SG Production

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?Air Liquide is looking for an experienced and strategic leader to join our Speciality Gases team as a Production and Lab Manager. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced individual with a proven track record in a production environment.

As our Production and Lab Manager you will be responsible for the safe and efficient execution of all production works orders and laboratory processes in our facility.

You will be the operational backbone of our Tunstall facility, ensuring flawless execution from point of issue in planning, to handing over to warehousing and shipping teams. Your core responsibilities will include:

• Act as the figurehead for process safety and safety culture, proactively seeking improvements, challenging unsafe practices, and ensuring all activities comply with all ISO, EH&S, and regulatory requirements.

• Oversee the safe and efficient execution of all production works orders across the various departments (Floxfill, Acublend, cylinder prep, transfill, and Non Flam), ensuring required volumes, quality, and timescales are consistently met.

• Design, embed, and manage robust processes to facilitate communication and workflow, including defining uniform gas mixing methodologies to ensure a repeatable and measurable process across all steps.

• Identify and execute opportunities to gain efficiencies in lead time, quality, and operating cost, while also introducing and reporting on key Production KPI's to drive continuous improvement.

• Utilise your working knowledge of gas mixing, transfill, and lab processes to provide practical support, investigate quality failures alongside the Quality Team, and make recommendations for equipment upgrades.

• Be fully responsible for the management of all employees in the Production and Lab teams, covering talent management, performance management, training, and all pastoral topics including recruitment, onboarding, discipline and offboarding. 

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The ideal candidate for this role will be a strong decision maker, and a safety-minded leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You'll be able to work effectively under pressure and to targets with excellent time management skills. 

We also look for: 

• Demonstrable experience working in a leadership role in a production environment, with proven success in managing teams of 10 or more people.

• Extensive experience working in high-risk environments and working in accordance with H&S principles and mechanisms.

• Ability to manage and balance both physical and human resources to accomplish plans in a dynamic and changeable production environment.

• Basic knowledge of pressure systems and an aptitude for learning about the equipment we use and how it must be maintained.

• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills and be fully conversant with core IT applications such as emails, spreadsheets, presentations, and ERP

• Experience in specialist gas, packages and manufacturing methods would be highly desirable 

• Qualifications such as IOSH and NEBOSH are also desirable 

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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.

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