Ag Factory Yard Assistant Foreman

Crystal Sugar Company; Crookston (MN); On-site; USD 27,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

American Crystal Sugar Company in Crookston, MN seeks an Ag Factory Yard Assistant Foreman to oversee safe, efficient piling site operations, equipment maintenance and crew supervision.

The role emphasizes enforcing safety and operating policies, directing piler use, sampling, loader operation, and coordinating with maintenance and repair teams to ensure quality long-term storage of the sugarbeet crop.

Qualifications

• Experience operating pile equipment or similar heavy equipment.
• Ability to manage crews and communicate clearly.
• Commitment to safety policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and assistance with operating, repairing and maintaining piler equipment.
• Enforce all safety and work rules.
• Keep records of repairs and communicate that to the repair crew.
• Manage crews to ensure breaks and safe, clean worksite.
• Coordinate with piler, ag repair, and ag staff.

Skills

Piler operation

Equipment maintenance

Safety compliance

Job description

The Ag Factory Yard Assistant Foreman is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the piling site including equipment maintenance, personnel management, communications, and the enforcement of safety and operating policies to achieve proper storage of a quality sugarbeet crop.

• Provide direction and assistance with operating, repairing and maintaining piler equipment.
• Needs to be familiar with all job duties at the site including operating a piler, taking samples, running a loader, operating the scale house computer, etc.
• Enforce all American Crystal Sugar work rules.
• Keep record of needed repairs and communicate that to the repair crew.
• Enforce Heat, Frost, and Safety Policies.
• Ensure that only good beets are going into the long term storage piles.
• Manage the crews so everyone gets their allowed breaks.
• Maintain a safe and clean worksite.
• Communicate with piler crew, ag repair crew and ag staff.
• Responsible to get culverts placed where necessary in deep freeze piles.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Practice safety measures at all times.

Compensation Range: $23.98 - $23.98 /hr

An Equal Opportunity Employer Our Cooperative Grows Opportunity.

American Crystal Sugar Company is more than just a sugarbeet cooperative. Our company is deeply rooted in the communities of the Red River Valley. We are committed to the sustainability and growth of our business and to improving lives in the places where we work and live. We do that by investing in our people, our communities, and the future of our company. At American Crystal Sugar Company, growers who grow and harvest the sugarbeets also own the company and the factories that make our products. We're proud to be an economic engine for our communities, employing approximately 1,600 full-time employees and about 900 hourly seasonal workers and many more contracted third-party workers. Together, we build a better future for the sugar industry and the Red River Valley.

Everything We Do Benefits Our Growers and Our Communities. Our valued team members can access a variety of benefits to enhance their health, wellness, and financial security.