Grain Facility Superintendent

cgb; North Utica (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CGB Enterprises, Inc. is seeking an operations leader for its Utica river facility. You will oversee day-to-day grain operations, lead staff, and drive safety, scheduling, and reporting efforts to ensure profitable results.

You will work with management to develop budgets, forecasts, and improvement plans, while maintaining compliance with OSHA/EPA regulations and promoting community partnerships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent training/experience.
• 3 years’ experience in the business unit areas.
• Strong knowledge of location operations, safety, and regulatory requirements (OSHA/EPA).

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operations at the assigned location.
• Direct staff, staffing/scheduling, and performance management.
• Develop, communicate, and manage budgets and forecasts with management.
• Lead safety programs, conduct monthly safety meetings, and track safety goals.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA and environmental regulations.
• Coordinate with departments to meet loading/transfer needs and customer service.
• Promote and maintain a positive image within local communities.

Skills

Leadership

Operations

Safety

Budgeting

Staffing

Logistics

Inventory

Maintenance

Quality

Customer Service

Training

Audits

Compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Bachelor's in Agriculture/Technical Systems Management

Job description

Thank you for your interest in joining our team! At CGB, you can contribute to meaningful work, grow professionally and personally, and belong in a place where everyone has a voice.

Founded in 1969, CGB Enterprises, Inc. is known as an innovative and progressive leader in the grain and transportation industries. Today, CGB operates an enterprise with over 100 locations and nearly 2,000 U.S. employees overseeing a diverse family of businesses that provide an array of services for producers and logistics services for an international base of customers. The combination of our assets provides a growing organisation that is celebrating over 50 years of strength and stability!

Ready to take the next step in your operations leadership career? Join our Utica river facility where you'll lead employees, oversee daily grain operations, support truck and barge loading activities, and drive safety, scheduling and reporting efforts. We value strong leadership and operational experience from grain, agricultural, warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, maintenance and other industrial environments. This hands‑on role offers the opportunity to make a direct impact while building a long‑term career in grain operations.

This job is primarily responsible for overseeing the day‑to‑day operations at the assigned location ensuring safe, consistent, efficient and profitable operations. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, management of assigned location staff, staffing, logistics, inventory, maintenance, efficiency, quality and customer service. Additionally, the job incumbent will promote and maintain a positive image within their local communities.

In this job, you will:

• Actual responsibilities performed may vary dependent on daily needs and type of facility.
• Supervise employees in all activities for all applicable operations at assigned location (e.g. grain and terminal, soybean plant, etc.).
• Ultimately responsible for assigned location results; work with location management to ensure operations are optimally profitable; develop location benchmarks, report on location results and develop improvement plans for areas falling below benchmark.
• Actively lead, direct, and communicate company's safety programme to assigned staff; schedule and moderate monthly safety meeting, set safety goals and work with safety team to ensure they are achieved, monitor and perform safety behaviours and audits.
• Ensure employees perform all duties within compliance of OSHA, company safety and environmental regulations; including wearing appropriate PPE for task being performed; and assist management to ensure environmental controls and procedures are appropriately managed (where applicable).
• Work with management team to develop and revise budget forecasts with input from other responsible departments within the organisation, where applicable.
• Oversee staffing and job development activities (e.g. hiring, staffing/scheduling, training, coaching, employee performance management, promotions, corrective actions, terminations, etc.); develop, communicate and manage staff performance expectations that align with company goals. Assist with and/or plan staffing schedules and direct work duties to assigned staff (including vacation time and shift trades).
• Determine need for and schedules Barge/Rail/Grain Inspector as appropriate; where applicable.
• Conduct quality internal audits as required; review, understand, notify management and make modifications to PSM & MOC as necessary (where applicable).
• Communicate with applicable departmental staff to ensure collaboration on various services (e.g. Marine Services for barge movements, Merchandisers and CTLC to meet Loading/Transfer needs), where applicable.
• Ensure staff and facilities are compliant with all applicable state and federal regulations; take appropriate actions to correct/report incidents/findings where applicable.
• Actively participate in trainee programme; coach trainees through their curriculum and plans/checklists.
• Other duties as assigned; including walk through, audits, inventory monitoring, maintenance needs, housekeeping as needed, etc.

Here’s what you’ll need to be considered:

Education

• Required - Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent training and work experience.
• Preferred - Bachelor's degree in Agriculture or Technical Systems Management.

Experience

• Required - 3 years' experience in various sides of the specific business unit.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Working knowledge and understanding of location cost structures, mix and blend analysis, safety, efficiency, product quality, preventive maintenance, OSHA, EPA, carry, interest, freight, FOB and CIF marketing/sales as well as solid understanding of location operations including storage, rail and barge handling.

Basic computer skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.

Effective leadership skills.

Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all