Filler - Full-time / Part-time

Discover an exciting Career with
Airgas! Airgas USA, LLC, an Air Liquide company, is the nation’s leading
single-source supplier of gases, welding, and safety products. Known
locally nationwide, our distribution network serves more than one million
customers of all sizes with a broad offering of top-quality products and
unmatched expertise.

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The Cylinder Filler will
be responsible for safely handling and filling gas products into liquid,
medical and high pressure gas cylinders in compliance with federal, state,
local regulations, and meeting the standard operating procedures of Airgas.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Inspects cylinders prior to filling, following standard procedures
  as required by government, Airgas, and distributor standards. Conducts a
  variety of Safety checks per procedures, such as odor tests, checking caps and
  valves. Analyzes products for purity and correct mixtures.
• Handles high-pressure, medical and
  liquid cylinders. Prepares high pressure
  cylinders and cryogenic vessels for filling. Attaches to manifold, evacuates
  cylinders to eliminate all possible contaminants. Fills cylinders by pressure
  and weight, per regulations and standards.
• Assists with the loading & unloading
  of cylinders on & off pallets and tractor trailers.
  Operates a forklift, pallet jack and other warehouse equipment.
• Manages paperwork to DOT, FDA, OSHA,
  and Airgas standards. Completes quality control sheets as required.
• Understands hazards of various gases; size and contents of
  cylinders by reading and interpreting cylinder labels and the color-coding of
  tanks. Accurately labels cylinders.
• Complies with all government and company standards relating to the
  safe handling of hazardous materials/cylinder gases.
• Maintains a neat, clean and orderly plant appearance.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to
perform each job duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge,
skills, and/or abilities required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Required Education:

• HS Diploma or equivalent preferred.

Required Length & Type of Experience:

• Minimum of one year of prior experience in a manufacturing
  operation, filling or loading experience preferred.
• Strong background in gas, welding and safety supply industry
  or chemical industry preferred.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to read and comprehend material safety data
  sheets.
• Must be able to work with a wide variety of people
  with different personalities and backgrounds.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently and under some
  pressure to meet deadlines.
• Strong level of attention to detail.
• Ability to add, subtracts, multiply, and divides in
  all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentages.
• Ability to safely operate a forklift.

The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical
demands required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties
of this position. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform
the essential duties.

• Able
  to talk, walk, sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or
  controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crawl or crouch.
• Specific
  vision abilities to include close vision, distance vision, color vision,
  peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus objects.
• Regularly required to stand, bend,
  stoop, crouch, reach, grasp, feel and talk or hear.
• Able
  to smell and hear leaking gas from cylinders.
• Occasionally required to walk; use
  hands to finger, handle, feel or use a calculator or computer; and reach with
  hands and arms
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 60
  pounds and move up to 800 pounds with the aid of material handling equipment.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The characteristics listed below are representative of the work
environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the
essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Minimal travel
  required.
• Work space is one that contains
  moving mechanical parts and risk of electric shock.
• Requires both indoor & outdoor
  environments in various seasonal weather conditions. Must be able to work in
  temperatures ranging from -10 to over 100 degrees.
• Work environment may contain loud noises and odors that may last
  for long periods of time or on a continual basis.

NOTE: The above stated duties are intended to outline those functions
typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to
be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of supervisors to assign
other tasks of similar nature or level of responsibility.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, protected veteran status or disability