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Job overview
Cargill’s Assistant Plant Manager provides operational oversight for production facilities, ensuring accountability for safety, quality, operational effectiveness, and financial performance. The role oversees routine production operations, budgets, operational planning, and direct reports across multiple departments, processes, and shifts. It also involves personnel decisions and coaching, with a schedule of Monday through Friday during the day and occasional work outside normal business hours.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Assistant Plant Manager will provide strategic operational oversight for all production operating facilities with moderate presence in multiple regions or moderate degree of complexity. In this role, you will oversee and hold operating facilities accountable to standards for safety, quality, operational effectiveness and financial performance.
Key Accountabilities
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Execute routine operations of assigned area, ensuring direct reports are following policies and procedures related to employee, food and feed safety and environmental compliance.
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Monitor production outcomes, quantity, and quality to ensure customer and food safety requirements are within specifications.
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Partner with production supervisors to meet customer specifications and timeline.
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Administer production budget for a department, process, or shift and executes purchase orders and ensures timely payment of invoices
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Develop operational plans and monitors routine operations for all production processes for multiple departments, processes and shifts.
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Develop, supervise and provide coaching to direct reports including coaching company core values and guiding principles for assigned facilities or region.
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Responsible for personnel decisions related to hiring, performance and disciplinary actions for your direct reports. You will also spend time completing the same tasks as employees on your team.
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
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Excellent leadership and communication skills and the ability to communicate with all levels in the plant
Preferred Qualifications
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One year of supervisory experience
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Minimum of two years of experience in production and warehouse management
Position Details
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Location: Flora, IL; Relocation assistance is not provided for this role
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Schedule is Monday - Friday; Days. There are also some events that will require work after normal business hours, including weekends
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The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
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The expected salary for this position is $80,000-$110,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance.
At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellnessto learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
At Cargill, we care about your safety and want your job search experience to be a positive one. Unfortunately, there are scams out there where individuals pretend to be Cargill recruiters to try to collect personal information or request payment. Please know that Cargill will never ask you for money during the hiring process, and in most cases, we only accept applications through our official careers site , with the exception of some roles in our production plants. If something doesn't feel right or you have questions, don't hesitate to contact us . To learn more, visit our Notice on Fraudulent Job Offers .
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How this job compares
Set against the 3,817 open Operations Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$80–110K/yr
- Illinois median$85–126K/yr111 salary ranges
- US median$101–147K/yr2,253 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $95K, is 11% below the Illinois median midpoint ($106K) — in the middle half of Operations Management salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 150 open Operations Management jobs in Illinois and 3,817 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Thorntons LLC25 open
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- Experience
- Operations Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (2,879 postings).
- Education
- 814 of the 3,817 open Operations Management jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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