Plant Supervisor

Essential purpose of the position:

To supervise and manage production operations within the soybean crushing facility to optimize performance and ensure profitability.

Supervision Requirements:

• Direct supervision responsibilities for approximately 1215 hourly operations employees.
• Education and Experience Requirements
• BS degree (Agriculture, Management, Business, or Engineering) a minimum of 5 years work experience. 10 years of relevant work experience could be substituted for degree.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the crushing staff to include training and developing the staff to meet the needs of the business.
• Lead and manage safety programs to ensure safe working conditions for all employees and compliance with all local, state, and federal requirements.
• Lead and manage environmental programs to ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal requirements.
• Lead and manage maintaining high sanitation and housekeeping practices around the facility.
• Manage production operations to ensure maximum equipment and personnel utilization. This includes, but is not limited to: identifying process improvement opportunities, energy saving opportunities, and cost improvement opportunities. Also, assist in providing leadership support for shipping and receiving departments.
• Manage product quality to ensure customer requirements and specifications are attained.
• Manage routine and preventative maintenance programs for the production operations to ensure efficient operation.
• Support plant leadership is developing production schedules and managing capital projects.
• Communicate professionally with leadership, colleagues, direct reports, customers, and vendors.
• Perform job functions within established cGMP’s.
• Perform other tasks as assigned.

Time Expectations/Details:

• The position is salary with no overtime pay.
• Typical hours will be 7 AM 4 PM, Monday thru Friday. However, the position includes afterhours night and weekend oncall responsibilities to support the plant if issues arise. The oncall duties will be approximately every 34 weeks.

About White River Nutrition

White River Nutrition develops and operates oilseed processing facilities in the U.S. With a commitment to excellence in production and safety for our employees, our team leverages decades of experience in soybean processing and is driven to produce the highest quality vegetable protein meal and oil for better nutritional outcomes. We are passionate about building lasting partnerships with farmers, contributing to our communities, and delivering superior soybean products to our customers.