Department Superintendent - Decatur, IL

ADM; Decatur (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ADM West Extraction is seeking a Department Superintendent to lead the corn prep and extraction team. This role will oversee hourly employees in a union environment and guide salary supervision, focusing on safety, quality, production, and cost management. Strong leadership and communication skills are required to drive department goals.

The position emphasizes long-term planning, staff development, and collaboration with other management to ensure operational excellence across the plant.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree required with supervisory leadership experience.
• Demonstrated leadership in safety.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day activities in the corn prep and extraction department.
• Provide guidance to salaried supervision and hourly staff within a union environment.
• Plan long-term department goals and manage safety, quality, production, and costs.
• Train and motivate staff; enforce company plans and rules.
• Coordinate maintenance planning and capital activities to support operations.
• Communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Safety

Training

Planning

Problem solving

Team motivation

MS Office

Education

Four-year degree

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Summary

This position will be responsible for many of the day-to-day activities as well as long-term planning for the corn prep and extraction department. The Corn Extraction Department Superintendent will have direct oversight of hourly employees within a union environment and provide guidance to other salary supervision in the department. Management of a department requires skills in the areas of leadership, communication, effective listening and self-motivation as well as all aspects of safety, quality, production, plant goals, cost management and employee development.

ADM West Extraction

Job Summary

This position will be responsible for many of the day-to-day activities as well as long-term planning for the corn prep and extraction department. The Corn Extraction Department Superintendent will have direct oversight of hourly employees within a union environment and provide guidance to other salary supervision in the department. Management of a department requires skills in the areas of leadership, communication, effective listening and self-motivation as well as all aspects of safety, quality, production, plant goals, cost management and employee development.

Essential Job Functions

• Safety of our employees is the top priority of ADM. Ensuring personnel and plant environments are conducive to safe operations is critical.
• Ensure operations and products manufactured comply with all applicable quality regulatory requirements and laws of all countries to which we are subject.
• Implementation and management of all aspects of the plant Performance Excellence process.
• Must rely on their experience, good judgment and planning to ensure effective planning to accomplish goals, implement operational procedures and training as well as to enforce company plans, policies and rules.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to train and motivate the people they supervise. Including salaried supervision and engineers as well as hourly operations.
• Ensure planning of maintenance and capital activities and able to adjust operations to support these activities.
• Able to work effectively with other members of management within the facility.
• Demonstrate understanding of corn prep and extraction processes.
• Ensure effective communication within all levels of the organization, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated ability to manage employees in a fair, direct and honest manner is required.
• Fill in and work with other departments as needed, for the common good of the complex.
• General experience with computers and specifically MS Office is required.
• Demonstrated ability to plan strategically for both short- and long-term to achieve department goals is required.

Education/Training:

• Four-year degree and a minimum of four years of supervisory experience with increasing manufacturing leadership responsibility, or a minimum of 5 years of hands-on, increasing production leadership experience.
• Demonstrated leadership in safety.
• Demonstrated coaching and leadership skill.

Working Conditions:

• Dust
• Chemicals / Irritants
  • The scope of the position may require exposure to and use of chemicals, solvents, and cleaners that may be hazardous and/or cause injury if specific instructions regarding their mixture, use, and disposal/storage are not properly followed.
• Inside areas:
  • Spring / Summer: Temperatures in some areas of the facility will be up to or exceed 100 degrees
  • Fall / Winter: Temperatures in the facility may be at or below freezing.
• Outside areas:
  • Spring / Summer: Outside temperature may be up to or exceed 100 degrees with potential for high humidity. May be exposed to inclement weather conditions including, but not limited to, rain and wind.
  • Fall / Winter: Outside temperatures may reach freezing or below. May be exposed to inclement weather including, freezing rain, sleet, snow and wind.
• Some manufacturing processes within the facility are highly reliant on machinery and other processing equipment and, as a result, noise levels may reach or exceed 85 decibels and require use of hearing protection for most of the work shift.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.