Specialty Gas Plant Manager

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

At Air Liquide, 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.

Recruiter:  Deepika Chawla / [email protected] / 780-239-7391

                                                                
Air Liquide is currently in need of a Specialty Gas Plant Manager who will be responsible for managing SPG plant cylinder production & Lab activities to achieve optimum operating performance consistent with the corporate philosophy, business strategies and operating plans. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a well-established, incredibly safety conscious organization that offers a dynamic role, directly contributing to the growth of Air Liquide and customer satisfaction while ensuring the coaching and development of the team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plans daily production activities: Establishes the daily production action plan and makes the necessary modifications to it while driving the efficiency of operations. Establishes production standards and controls quality in cooperation with the team. Assesses the priority of customer orders. Establishes and tracks performance indicators.

• Analyzes production follow-up: Reviews and analyzes production reports, maintenance and quality reports in order to determine the causes of non-compliance with product specifications and all operating or production problems. Determines the actions to be taken to improve operations.

• Controls operations: Leads team to ensure operating procedures, safety and quality plans are respected and followed. Coordinates any administrative report with the corresponding operation. Coordinates investigations regarding accidents and related activities. 

• Ensures coaching and team development: Provides training and coaching for the members of the team to ensure that objectives are attained. Develops technical training plans for the group concerned and sees that they are implemented. Conducts performance reviews of the team members and gives them feedback. 

• Communicates internally: Knows how to deal with the employees effectively so as to ensure optimal operations, giving priority to the requirements and expectations of the customers. Is attentive to the needs and concerns of other members of the team and related departments. Transmits the information and communicates to ensure that experience is shared. Makes his knowledge and know-how available. 

• Ensures technical process improvement: Leads his team and multi-functional teams drive continuous improvement in work processes. Analyzes his activities, identifies causes of problems and proposes adapted corrective measures.

• Safety / Quality: Leads team by improving and promoting occupational health and safety principles. Encourages safe behavior. Knows and respects all of the procedures provided in the ALMS (Air Liquide Management System). Knows and look at the application of the IMS Program. Do the day to day obligations into the Intellex system and into the training software (LMS). Implements adequate corrective and preventive measures following customer claims 

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Are you a MATCH?

• 5+ years of previous progressive and leadership experience within an industrial Management role.
• A preferred chemical background would be highly beneficial for lab-related tasks and troubleshooting.
• Excellent business acumen and operational management skills.
• Demonstrated people leadership skills with proven ability to lead and motivate, while being able to foster positive relationships across the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to set and achieve production and project management targets in accordance with quality, cost and time requirements.
• Demonstrated capabilities to run an operating unit, including strong conceptual, planning, negotiating, problem-solving, strategy development and execution skills.

OTHER COMPETENCIES
                                                                                                                                             

• Team Player: Shares knowledge and experience, cooperates and makes self available, listens, gathers information, takes into consideration the needs, ideas, opinions of others
• Problem-Solving: Identifies problem situations within an appropriate time frame, develops several alternative solutions to problems, analyzes situations and highlights important issues, suggests adequate, valuable and feasible solutions.
• Leadership: Positively influences others, easily obtains cooperation from others, is concerned with people as much as with results
• Coaching skills: Clearly establishes measurable performance indicators, followup and provide feedback, finds solutions to problems by consulting team members, understands and listens to the concerns of all individual team members, gives ideas in clear and appropriate language. Strong communication and conflict resolution skills.
• Technical abilities: Masters concepts, tools and methods related to his/her job, meets or exceeds professional requirements of his/her field of work, keeps abreast of progress in his/her field. Has a strong understanding of ISO requirements.
• Computer/Software Competency: Strong computer skills in MS Office, Google, and/or SAP environments, and can easily assimilate new technologies with ERP systems. 
• Planning skills: Defines objectives and the means to achieve them, determines all required resources, anticipates future situations and establishes work plans, efficiently allocates or makes use of available resources, acts according to plans and establishes priorities, uses efficient methods, systems and work tools and has experience in management of change..
   

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build 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 background. 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.