas mixtures and pure gases.
- Contribute to the development, modification, and validation of test methods.
- Assisting in the set up and maintenance of laboratory instruments and keeping maintenance records for laboratory instruments per Airgas SOPs.
- Promote quality alignment with standard operating procedure manual requirements.
- Maintains neat, clean and orderly plant appearance.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Pre-tax commuter transportation benefit
- Parental leave
- Vacation
- Sick time
- Floating holidays
- Jury duty and funeral/bereavement leave
- Paid holidays
- 401k plan with company matching funds
- Tuition reimbursement
- Discounted college tuition for eligible employees' dependents
- Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children
