Job Description:

Description

Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is the leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products; and a leading U.S. supplier of ammonia products and process chemicals.

Dedicated to improving the performance of its more than one million customers, Airgas safely and reliably provides products, services and expertise through its more than 18,000 associates, over 1,100 locations, robust e-Business platform, and Airgas Total Access telesales channel. As an Air Liquide company, the world leader in gases, technology and services for Industry and Health, Airgas offers customers an unrivaled global footprint and industry-leading technology and innovations.

Airgas offers competitive base as well as a comprehensive benefit program including, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, holidays, sick day, short and long term disability. Learn more at:https://www.airgas.com/careers/employee-benefits

This position schedules freight shipments by common carrier, prepares shipping documents, receives incoming freight, and verifies cylinder delivery documents.

Responsibilities also include:

• Performs all job assignments in a safe manner according to Airgas SOPs.


• Schedules freight shipments using AFS logistics and Airgas SOPs.


• Prepares IATA documents for international shipments.


• Verifies that outgoing cylinder shipments are correctly labeled and comply with DOT requirements and Airgas SOPs.


• Counts and verifies cylinder and freight shipments for receipt into SAP, delivering documents to the plant production coordinator in a timely manner.


• Maintains an accurate inventory of stocked gas items and ensures that stocked cylinders are properly relieved from SAP inventory.


• Places incoming Raw Materials, CATS cylinders and COCs in the appropriate holding/quarantine locations. Notifies the production plant when Raw Materials, COCs and CATS cylinders are received in a timely manner.


• Moves cylinders by forklift to the pure plantfor deliveries on local routes and shuttles as necessary.


• Arranges local pick-up and delivery of full and empty raw materials for the Specialty Gas plant.


• Maintains Site Security at the main access gate to the Specialty Gas plant, allowing only approved contractors and vendors on site. Ensures that visitors to the Specialty Gas plant comply with site security rules and local PPE requirements.


• Assists with cylinder inventory as needed.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The position requires strong leadership skills, excellent attendance, attention to detail, and outstanding work ethics, including respect for coworkers and Airgas. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: High school degree or the equivalent with previous forklift and cylinder handling experience. IATA certification required.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and interpret documents such as Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or associates of the Company.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtracts, multiply, and divides in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle, feel, and operate cylinder valves; operate machinery; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The associate must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.To view the EEO is the Law poster, click here. 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 by contacting Human Resources at 855-269-5732.

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-accommodationrequest@airgas.com.

Job

:Operations

Employee Status

:Regular

Primary Location

:United States-Texas-LaPorte-77571

Schedule

:Full-time

Job Posting

:May 7, 2021, 8:39:37 PM Apply Now