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Plant Manager (Packaged Gases), Děčín

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📍 Location: Czech Republic – Děčín
📄 Type of Contract: Permanent
💼 Experience: Previous Plant Management experience with strong people and operations leadership background
🎓 Education: Bachelor’s or University degree, preferably in technical disciplines (production or management)

Join our Team! Join Air Products!

We are looking for a Plant Manager to lead our Packaged Gases/PG production plant in Děčín, Czech Republic.

This role is responsible for managing plant operations, ensuring high performance in safety, quality, service, and cost efficiency. The successful candidate will lead a team of supervisors and operators, drive operational excellence, and ensure full compliance with company standards and local regulations.

As the PG Plant Manager, you will:

• Lead and develop a team of Shift Supervisors and Operators, setting goals and ensuring performance against KPIs
• Manage plant operations to ensure production targets, customer delivery, and service requirements are met
• Oversee financial performance, including budget management and cost optimisation
• Drive productivity improvements and implement operational excellence initiatives
• Ensure full compliance with safety standards and promote a strong safety culture aligned with the Zero Accident goal
• Ensure adherence to quality standards, including medical and food grade gas requirements
• Manage site resources, maintenance, and contingency planning to ensure operational continuity
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across operations, sales, EHS, supply chain, and quality functions

As the PG Plant Manager, you already are or have:

• Previous plant management or production leadership experience
• Strong people management experience, ideally managing supervisors and operational teams
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across functions
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to work under pressure and manage changing priorities
• Strong safety mindset and commitment to compliance standards
• Analytical skills and experience working with operational data
• Good knowledge of MS Office and SAP systems
• Fluency in English; knowledge of Czech regulations and local environment is required for this role

What we offer:

• A collaborative and inclusive working environment
• Opportunities to lead and develop high-performing teams
• Career development and learning opportunities across Europe
• Competitive compensation and benefits package

Pay Transparency Statement

We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices. Compensation decisions are based on objective, role related criteria such as experience, education, skills and assessed competencies.
Each role has an established pay range. Individual offers are determined within this range. The applicable pay range will be shared with you during the introductory call.

How to apply

To get back to you on your application in a compliant, fast, and efficient way, we look forward to receiving your application via the APPLY option on our website or the job board where this role is posted.

Please note that this vacancy will remain advertised until the recruitment process is completed and an offer is made to the selected candidate. Until then, the job advertisement may be automatically refreshed or re-posted on the platforms where it was originally published.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status.

At Air Products, we work in an environment where inclusion is our culture and each person knows they belong and matter.

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Talent Acquisition Team at Air Products

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 what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.