Process Shift Supervisor

Western Sugar • Scottsbluff, NE

106d

About The Position

The Western Sugar Cooperative is recruiting for the position of a Process Shift Supervisor. This person reports to the Process Manager and is responsible for leading all shift personnel processing sugar beets and producing sugar. The person directs operating personnel working at all processing stations to produce sugar from sugar beets. The person is required to lead with safety and quality by their actions and supporting the Cooperatives safety and quality standards. This position requires a dynamic person with the ability to understand and implement the best ways of processing sugar beets into sugar through strong employee leadership skills. The person is required to have or learn to have strong mechanical and chemical knowledge, enjoy industrial processing, and be a believer in preventative maintenance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferred, but not required.
• Proven supervisory experience in a processing environment.
• 5 to 10 years of process experience preferred, but open to candidates with no experience but have the preferred educational background.
• Experience in Sugarbeet processing or sugar refining preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with improvements in safety, productivity, and quality.
• Effective communication skills working with all levels of staff, including hourly workforce and senior management.
• Willingness to learn continuous improvement processes like Lean Sigma and Root Cause Analysis.
• Good computer competence (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Solid leadership skills, independent thinking, strong organizational and planning abilities and excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

• Friendly, results oriented, elevated level of energy and collaborative.
• Provide solid people leadership that lives the Core Values of: Safety, Integrity, Openness & Trust, Teamwork, Entrepreneurship, and Social Responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Be a safety leader with solid safety behaviors and demonstrated leadership.
• Lead the effort with others to maintain a clean and safe production environment.
• Plan, organize and direct the shift personnel in sugar beet processing to optimize performance.
• Focus on producing a quality product by adhering to the company’s quality systems, process, and procedures.
• Monitor, measure, and report on production related process performance and general issues.
• Effectively communicate with all employees.
• Train employees for specific factory stations for overall control and productivity.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities.
• Use root cause analysis to permanently solve problems.
• Use key performance indicators and a continuous improvement approach to improve performance.
• Work with purchasing to ensure processing supplies are available to operate equipment properly.
• Work closely with the Process Engineers and the Process Manager, Maintenance Manager and Plant Manager to ensure proper preventative maintenance is occurring.
• Work closely with other Shift Supervisors to ensure a fluid transition between shifts, including establishing shift schedules.
• Understand the labor agreement, and hold people accountable to the rules.
• Collaborate with employees on the factory floor up to 80% of the time.

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility
• Drug Free workplace

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees