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Ardent Mills

Flour milling and plant-based ingredient supplier

Assistant Head Miller

Manufacturing & Production OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCommerce City, CO, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with 1–2 years of milling and leadership experience, or a high school diploma/GED with 5–6 years of milling and leadership experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to create and modify computer-aided design (CAD) drawings of mill layouts, equipment components, and flowsheets.
  • Basic knowledge of maintaining, operating, and troubleshooting cleaning, milling, and conveying systems.
  • Basic knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems.
  • Ability to wear required personal protective equipment, including safety glasses, protective footwear, hearing protection, and, at times, a respirator.
  • Ability to work a rotating schedule that includes nights, weekends, and holidays, in a 24-hour continuous-process operation.
  • Ability to work in heat or cold, indoors or outdoors, in dusty and noisy environments, around moving or vibrating equipment, and at elevated places accessed by stairs or ladders.
  • Ability to perform computer-based work and administrative or managerial tasks.
  • Ability to travel 5–15%.
  • Willingness to relocate as promotional opportunities arise throughout a career.
  • Willingness to work weekends, holidays, seven-day weeks, and opposing shifts when needed.
  • 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 a respirator or N-95 dust mask can achieve a proper seal.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee daily mill operations and ensure departmental adherence to company values, policies, and procedures.
  • Identify operational discrepancies and provide focused solutions with a timeline for corrective action.
  • Work with the milling team to continuously improve production processes, improve safety, reduce production costs, and enhance product quality.
  • Ensure mills are properly and efficiently maintained.
  • Engage the milling team in developing technical excellence in equipment design, process knowledge, mill flow, and project development.
  • Collaborate with the Technical Milling group to establish effective technical milling training for appropriate workforce segments, including new millers and interns.
  • Support plant departments and engineering with new projects and advanced problem solving.
  • Work with engineering and the plant team to execute and commission capital projects.
  • Identify and define value-added projects.
  • Carry out systemic changes established by the Director of Milling.
  • Collaborate with the Technical Milling group and subject matter expert network to deliver strategic milling best practices and technology.
  • Use published standard key performance metrics for the milling area to improve operations through benchmarking.
  • Reduce risk, environmental impact, and costs to improve operational efficiency.
  • Maintain compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements, quality specifications, safety standards, and sanitation practices.
  • Promote safety, quality, milling efficiency, and achievement of company goals and objectives.
  • Perform milling operations, mill maintenance, wheat cleaning and tempering, record keeping, sanitation, planning, coordination, and communication.

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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