Grain Facility Superintendent

Grain Facility Superintendent – Freeport

Lead day‑to‑day operations, champion safety, and drive efficient, high‑quality grain handling at a key facility.

• Supervise employees in all activities for all applicable operations at assigned location (e.g., grain and terminal, soybean plant, etc.).
• Ultimately responsible for assigned location results; work with location management to ensure operations are optimally profitable; develop location benchmarks, report on location results and develop improvement plans for areas falling below benchmark.
• Actively lead, direct, and communicate company's safety program; schedule and moderate monthly safety meeting, set safety goals and work with safety team to ensure they are achieved, monitor and perform safety behaviors and audits.
• Ensure employees perform all duties within compliance of OSHA, company safety, and environmental regulations; including wearing appropriate PPE for tasks being performed; and assist management to ensure environmental controls and procedures are appropriately managed (where applicable).
• Work with management team to develop and revise budget forecasts with input from other responsible departments within the organization, where applicable.
• Oversee staffing and job development activities (e.g., hiring, staffing/scheduling, training, coaching, employee performance management, promotions, corrective actions, terminations, etc.); develop, communicate, and manage staff performance expectations that align with company goals. Assist with and/or plan staffing schedules and direct work duties to assigned staff (including vacation time and shift trades).
• Determine need for and schedule Barge/Rail/Grain Inspector as appropriate; where applicable.
• Conduct quality internal audits as required; review, understand, notify management and make modifications to PSM & MOC as necessary (where applicable).
• Communicate with applicable departmental staff to ensure collaboration on various services (e.g., Marine Services for barge movements, Merchandisers and CTLC to meet Loading/Transfer needs), where applicable.
• Ensure staff and facilities are compliant with all applicable state and federal regulations; take appropriate actions to correct/report incidents/findings where applicable.
• Actively participate in trainee program; coach trainees through their curriculum and plans/checklists.
• Other duties as assigned; including walk through, audits, inventory monitoring, maintenance needs, housekeeping as needed.

Required - Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent training and work experience.

Preferred - Bachelor's degree in Agriculture or Technical Systems Management.

Required - 3 years’ experience in various sides of the specific business unit.

• Working knowledge and understanding of location cost structures, mix and blend analysis, safety, efficiency, product quality, preventive maintenance, OSHA, EPA, carry, interest, freight, FOB and CIF marketing/sales as well as solid understanding of location operations including storage, rail and barge handling.
• Basic computer skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Effective leadership skills.
• Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of people within and outside the organization.
• Strong decision‑making and conflict management skills.
• Strong trouble shooting and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong time management, organizational, and prioritization skills, with ability to remain flexible to changing priorities.
• Ability to perform job duties of any job supervised at assigned location.
• Good mechanical skills.
• Ability to understand, interpret, and follow all operating and emergency procedures.
• Ability to effectively coach, mentor, and lead staff to accomplish assignments.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

• Ability to balance constantly/continuously.
• Ability to bend, stoop, twist, crouch, crawl, kneel and squat (constantly/continuously) frequently.
• Ability to (frequently) climb stairs and climb ladders (and work…