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Job overview
The Surface Production General Supervisor provides operational oversight for production facilities and ensures accountability for safety, quality, operational effectiveness, and financial performance. The role oversees multiple departments, processes, or shifts; develops operational plans; monitors performance; and leads a team. It partners with safety, quality, regulatory, engineering, and plant management experts to implement policies and support capital investment strategies.
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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 Surface Production General Supervisor will provide strategic operational oversight for all production and operating facilities with moderate presence in multiple regions or moderate degree of complexity. In this role, you will oversee and hold facilities accountable to standards for safety, quality, operational effectiveness and financial performance.
Key Accountabilities
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Oversee all operations from multiple departments, processes or shifts to ensure teams are following policies and procedures related to employee, MSHA and Site policies and environmental compliance.
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Partners with environment, health and safety and MSHA and Site policies, quality and regulatory experts to identify the most effective approach for implementing and monitoring corporate safety policies and procedures.
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Oversee production outcomes, quantity and quality to ensure customer and MSHA and Site policies requirements are within specifications.
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Partner collaboratively with appropriate centers of excellence including, but not limited to engineering and plant management, to provide input into the development of plant capital investment strategies.
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Accountable for the implementation of non base capital investments for a major production area or for multiple departments, processes and shifts.
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Ensure ongoing review of key performance indicators with focus on continuous improvements in site operational targets.
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Develops and oversees operational plans and monitors routine operations for all production processes for multiple departments, processes and shifts.
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Lead and develop a team, coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
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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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Experience with budgeting and operational planning
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Lean six sigma
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Minimum of four years of related work experience
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Must be able to obtain within 6 months or already posses the ONDR State Salt Mine Forman's License
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Two years of supervisory experience
Position Details
Location: Cleveland, OH
Schedule: Monday to Friday | 6:00am-3:00pm | Onsite
Posting type: Internal & External
Relocation assistance is not provided for this role
The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
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
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,828 open Production Supervisor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Ohio median$70–87K/yr44 salary ranges
- US median$26–30/hr185 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 167 open Production Supervisor jobs in Ohio and 1,828 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Production Supervisor postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,276 postings).
- Education
- 128 of the 1,828 open Production Supervisor jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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