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
The Production Assistant Manager will provide strategic operational oversight for all production operating facilities with moderate presence in multiple regions or moderate degree of complexity. In this role, you will oversee and hold operating facilities accountable to standards for safety, quality, operational effectiveness and financial performance.
Key Accountabilities
1. Execute routine operations of assigned area, ensuring direct reports are following policies and procedures related to employee, food and feed safety and environmental compliance.
2. Monitor production outcomes, quantity, and quality to ensure customer and food safety requirements are within specifications.
3. Partner with production supervisors to meet customer specifications and timeline.
4. Administer production budget for a department, process, or shift and executes purchase orders and ensures timely payment of invoices
5. Develop operational plans and monitors routine operations for all production processes for multiple departments, processes and shifts.
6. Develop, supervise and provide coaching to direct reports including coaching company core values and guiding principles for assigned facilities or region.
7. Responsible for personnel decisions related to hiring, performance and disciplinary actions for your direct reports. You will also spend time completing the same tasks as employees on your team.
8. Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
9. Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
10. Excellent leadership and communication skills and the ability to communicate with all levels in the plant
Preferred Qualifications
11. Experience as supervisor
12. Experience in production and warehouse management
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Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.