Plant Superintendent

About This Role

Lead day-to-day operations at the Decatur Corn Plant to safely produce high-quality products, ensuring compliance with all state and federal regulations. This role involves partnering with commercial business leaders and being part of the plant's Leadership Team.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations to safely produce high quality products that provide value to customers and a return to shareholders
• Meet all state and federal laws and regulatory agencies (OSHA, EPA, DNR, HACCP, GMP, etc.)
• Partner with commercial business unit leaders to align on supply and demand needs
• Promote continuous process safety improvement and a safety culture
• Ensure successful day-to-day operation in the processing facility delivering on production and costs targets
• Partner with the engineering team to drive optimization and efficiency improvements
• Align with department superintendents and maintenance team to deliver reliable production systems
• Troubleshoot production problems, optimizing yields, productivity and cost control
• Provide guidance, coaching and mentorship to department leadership teams
• Utilize Continuous Improvement principles to drive plant operation performance
• Manage chemical usages, energy usages, production costs and focus on efficiency improvement
• Interact directly with Shift Supervisors to produce desired operational results and employee development
• Assure training and development of all plant operation employees
• Involved in employee coaching and discipline

Requirements

• Dedication to working safely and to the awareness for the safety of others
• Leading and developing high performing work teams including maintenance, engineering and non-technical employees
• Strong knowledge of the corn wet milling processes including processes such Feehouse operations, Syrup Refinery, Polyol production and Ethanol production
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for working with plant engineers, maintenance and management
• Willingness to spend time in plant areas – tolerate extreme temperatures, walk long distances, stand, climb stairs and ladders and move through close spaces
• High level of motivation with metrics and results-oriented ways of working
• Bachelor's Degree in the field of Engineering, preferably Chemical
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a production leadership role
• 4 years of experience in a continuous operation technical role

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in the field of Engineering, preferably Chemical
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a production leadership role, with 4 years in a continuous operation technical role.

Nice to Have

• Knowledgeable of PSM programs
• Operations leadership experience in a Corn Wet Mill processing facility
• Experience with application of Continuous Improvement principles in a continuous production manufacturing environment

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits