Country View Family Farms is hiring a Vice President of Supply Chain & Feed Operations in Middletown, PA. This role leads feed milling operations, enhancing efficiency annually. Responsibilities include overseeing CVFF feed milling strategies, procurement strategies, and nutritional standards company-wide. Candidates need a Bachelor of Science and 5 years in feed milling management, with strong leadership and analytical skills. Apply now!
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Operations Management

• Ensure that YOY feed milling efficiencies and costs are improved upon and are accomplished each year
• Ensure that all ingredient sampling programs at all mills and toll mills are followed
• Ensure that the QA programs are followed at all mills and toll mills
• Ensure that feed delivery equipment and head count is in place to deliver all feed as required all the time
• Ensure execution of feed sampling programs
• Ensure Micron grind size and PDI standards are met at all mills and toll mills
• Communicate any quality issues with the procurement and nutrition teams.
• Ensure all BMPs are compliant at all mills and toll mills
• Ensure compliance to the FSMA program at all mills and toll mills
• Ensure all environmental regulations are in compliance at all mill and toll mills
• Ensure the biosecurity program is followed at all mills and toll mills
• Ensure the safety program is followed for feed manufacturing and feed delivery team
• Work closely with Feed delivery operations to ensure prompt and accurate delivery every time.
• Review the utility rates for all mills, to be competitive
• Negotiate all toll mill rates and feed delivery rates, and controllable savings are achieved.
• Establish KPI's for all operating areas for feed milling, procurement and nutrition
• Directly supervise all feed operations, all locations and toll mills to budget
• Ensure VFD compliance at all mills and toll mills

Procurement

• Be accountable for overall ingredient cost for all toll millers
• Participate in risk management of ingredients for CVFF/CFG
• Review the forecasting of feed ingredient needs by mill
• Ensure ingredient delivery, and ensure minimum inventory levels are met at all mills
• Ensure maintaining market intelligence for strategic ingredient purchasing decisions
• Be responsible for both macro and macro ingredients at all times all mills
• Be responsible for strategic programs around ingredient pricing and working with growers
• Lead negotiations with strategic suppliers
• Be responsible for incoming ingredient quality and communicating to nutrition and operations
• Ensure safe sourcing of ingredients (bio secure)
• Ensure good communicate both short term and long term of ingredient opportunities with nutrition and operations
• Build business plans for future investments around ingredient procurement
• Ensure the annual budgeting of feed ingredient needs is accurate
• Ensure the quarterly forecasting of feed ingredients is accurate, and YOY controllable savings are achieved

Nutrition

• Be accountable for all nutrition requirements are being met at all mills all the time.
• Review all formulations to main genetic requirements
• Review all research trial protocols for effectiveness
• Ensure YOY nutritional controllable savings are achieved
• Ensure that good communications are achieved with the production team as customers all times

Strategic Planning

• Ensure accurate growth capital needs for feed milling locations
• Develop and lead the annual business planning process
• Annual budgeting and quarterly forecast
• Participate in annual planning for CVFF and CFG as required
• Lead strategic planning for these 3 areas
• Participate in strategic planning (3-5 year planning) for CVFF/CFG
• Be involved in feed industry networking to ensure BMPs are understood

CVFF / CFG Team

• Ensure the overall 3 depts. controllable savings targets are achieved
• Be engaged in the coaching of direct reports
• Be engaged in the succession planning for area
• Ensure effectiveness of all training programs
• Participate in all CVFF area meetings
• Conduct Performance Management of all direct reports
• Participate in production leadership meetings
• Ensure customer satisfaction from pork production team in all areas

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or equivalent from four-year college or a degree from an accredited technical school; or a minimum of five years related experiences and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 5 years of feed milling management experience.
• Practical knowledge and experience in animal nutrition/ ingredient procurement.
• Position requires living within proximity of the production facilities (Middletown, PA).
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Must understand that the Company is a producer of high quality pork and be supportive of the mission of raising swine for meat.
• Must be willing to learn and perform the responsibilities described within CVFF's process manual.
• Must have experience with Microsoft Office Suite
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Edit as necessary

• Meet all bio-security requirements as outlined by Animal Care policy/ procedure.
• Consistent and reliable adherence to Animal Welfare requirements and Code of Conduct.
• Adhere to CVFF/ CLEMENS FOOD GROUP Mission, Vision, and Values.
• Complete all other tasks as assigned.

DISCLAIMER
The Team Member must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable Team Members with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.
As requirements and Team Member skill levels change, the Supervisor may revise and/ or add duties to reflect these changes.The company retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.