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Plant Operations Supervisor

Cargill

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Location
Lititz, PA
Work Authorization
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Job overview

Cargill’s Plant Operations Supervisor provides operational oversight for production facilities and holds them accountable to safety, quality, operational effectiveness, and financial performance standards. The role oversees routine production operations, budgets, planning, and personnel decisions, while coaching direct reports and coordinating with production supervisors. It is an onsite third-shift position in Lititz, Pennsylvania, scheduled from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Lean Six SigmaSupervisionContinuous ImprovementSAPMicrosoft OfficeExcelPowerPoint

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience1 Year Work Experience1 Year Supervisory ExperienceFood Manufacturing Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Relocation Assistance

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

  • Execute routine operations of assigned area, ensuring direct reports are following policies and procedures related to employee, food and feed safety and environmental compliance.

  • Monitor production outcomes, quantity, and quality to ensure customer and food safety requirements are within specifications.

  • Partner with production supervisors to meet customer specifications and timeline.

  • Administer production budget for a department, process, or shift and executes purchase orders and ensures timely payment of invoices

  • Develop operational plans and monitors routine operations for all production processes for multiple departments, processes and shifts.

  • Develop, supervise and provide coaching to direct reports including coaching company core values and guiding principles for assigned facilities or region.

  • 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.

  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

  • Lean six sigma

  • Minimum one year of directly related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • One year of supervisory experience in a food manufacturing environment or process related areas.

  • Continuous improvement or Lean Six Sigma experience

  • SAP Experience

  • Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Position Information

Location : Lititz, PA

Schedule: 3rd Shift | 6:00pm-6:00am | Onsite

Posting type: Internal & external

Relocation assistance may be 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 1,925 open Production Supervisor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Pennsylvania median$71–95K/yr40 salary ranges
  • US median$26–30/hr163 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 89 open Production Supervisor jobs in Pennsylvania and 1,925 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Production Supervisor postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 1,299 postings).
Education
159 of the 1,925 open Production Supervisor jobs (8%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 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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