Elevator Manager

Ardent Mills; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ardent Mills is seeking an Elevator Manager to oversee plant elevator activities across shifts, ensuring safety, quality and efficiency. You will drive cost-effective production and develop a high-performing team aligned with company values.

The role demands strong leadership, LEAN experience, and a commitment to continuous improvement while managing inventory and safety programs on a 24/7 operation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or HS diploma with 4 years of production experience.
• Proven leadership responsibilities in an elevator/production environment.
• Experience implementing LEAN practices and tools to improve processes.

Responsibilities

• Drive safety initiatives to ensure injury-free performance with monthly safety training and audits.
• Develop and coach salary and hourly operation team members using Ardent Mills values.
• Maintain compliance with policies, regulations, quality specs and sanitation practices.
• Maintain asset reliability by coordinating with reliability team on preventative care and operator care.
• Monitor elevator grain volumes and communicate inventory accurately with the team.
• Conduct grain inventory investigations and resolve variances between digital and physical counts.
• Lead process improvement initiatives such as Centerlining, Preventative Maintenance, 5S and ELEMEDS.
• Drive improvements via GAP analysis and metric-based monitoring.
• Investigate grain quality issues and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Leadership

LEAN practices

Safety and compliance

Coaching and development

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Operations management

Education

Bachelor's degree or HS diploma with 4 years production experience

Job description

Elevator Manager Your role: As Elevator Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring high performance execution of plant elevator activities across multiple shifts and/or departments to produce products that meet established quality, customer service, safety, innovation and cost metrics consistent with schedules and policies. You will ensure systems, processes, and resources are in place to provide optimal cost savings and efficient production of grain-based food products for our customers.

To succeed, you must be able to: Deliver results in first-time situations by inspiring others and working to earn trust every day Serve others with understanding, respect, and care. Operate with simplicity, clarity and transparency. Deal with and drive change. Organize, prioritize and own multiple tasks while meeting or exceeding deadlines. Learn and apply new technology, and share your knowledge with others. Above all you will be expected to carry out all your activities with reliability, integrity, compliance and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner

Your responsibilities:

• Drive safety initiatives to ensure injury-free performance including monthly safety training, observation audits, daily employee toolbox meetings, and near-miss / first-aid root cause and corrective action
• Develops/supervises and provides coaching to salary and hourly operation team members using the Ardent Mills core values and guiding principles
• Maintain compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements, quality specifications, safety standards and sanitation practices
• Maintain asset reliability by working closely with the reliability team on preventative care as well as through operator care activities
• Monitor elevator grain volumes and communicate inventory appropriately with the team.
• Perform grain inventory and provide corrective actions/investigations to solve for any inventory variance outside of variance range in the digital vs. physical count
• Develop, participate and lead process improvement initiatives including Centerlining, Preventative Maintenance, Pristine, 5S and ELEMEDS (Every Load, Every Mill, Every Day Safely)
• Drive improvement and efficiency through GAP analysis and metric-based monitoring
• Investigate grain quality issues through follow-up and corrective actions

Essential skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or High School diploma/GED equivalent with 4 years of production experience
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience having leadership responsibilities in an elevator
• Demonstrated experience with leading others, including performance management, coaching, and development within a production environment
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to implement LEAN practices and tools to improve processes
• Experience managing projects and driving data based decision making process

Good to have:

• 3+ years of production leadership experience
• Knowledge and experience in continuous improvement methodologies, tools, trends and best practices

Physical requirements and working conditions (with or without reasonable accommodation):

Ability to perform work at a computer and other administrative/managerial tasks Ability to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as is required by the operating areas (i.e. safety glasses, protective footwear, hard hat, hearing protection and, at times, a respirator) Ability to work a rotating schedule including nights, weekends and holidays Ability to work a machine-paced continuous process that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with conditions which include: Hot/Cold temperatures (inclement weather) Indoor/Outdoor environment Dusty environment(to include Wheat/Gluten allergens) Noisy environment Frequent moving/vibration/ or other motion of equipment/processes Elevated Places Ability to perform work safely which may require: Frequently standing, walking, rotating,bending/stooping, twisting, crouching, kneeling, balancing and reachingor lifting at varying heights and levels Frequentlyclimbing stairs and/or ladd