Director - Stock Yards Collective Loveland
Loveland, COFull-time$90–145K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Director oversees operations and site management for the Stock Yards production and distribution facility. The role leads production, shipping, receiving, transportation, purchasing, and sales coordination; sets operational objectives; and owns P&L accountability for revenue growth, cost management, and profitability. It also guides safety and regulatory compliance, coaches managers, and oversees workforce performance and discipline.
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ARE YOU A CURRENT US FOODS EMPLOYEE? PLEASE APPLY DIRECTLY THROUGH OUR INTERNAL WORKDAY CAREER SITE
Join Our Community of Food People!
Directs and oversees the overall operations and site management of the production/distribution facility or cut shop. Implements, guides, coaches and ensures that procedures are followed to provide a safe, efficient, service-oriented, and profitable department.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Site leadership: Oversee production driving standardization, productivity improvement, and equipment utilization.
Planning and Directing: Establish long-term operations objectives that are aligned with business goals. Develop and execute strategic plan for the production and operations department. Integrate the separate activities of production, shipping, receiving, transportation, purchasing and sales by discussing with each function accountabilities and interdependence in achieving company goals. Participate in the establishment of overall Production-Distribution Center business goals.
Profitable Operations: Plan, organize, direct, and control the course of operations by integrating and coordinating operations functions and processes with business goals. Maintain profitable operations by controlling inventory, losses, accidents and safety, etc. Seek synergies and best practices to develop and implement new methods to improve productivity or improve customer service. Full P&L ownership with accountability for revenue growth, cost management, and profitability targets.
Safety and Compliance: Guide operations management in compliance with government and other regulatory agency guidelines and laws and Company programs. Implement programs to ensure overall safety, security, maintenance and ergonomics for the operations functions.
Personnel and Company Policy: Delegate the responsibility to managers to accomplish productivity goals, all this being done with guidance and coaching. Enforce Production-Distribution Center/company policies on safety and employee discipline by following guidelines, communicate changes to the workforce and oversee work and performance of day warehouse associates. Create performance improvement plans, administer discipline, and identify training opportunities when appropriate.
SUPERVISION Supervises all Production/Operations leadership for Stock Yards
RELATIONSHIPS Internal: All Stock Yards functional leaders and US Foods functional leaders.
External: US Foods customers and market/industry organizations,
QUALIFICATIONS
Education/Training: 4-year degree preferred (or High School Diploma (or GED) and equivalent experience)
Related Experience: 10 years operations experience, various job functions in food production, warehouse/distribution management, minimum of 5 years of management experience as well as experience in continuous improvement/lead six sigma disciplines.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Food manufacturing experience to include food safety requirements, warehouse management, customer service, budgeting and cost control, knowledge of OSHA, HAACP and other regulations, PC skills
This role will also receive annual incentive plan bonus. Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html. Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law (for example: state or local minimum wage thresholds). The expected base rate for this role is between $90,000 - $145,000 EOE – Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Age/Genetic Information/Protected Veteran/Disability Status
How this job compares
Set against the 499 open Operations Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$90–145K/yr
- US median$144–180K/yr326 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $118K, is 26% below the US median midpoint ($159K) — in the middle half of Operations Director salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 16 open Operations Director jobs in Colorado and 499 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Operations Director postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (338 postings).
- Education
- 145 of the 499 open Operations Director jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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