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Plant Operations Supervisor

Cargill

Butler, WIJobSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
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Location
Butler, WI
Work Authorization
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Job overview

Cargill’s Plant Operations Supervisor provides operational oversight for production facilities, ensuring standards for safety, quality, operational effectiveness, and financial performance. The role oversees routine production operations, monitors outcomes, administers a department or shift budget, and develops direct reports. It is based in Butler, Wisconsin, and requires a bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience and at least one year of directly related work experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Production Operations, nice to haveSafety Compliance, nice to haveQuality Monitoring, nice to haveBudget Administration, nice to haveOperational Planning, nice to haveCoaching, nice to haveLean Six Sigma, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Related Field or Equivalent Experience, required1 Year Directly Related Work Experience, required1 Year Supervisory Experience, nice to have

Benefits

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.

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QUALIFICATIONS

MINIMUM

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

  • Minimum one year of directly related work experience

PREFERRED

  • One year of supervisory experience

  • Lean six sigma

APPLICANT INFORMATION

  • This position is posted both internally and externally

  • Position is based in Butler, Wisconsin

  • Relocation assistance is NOT provided for this role

  • The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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How this job compares

Set against the 1,903 open Production Supervisor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Wisconsin median$72–86K/yr36 salary ranges
  • US median$26–30/hr182 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 146 open Production Supervisor jobs in Wisconsin and 1,903 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Wisconsin
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 1,303 postings).
Education
131 of the 1,903 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 10, 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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