Plant Shift Lead — 24/7 Operations

ADM; Richmond (TX); On-site; USD 58,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental benefits

401(k) with matching contributions

Paid time off

Job summary

ADM Richmond, TX is seeking a Shift Supervisor to lead the cottonseed processing operation on a rotating 8‑hour schedule. You will guide the operating crew, uphold safety, quality, and efficiency, and set shift priorities with maintenance and production needs in mind.

You’ll maintain a strong field presence, coordinate troubleshooting, and ensure clear shift turnover while coaching 5–6 operators and ensuring compliance with environmental and company standards.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Experience in manufacturing or industrial operations.
• Previous supervisory or demonstrated people-leadership experience required.
• Ability to lead employees, establish expectations, provide coaching, and administer corrective or disciplinary action when necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to make timely decisions, troubleshoot problems, recognize abnormal process or equipment conditions, and manage multiple priorities in a continuous operating environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the shift with safety as the first priority and ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, environmental requirements, operating standards, permits, and safe-work practices.
• Maintain accountability for safe, stable, reliable, efficient, and quality-focused plant operations during the assigned shift.
• Establish priorities based on safety, quality, reliability, production requirements, and plant needs; coordinate maintenance priorities and determine when immediate intervention is required.
• Identify developing equipment, process, or quality issues and ensure deficiencies are documented, communicated, corrected, and followed through to resolution.
• Monitor applicable quality KPIs and operating conditions; ensure off-specification conditions are quickly contained, investigated, communicated, and corrected.
• Monitor plant performance and recurring losses involving production, quality, reliability, efficiency, yield, or downtime.
• Initiate or support Root Cause Analysis when significant events, recurring failures, or performance losses require structured investigation.
• Support continuous improvement efforts and translate plant-management priorities into clear shift-level expectations, actions, and operating behaviors.
• Verify that corrective actions, new standards, and improvement initiatives are consistently sustained by the operating crews.

Skills

Safety leadership

Operations management

People leadership

Root Cause Analysis

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Control systems

Plant operating systems

Job description

ADM Richmond, TX is seeking a Shift Supervisor to lead the cottonseed processing operation on a rotating 8‑hour schedule. You will guide the operating crew, uphold safety, quality, and efficiency, and set shift priorities with maintenance and production needs in mind.

You’ll maintain a strong field presence, coordinate troubleshooting, and ensure clear shift turnover while coaching 5–6 operators and ensuring compliance with environmental and company standards.