
Supervisor - First Shift
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Job overview
The Plant Operations Supervisor oversees production operations and holds facilities accountable for safety, quality, operational effectiveness, and financial performance. The role covers routine operations across assigned areas and multiple departments, processes, or shifts, including production planning, budget administration, and supervision of direct reports. The supervisor also makes personnel decisions and performs tasks alongside team members.
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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 Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Plant Operations Supervisor 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 andguiding 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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Other duties as assigned
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 inthe plant
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Able and willing to work one week of on-call coverage per month, including nights and weekends.
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
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Position Information
Position location: FAYETTEVILLE, NC
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,944 open Production Supervisor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- North Carolina median$76–109K/yr25 salary ranges
- US median$26–30/hr181 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 93 open Production Supervisor jobs in North Carolina and 1,944 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- Butterball6 open
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- Experience
- Production Supervisor postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 4 years (1,327 postings).
- Education
- 151 of the 1,944 open Production Supervisor jobs (8%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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