Director - Advanced Fabrication

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The role involves overseeing operations, managing staff, ensuring quality standards are met, and implementing process improvements to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Job Responsibilities:
* Leadership & Management: Manage a team of welders, cutters, and assemblers, providing guidance and support in their daily tasks.
* Operational Efficiency: Oversee production processes to ensure they meet productivity targets while maintaining high-quality standards. Implement strategies to improve efficiency, such as optimizing equipment utilization or reducing waste.
* Quality Control: Establish procedures to monitor the quality of raw materials, finished products, and workmanship. Conduct regular inspections and audits to identify areas for improvement.
* Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline manufacturing processes through automation, tooling upgrades, or other means. Collaborate with engineering teams to implement these changes.
* Cost Reduction: Analyze production costs and identify opportunities to minimize expenses without compromising quality. Develop strategies to reduce material costs, labor costs, or overhead expenses.
* Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant safety regulations (such as OSHA) and environmental standards (EPA). Maintain records related to training, certification, and safety incidents.
* Customer Service: Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, addressing concerns and expectations promptly. Communicate regularly with project managers regarding project status, schedules, and budgets.

* Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, preferably in Welding, Metallurgy, or a related field. A diploma or equivalent experience may be considered.
* Experience: Proven experience in management within a fabrication environment, ideally in a supervisory role. Familiarity with advanced fabrication techniques and equipment is essential.
* Technical Skills: Proficient knowledge of welding processes (MIG, TIG, Arc), cutting methods (flame, plasma, waterjet), and metalworking practices. Strong understanding of metallurgical principles and properties of various metals.
* Business Acumen: Solid grasp of business management principles, including financial planning, resource allocation, and personnel management.
* Industry Knowledge: Broad awareness of industry trends, regulatory updates, and emerging technologies in advanced fabrication.
* Soft Skills: Effective communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities.
* Certifications: Relevant certifications in welding processes (e.g., AWS D1.1), safety protocols (OSHA 1910.252), or quality management systems (ISO 9001) are advantageous but not required.The role involves overseeing operations, managing staff, ensuring quality standards are met, and implementing process improvements to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

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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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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.

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