Rendering Supervisor

Salary: $75K- $85K + 12% (bonus paid out quarterly) + $2300 annual shift per diem + Benefits

Location:

West Lafayette, IN area
* Relocation assistance provided!
* Job Type: Direct Hire, Full-time,
* Must be US Citizen or Green Card holder*

Great opportunity with a fast growing food processor!

The Rendering Supervisor leads daily rendering and by-products operations at a high-volume meat-processing facility. This role is responsible for safely converting animal by-products into finished products such as protein meals, fats, and related materials while meeting production, quality, food/feed safety, environmental, regulatory, and cost targets.

The supervisor provides front-line leadership for production employees, coordinates with maintenance and other plant departments, and ensures equipment and processes operate safely, efficiently, and in accordance with company procedures.

• Supervise daily rendering operations across assigned shifts, including raw-material receiving, cooking, separation, drying, fat handling, finished-product loading, and sanitation.

• Lead, coach, schedule, and evaluate rendering employees; ensure adequate staffing, training, accountability, and adherence to work standards.

• Maintain a strong safety culture by enforcing PPE, lockout/tagout, confined-space, hot-work, chemical-handling, and machine-guarding requirements.

• Monitor critical process conditions such as production throughput, cooker performance, temperatures, moisture, fat yield, product quality, equipment run time, and utility use.

• Ensure finished rendered products meet established specifications for moisture, protein, fat, particle size, contamination control, and customer requirements.

• Investigate production interruptions, quality deviations, safety incidents, equipment failures, and yield losses; implement timely corrective actions.

• Partner with Maintenance to prioritize repairs, coordinate preventive maintenance, plan shutdown work, and reduce unplanned downtime.

• Coordinate with slaughter, fabrication, transportation, wastewater, quality assurance, sanitation, and warehouse teams to ensure consistent material flow and timely shipment of finished products.

• Maintain accurate records for production, yields, inventory, downtime, sanitation, inspections, training, and regulatory compliance.

• Support compliance with applicable feed safety, environmental, occupational safety, animal by-product, wastewater, odor-control, and hazardous-material requirements.

• Conduct regular floor inspections and shift handoffs; communicate operating priorities, hazards, maintenance needs, and performance expectations.

• Drive continuous-improvement initiatives focused on safety, yield recovery, throughput, energy efficiency, product quality, housekeeping, and labor utilization.

• Manage inventories of chemicals, packaging, spare parts, fuel, additives, and other operating supplies as assigned.

• Respond to operational emergencies, including equipment failures, spills, odors, releases, fires, or other plant incidents, in accordance with site procedures.

• Perform other duties consistent with safe and efficient plant operations.

• High school diploma or GED required; associate’s or bachelor’s degree in operations, industrial technology, agriculture, food science, engineering, or a related field preferred.

• Three or more years of supervisory, lead, or production-management experience in rendering, meat processing, food manufacturing, feed manufacturing, industrial processing, or a comparable high-volume manufacturing environment.

• Working knowledge of industrial processing equipment, including cookers, presses, centrifuges, dryers, pumps, conveyors, boilers, tanks, and associated controls.

• Demonstrated…