Senior production manager

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

Job Purpose and Impact

As a Production Manager you will be a part of a business operations leadership team that oversees production of animal nutrition products as efficiently as possible across multiple manufacturing locations while meeting all of Animal Nutrition and Health, Cargill corporate and government guidelines. This will include your involvement in promoting and maintaining a culture of safety, leading production management practices, personnel management, setting performance standards, establishing budgets, managing costs, employee relations, assisting with the management of capital projects, and implementation of reliability, continuous improvement and customer service excellence.

Key Accountabilities

• 20% Environmental Health and Safety; Food Safety, Quality, and Regulatory
  • Influence and support a culture of safety.
  • Support implementation of safety plans.
  • Support activities to ensure EHS audit compliance.
  • Support implementation of food safety and quality plans.
  • Support activities to ensure food safety and quality compliance.
• 30% Leadership
  • Lead through cause analysis to address root causes.
  • Leading continuous improvement projects/programs via both direct and remote influence.
  • Champion key initiatives across multiple manufacturing locations.
  • Temporary fill in for plant manager transitions as needed.
• 50% Manufacturing Excellence
  • Support execution of continuous improvement/production efficiency/reliability projects across multiple manufacturing locations.
  • Support execution of assigned capital projects.
  • Work on projects involving other functions of the business or other plants as assigned.

This position requires up to 50% travel across multiple plant locations within the region.

Qualifications

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years supervisory/management experience in a operations environment
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills.
• Demonstated knowledge and experience with people management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Demonstrated success in EHS compliance management (environmental health and safety)
• Strong computer skills
• Demonstrated maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong problem solving and decision making skills

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet