Plant Coordinator

SUMMARY OF COMPANY

Bio Urja Renewables, LLC is a leading manufacturer of industrial-grade, beverage-grade, and fuel-grade ethanol and co-products, located in Peoria, IL. The company operates a 135 million gallon per year production plant, which is among the largest industrial alcohol facilities in the U.S., with a long history of successful operations.

We are part of the Bio Urja Group, a family-owned energy and agricultural trading, supply and distribution group headquartered in Houston, Texas and having operations across the USA, as well as in the UK, UAE, India, Singapore, and Mexico. We are proud to have been listed as one of the top four largest privately held companies in the Houston metropolitan area.

The Plant Coordinator directs the shift activities and supervises the day-to-day operational activities of operators in a production department during their assigned shift. The Shift Supervisor works with other supervisors and members of management to coordinate the use of Company resources in keeping with established policies, procedures, and plant priorities. This position is responsible for safely meeting production goals while maintaining compliance with environmental and quality parameters.

• Manage plant operations to maintain personnel and process safety on assigned shift.
• Manage workflow and scheduling of plant personnel on assigned shift, documenting personnel call offs and make necessary calls to fill positions.
• Respond to plant, personnel, product quality, production, and environmental emergencies during assigned shift.
• Serve as the incident commander in the event of a plant emergency.
• Responsible for documenting all events, near‑misses, and other incidents to appropriate departments, leadership, and team members, to include pictures, witness statements, emergency contacts and services as necessary.
• Responsible for reporting and initiating incident investigation as necessary, assign follow‑up to appropriate department.
• Collaborate with department managers in ongoing development of employees in an industrial environment.
• Coordinate all maintenance resources in the absence of day shift maintenance management.
• Manage plant operations to ensure final product quality is within specifications.
• Monitor and manage process conditions to achieve plant goals objectives; assign work to personnel accordingly.
• Work proactively with department superintendents to meet project and production completion deadlines.
• Collaborate with department superintendents and HR to assess and discuss the need for appropriate disciplinary action as needed.
• Interpret and ensure consistent application of organizational policies.
• Communicate with department management in a timely manner to troubleshoot situations that may arise.
• Support and comply with all food safety, quality, and legal requirements.
• This position may be assigned extra workdays during plant outages, extra weekend shifts to bring plant online after scheduled outages, and/or may be required to come in on scheduled off days for lockouts and equipment shutdown. This position may also be required to cover night shift for other shift coordinators during
• Other similar duties as assigned.

• Regular, prompt attendance and ability to work shift work, weekends, and holidays (rotating).
• Demonstrated commitment to safety.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to plan priorities effectively.
• Strong communication (spoken and written) skills for coordination, training, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate team members, with effective conflict management and resolution skills.
• Demonstrated problem solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Strong Operational familiarity with a corn processing plant.
• Excellent prioritizing and organizational skills.
• Ability to multitask.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Basic math and algebra skills.
• Self‑starter who can operate without direct supervision.
• Able to understand and comply with plant GMP and personnel practice requirements.

The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable workplace accommodation.

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