Veterans Preferred - Operations Trainee

Company: Airgas
Location: Nashville
Posted on: April 6, 2025

Job Description:

Military Veterans are Encouraged to Apply. -R10065912 Operations Trainee (Evergreen) (Open)

Location:
Nashville, TN - Centennial - Filling industrial

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

As a qualification for this position, the Operations Trainee will be placed in a local fill plant and must
successfully complete a comprehensive training program that will give them a working knowledge of
our industry, our customers and our organization. In addition, this program is designed around plant
oriented and professional development training to ensure that, once completed; the Trainee will be
able to meet the demanding challenges of this position. Upon completion of the program, the
Trainee will be required to meet and exceed both divisional and regional objectives for streamlining
logistics, optimization of resources, managing human capital, and above all, managing safety
standards of an Airgas plant.
Attend and successfully complete all training modules provided by Airgas in the development
role to include:
Operate and safely maintain a generation plant for packaging gases into cylinders while
ensuring compliance with all federal, state, local regulations, and company policies and
procedures.
Schedule and direct safety meetings.
Coordinate testing and maintenance needs to production demands, working in conjunction
with Production and Distribution managers.
Assign cylinder warehousing.
Maintain quality control and other required records (DOT, FDA, EPA, Airgas, etc.)
Assign training for all cylinder testers and cylinder maintenance personnel.
Capture testing and maintenance data using corporate approved spreadsheet.
Develop plans for an effective preventative maintenance program for all testing and
maintenance equipment.
Develop a tracking system for all cylinders received from and shipped to other locations.
Prepare budgets for staffing, equipment, and facility improvement needs.
Maintain a safe and clean workplace.
Ensure all injuries and accidents are properly investigated and reported within 24 hours.
Ensure all safety rules are strictly observed and safety training is regularly scheduled,
conducted and documented.
Provide coaching and corrective action promptly, to ensure that poor performers are
identified, documented and improved to acceptable performance, or released.
Approve overtime when essential, while keeping overtime at acceptable levels.
Ensure employee complaints, safety concerns, grievances, etc., are effectively handled.
Supervises cylinder re-testing and certification.
Reports any equipment or facility defects to Operations Management.

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Are you a MATCH?

Bachelor's degree preferred, combination of college training and experience will be
considered.
Proficient computer skills, especially in Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Mail)
Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently
Ability to lead and function within team environments
Ability to work independently
Professional communication skills (verbal and written)
Basic product knowledge of welding, safety, gases and supplies is preferred
Proficiency in time management and organization skills
Strong leadership skills
Astute problem solving skills and administrative accuracy
Must be able to work outdoors in varied temperatures ranging from 20 -F to +105 -F.
Must be able to wear required personal protective equipment.
Ability to occasionally lift 25 to 75 lb.
Occasional bending, stooping, crouching, reaching, grasping, feeling and repetitive motion
required.

Ability to perform work doing occasional climbing, balancing, kneeling, pushing, pulling, and
finger activities.
Talk to and hear customers/co-workers as well as smell/hear leaking gas from cylinders.

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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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