Grain Facility Superintendent
Thank you for your interest in joining our team! At CGB, you can contribute to meaningful work, grow professionally and personally, and belong in a place where everyone has a voice. Founded in 1969, CGB Enterprises, Inc. is known as an innovative and progressive leader in the grain and transportation industries. Today, CGB operates an enterprise with over 100 locations and nearly 2,000 U.S. employees overseeing a diverse family of businesses that provide an array of services for producers and logistics services for an international base of customers.
The combination of our assets provides a growing organization that is celebrating over 50 years of strength and stability!
Ready to take the next step in your operations leadership career? Join our Utica river facility where you'll lead employees, oversee daily grain operations, support truck and barge loading activities, and drive safety, scheduling, and reporting efforts. We value strong leadership and operational experience from grain, agricultural, warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, maintenance, and other industrial environments. This hands‑on role offers the opportunity to make a direct impact while building a long‑term career in grain operations.
This job is primarily responsible for overseeing the day‑to‑day operations at the assigned location ensuring safe, consistent, efficient and profitable operations.
- 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 to assigned staff; 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 task 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 schedules 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, etc.
Here’s what you’ll need to be considered:
- Education Required – Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent training and work experience.
- Preferred – Bachelor's degree in Agriculture or Technical Systems Management.
- Experience Required – 3 years' experience in various sides of the specific business unit.
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities – Working knowledge and understanding of location cost structures, mix and blend analysis, safety,…
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