UHP Gas Production Manager - Safety & Efficiency Leader

Matheson Tri-Gas; Joliet (IL); On-site; USD 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Nippon Sanso MATHESON in Joliet, IL is hiring a Production Manager to oversee the operations of ultra-high purity gas handling equipment. You will establish policies, train staff, ensure safety, and maintain production schedules to support efficient, compliant manufacturing.

The role requires 5–10 years in operations management, a related Bachelor’s degree, and experience with Six Sigma/Lean, CAD, PLC, and MRP systems. On-site leadership and collaboration with multiple functions are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management or Engineering from a four-year college or university.
• Five to Ten years related operations management experience and/or training preferably in site/branch operations and/or high purity equipment operations in the electronic gas industry.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Direct and coordinate plant operation within company policies and procedures.
• Leads the Safety Culture to a performance goal of zero accidents, zero incidents.
• Provides leadership to deliver a high level of personal and team safety performance and regulatory compliance.
• Establish and direct plant policies, processes, and procedures.
• Establish and maintain equipment and production schedules.
• Select and train plant supervisory, manufacturing, and administrative staff.
• Manage manufacturing of new equipment including implementing processes, procedures, infrastructure, budgeting and costs associated.
• In depth knowledge of working with and development of work instructions, process flow maps, and FMEA's.
• Establishes and run quality processes with metrics to measure quality performance.
• Manage production, purchasing, shipping, and inventory activities.
• Optimizes profitability of the area business by actively managing controllable expenses, local inventory and development of continuous improvement projects to generate hard cost savings/profit improvement as a function of War on Waste.
• Supports sales representatives in customer activities, new business acquisition, contract negotiations and customer service requirements.
• Coordinates and manages communications in the site and between Area, Region and Zone Management.
• Reports operations activity timely to MTG management.
• Manages semi-annual inventories.
• Conduct employee performance reviews.
• Perform other projects and duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Safety compliance

Six Sigma / Lean

UHP equipment knowledge

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Management or Engineering

Tools

3D CAD

PLC

MRP software

Job description

Nippon Sanso MATHESON in Joliet, IL is hiring a Production Manager to oversee the operations of ultra-high purity gas handling equipment. You will establish policies, train staff, ensure safety, and maintain production schedules to support efficient, compliant manufacturing.

The role requires 5–10 years in operations management, a related Bachelor’s degree, and experience with Six Sigma/Lean, CAD, PLC, and MRP systems. On-site leadership and collaboration with multiple functions are essential.