Assembly Production Manager

At Air Products we reimagine whats possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter we create solutions that launch people into space support lifesaving care in hospitals and enable the construction of groundbreaking world scale production facilities.

Reimagine Whats Possible

Do you have a passion for leading high-performing manufacturing teams driving operational excellence and delivering world-class quality in a fast-paced production environment Air Products is seeking an Assembly Production Manager to lead our membrane module assembly operations at our St. Louis manufacturing this critical leadership role you will oversee the safe efficient and quality-compliant assembly and testing of products that serve aerospace defense industrial gas marine petrochemical and specialty market applications. As the final step before products reach our customers this role plays a vital part in ensuring exceptional quality reliability and on-time delivery while supporting continued business growth.

Required Skills:

• Lead and promote a strong safety culture across all assembly operations ensuring compliance with Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) standards Basic Safety Process (BSP) requirements and corporate safety initiatives.
• Direct multi-shift production activities across multiple assembly product lines ensuring throughput schedule adherence and on-time delivery commitments are consistently achieved.
• Drive quality excellence by maintaining rigorous assembly testing and documentation standards while ensuring compliance with AS9100 and customer-specific requirements.
• Lead root cause investigations corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives to eliminate defects and prevent quality escapes.
• Manage develop and mentor a workforce of approximately 90 employees including supervisors and team leads fostering a culture of accountability engagement and continuous learning.
• Partner with Engineering Quality Commercial Planning and Product Development teams to support customer requirements new product introductions and operational improvements.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve productivity reduce waste optimize labor utilization and increase manufacturing efficiency using Lean principles and data-driven decision making.
• Support capacity expansion and growth initiatives through effective workforce planning onboarding training and certification programs.
• Oversee assembly tooling test equipment and production assets through leadership of the Equipment Reliability function ensuring reliability and uptime targets are met.
• Participate in capital planning efforts by identifying production bottlenecks developing business cases and supporting the execution of approved improvement projects.
• Monitor and analyze key performance indicators including labor efficiency scrap utilization cycle time schedule adherence quality performance and cost management.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering (Mechanical Manufacturing Industrial or related discipline) or equivalent manufacturing leadership experience.
• Minimum 7 years of progressive manufacturing production or assembly leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success leading large multi-shift teams in a manufacturing or assembly environment.
• Strong understanding of quality management systems preferably AS9100 or similar regulated manufacturing standards.
• Experience supporting multiple product lines with varying customer requirements and production processes.
• Proven track record in Lean Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Root Cause Analysis and operational excellence initiatives.
• Strong KPI-driven leadership skills with experience utilizing standard work and visual management systems.
• Exceptional communication coaching and team development capabilities.
• Experience partnering with Engineering Commercial Quality and Product Development teams.
• SAP and Workday experience preferred.

• Safety-first mindset with a demonstrated commitment to employee well-being.

Whats In It for You:

At Air Products we foster a culture of inclusion where every voice is heard and everyone feels they belong and matter. Additionally we offer competitive pay and great benefits for our employees.

Check out some of our benefits below!

Affordable medical dental and vision insurance available day one of employment

401(k) retirement savings plan with 100% vested company core and match

Paid vacation holidays and sick time

Adoption assistance

Flexible spending accounts

Life Insurance (AD&D) Supplemental AD&D

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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Founded in 1940 Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation operational excellence with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine whats possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers our communities and the world.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (U.S.).You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion national origin age citizenship gender marital status pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity and expression disability or veteran status.

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Required Experience:

Manager