Area Manager - Dark Meat

Mountaire Farms; Millsboro (DE); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mountaire Farms is seeking a Night Shift supervisor to lead superintendents, supervisors, and hourly associates, focusing on safety, quality, yield, and productivity.

The role emphasizes meeting milestones and financial targets, developing process improvements, maintaining project plans, coordinating schedules, and enforcing a culture of safety across operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred in Agriculture, Operations Management or Business.
• 5-7 years supervisory/management experience across multiple departments.
• Poultry or manufacturing management experience preferred if no poultry background.
• Experience with financial analysis in operations (Agristats) and HACCP knowledge.
• Familiarity with USDA sanitation and pre-operation guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring milestones, financial targets and success metrics are met.
• Developing process improvements to increase service level using resources.
• Developing and maintaining project plans including scope, costs, resources and timing.
• Developing, managing and maintaining ongoing work plan and coordinating schedules.
• Promote and enforce a culture of safety.

Skills

People management

Financial analysis

HACCP knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred (Ag/Operations/Business)

5-7 years supervisory/management experience

Job description

Night Shift:

Manages superintendents, supervisors, and hourly associates in relation to safety, quality, employee relations, yield, and productivity.

Duties/Activities Required by Job:

• Ensuring all milestones, financial targets and success metrics are met.
• Developing process improvements to increase level of service utilizing business and technical resources.
• Developing and maintaining project plans, including scope, costs, resources and timing.
• Developing, managing and maintaining ongoing work plan and coordinating schedules and activities.
• Promote and enforce a culture of safety.

Educations/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree prefered (Ag, Operations Management, Business).
• 5-7 years demonstrated supervisory/management, must include experience managing multiple departments, experience will be considered in lieu of degree, previous poultry experience preferred, previous manufacturing management experience required if no poultry.
• Demonstrated experience with Financial analysis in an operations setting (Agristats), HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) in depth knowledge and experience. USDA regulations on sanitation and pre-operations guidelines.