Shift Supervisor - Richmond, TX

The Shift Supervisor is accountable for the safe, reliable, efficient, quality-focused operation of the Richmond cottonseed processing facility during the assigned shift. Reporting to the Plant Superintendent, this role provides direct leadership to the operating crew, maintains stable plant operations, establishes operational and maintenance priorities, monitors process and product quality, develops operators, maintains housekeeping standards, and ensures effective communication between shifts.

Salaried Exempt

This position works an 8-hour rotating schedule supporting 24/7 operations, including day, evening, and night shifts, weekends, and holidays as scheduled. The Shift Supervisor serves as the primary operations leader during the assigned shift and is expected to maintain a strong field presence, recognize abnormal conditions, coordinate troubleshooting, elevate significant issues, and carry unresolved concerns forward until appropriately addressed.

• Lead the shift with safety as the first priority and ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, environmental requirements, operating standards, permits, and safe-work practices.
• Reinforce Stop Work Authority and lead operational decision-making when safety, environmental, quality, process, or equipment-integrity concerns arise.
• Verify critical process conditions through field observations, operator communication, control-system information, and operating data; identify and respond to abnormal conditions.
• Participate in incident investigations and corrective actions as required.

• Maintain accountability for safe, stable, reliable, efficient, and quality-focused plant operations during the assigned shift.
• Develop and apply a working understanding of the cottonseed processing operation to support troubleshooting and operational decisions across the facility.
• Establish priorities based on safety, quality, reliability, production requirements, and plant needs; coordinate maintenance priorities and determine when immediate intervention is required.
• Identify developing equipment, process, or quality issues and ensure deficiencies are documented, communicated, corrected, and followed through to resolution.
• Monitor applicable quality KPIs and operating conditions; ensure off-specification conditions are quickly contained, investigated, communicated, and corrected.

• Monitor plant performance and recurring losses involving production, quality, reliability, efficiency, yield, or downtime.
• Initiate or support Root Cause Analysis when significant events, recurring failures, or performance losses require structured investigation.
• Support continuous improvement efforts and translate plant-management priorities into clear shift-level expectations, actions, and operating behaviors.
• Verify that corrective actions, new standards, and improvement initiatives are consistently sustained by the operating crews.

• Maintain effective communication with operators, Maintenance, Quality, plant leadership, and supporting functions throughout the shift.
• Ensure effective shift turnover, including clear communication of operating status, equipment condition, quality concerns, maintenance activities, safety issues, production challenges, and open actions.
• Escalate significant concerns and clearly transfer ownership of unresolved issues so they continue receiving attention across shifts.

• Provide direct leadership, direction, coaching, and feedback to approximately 5-6 operators.
• Set expectations for safety, operating discipline,…