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Ardent Mills

Flour milling and plant-based ingredient supplier

Production Supervisor

Manufacturing & Production OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeAlton, IL, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree, or a high school diploma/GED equivalent with four years of production experience.
  • At least one year of experience with leadership responsibilities in an industrial environment such as milling, agriculture, food production, or an equivalent setting.
  • Demonstrated understanding of safety hazards and protocols.
  • Understanding of computerized maintenance management systems.
  • Ability to work at a computer and perform administrative and managerial tasks.
  • Ability to wear required personal protective equipment, including safety glasses, protective footwear, a hard hat, hearing protection, and, at times, a respirator or harness.
  • Ability to work a rotating schedule that includes nights, weekends, and holidays.
  • Ability to work in a machine-paced continuous process operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in hot or cold temperatures, indoors or outdoors, dusty conditions including wheat/gluten allergens, noisy environments, with equipment movement or vibration, and at elevated places.
  • Ability to safely perform frequent standing, walking, rotating, bending or stooping, twisting, crouching, kneeling, balancing, reaching, and lifting at varying heights and levels; frequent stair and ladder climbing; occasional lifting, shoveling, carrying, pushing, or pulling; and work in confined or elevated places.
  • Must be able to read and interpret instructions and technology and communicate effectively in English.
  • Must be willing to work alongside the team for long days across days, evenings, and nights, as well as weekends or holidays.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now and in the future.
  • Must pass a drug test and pre-employment background check, except where prohibited by law.
  • Must be clean-shaven when performing tasks requiring respiratory protection so respirators, including N-95 dust masks, can form a proper seal.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee and execute day-to-day packing, warehouse, and loading department operations, ensuring direct reports follow employee safety and food/feed safety policies and procedures.
  • Partner with Environment, Health and Safety and Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory experts to implement effective approaches for complying with corporate safety policies and procedures.
  • Monitor production outcomes, quantity, and quality to ensure customer and food safety requirements are within specifications, and recommend continuous improvements.
  • Participate in and lead process improvement initiatives, including Centerlining, Preventative Maintenance, Pristine, 5S, and ELEMEDS (Every Load, Every Mill, Every Day Safely).
  • Partner with local plant management to develop approaches for meeting and tracking efficiency standards, including scorecard and metrics control, total cost of maintenance, and monthly compliance-audit reviews.
  • Develop plans for future production workforce needs and participate in employee selection.
  • Take inventory counts, correct discrepancies, and provide corrective actions or investigations to resolve variances between digital and physical counts.
  • Be responsible for workforce engagement and recognition, and for the development and coaching of hourly team members.
  • Carry out activities reliably, with integrity, in compliance with requirements, and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of maintaining, operating, and troubleshooting packaging equipment and conveying systems.
  • Training in LEAN, Six Sigma, or other manufacturing and warehousing optimization processes.
  • Reliability-centered maintenance training focused on packaging equipment best practices.

About the Company

Ardent Mills

Flour milling and plant-based ingredient supplier

Ardent Mills operates a network of more than 35 community flour mills and mixing facilities across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico to produce and supply flours and grain ingredients to food manufacturers and bakeries. It mills and blends grains into multi-use flours and whole-grain ingredients, using farming, food technology, and milling expertise to support a range of food applications, including plant-based formulations. The company differentiates itself with a widespread, customer-focused mill network and a broad product line that emphasizes plant-based solutions, delivering integrated farming, processing, and product development in one partnership. Its goal is to transform how the world is nourished by expanding plant-based options and acting as a trusted partner across agriculture, technology, and milling.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Denver, CO
Founded
2014

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