Process Shift Supervisor

Process Shift Supervisor

Experience: Senior Level
Salary: $90,000 - $105,000 per year

• Lead shift personnel responsible for processing sugar beets and producing finished sugar.
• Promote safe working practices and support the facility’s goal of maintaining a zero-injury workplace.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe production environment.
• Plan, organize, schedule, and direct shift activities to optimize production performance.
• Ensure adherence to established quality systems, processes, and operating procedures.
• Monitor, measure, and report production performance, KPIs, and operational issues.
• Troubleshoot processing problems and use root cause analysis to implement lasting corrective actions.
• Train employees on factory stations, operating procedures, safety expectations, and productivity standards.
• Participate actively in continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate with purchasing to ensure required processing and operating supplies are available.
• Partner with process engineering, production, maintenance, and factory leadership to support preventive maintenance.
• Coordinate maintenance activities during scheduled non-processing downtime to improve equipment reliability and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with other shift supervisors to maintain seamless shift transitions and establish shift schedules.
• Apply the labor agreement as needed and hold employees accountable to established rules and expectations.
• Spend up to 80% of working time on the factory floor supporting, coaching, and collaborating with employees.

• Proven supervisory experience within an industrial processing or manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead hourly production employees in a hands-on factory setting.
• Experience improving safety, productivity, process performance, or product quality.
• Working knowledge of production processes, KPIs, operational troubleshooting, and safe work practices.
• Ability and willingness to develop mechanical, chemical-process, and preventive-maintenance knowledge.
• Willingness to learn and apply continuous-improvement methods, including root cause analysis and Lean Six Sigma principles.
• Computer proficiency with Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Ability to work effectively with hourly employees, technical teams, other supervisors, and senior management.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Five to ten years of process or industrial manufacturing experience.
• Three to five years of maintenance experience.
• Sugar-beet processing or sugar-refining experience.

Founded more than 125 years ago and based in Scottsbluff for this opportunity, with headquarters in Denver and processing facilities across Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, we are a grower-owned agricultural cooperative with a longstanding history of transforming locally grown sugar beets into high-quality sugar. Our Scottsbluff operation is part of an established regional manufacturing network built around safety, quality, operational excellence, and the communities we serve

• Frontline Leadership:
  Direct and develop shift personnel across all sugar-processing stations.
• High-Impact Role:
  Improve safety, quality, productivity, equipment reliability, and overall process performance.
• Hands‑On Environment:
  Spend up to 80% of your time on the factory floor supporting employees and troubleshooting operations.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Use KPIs, root cause analysis, and process‑improvement methods to drive measurable results.
• Cross-Functional Exposure:
  Work closely with production, process engineering, maintenance, purchasing, and plant leadership.
• Growth Opportunity:
  Candidates with transferable processing leadership experience can learn sugar-beet processing and expand your maintenance knowledge.