Rendering Supervisor

The Judge Group, INC.; West Lafayette (IN); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly bonus

Relocation assistance

Per diem allowance

Job summary

The Judge Group, INC. is seeking a Rendering Supervisor in the West Lafayette, IN area to lead daily rendering and by-products operations at a high-volume meat-processing facility.

You will drive safety, staffing, and process optimization while meeting production and quality targets. Responsibilities include supervising shifts, coordinating with maintenance and other departments, and ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; associate’s or bachelor’s degree in related field preferred.
• Three+ years of supervisory or production-management experience in rendering or meat processing.
• Knowledge of industrial processing equipment including cookers, pumps, conveyors, boilers, and dryers.
• Able to lead teams in a safety-sensitive, fast-paced environment.
• Able to interpret production reports, procedures, safety requirements, and maintenance information.
• Willingness to work flexible hours including nights, weekends, holidays, and extended shifts.
• Proficient with basic computer applications and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Supervise daily rendering operations across assigned shifts, including raw-material receiving and product loading.
• Lead, coach, schedule, and evaluate rendering employees, ensuring staffing and training.
• Maintain safety culture by enforcing PPE, lockout/tagout, and other safety requirements.
• Monitor throughput, cooker performance, temperatures, fat yield, and product quality.
• Ensure rendered products meet moisture, protein, fat, and contamination specs.
• Investigate interruptions and deviations; implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate with maintenance to prioritize repairs and reduce downtime.
• Ensure smooth material flow with other plant teams and timely shipments.
• Maintain production, yields, inventory, downtime, and regulatory records.
• Support compliance with feed safety, environmental, and safety requirements.

Skills

Safety leadership

Team supervision

Production management

Quality monitoring

Leadership communication

Flexible hours

MS Office

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate's or Bachelor's preferred

Tools

Cookers

Pumps

Conveyors

Boilers

Dryers

Job description

Salary: $75K- $85K + 12% (bonus paid out quarterly) + $2300 annual shift per diem + Benefits Location: West Lafayette, IN area *Relocation assistance provided!* Job Type: Direct Hire, Full-time, *Must be US Citizen or Green Card holder*

Great opportunity with a fast growing food processor!

Position Summary

The Rendering Supervisor leads daily rendering and by-products operations at a high-volume meat-processing facility. This role is responsible for safely converting animal by-products into finished products such as protein meals, fats, and related materials while meeting production, quality, food/feed safety, environmental, regulatory, and cost targets.

The supervisor provides front-line leadership for production employees, coordinates with maintenance and other plant departments, and ensures equipment and processes operate safely, efficiently, and in accordance with company procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise daily rendering operations across assigned shifts, including raw-material receiving, cooking, separation, drying, fat handling, finished-product loading, and sanitation.

• Lead, coach, schedule, and evaluate rendering employees; ensure adequate staffing, training, accountability, and adherence to work standards.

• Maintain a strong safety culture by enforcing PPE, lockout/tagout, confined-space, hot-work, chemical-handling, and machine-guarding requirements.

• Monitor critical process conditions such as production throughput, cooker performance, temperatures, moisture, fat yield, product quality, equipment run time, and utility use.

• Ensure finished rendered products meet established specifications for moisture, protein, fat, particle size, contamination control, and customer requirements.

• Investigate production interruptions, quality deviations, safety incidents, equipment failures, and yield losses; implement timely corrective actions.

• Partner with Maintenance to prioritize repairs, coordinate preventive maintenance, plan shutdown work, and reduce unplanned downtime.

• Coordinate with slaughter, fabrication, transportation, wastewater, quality assurance, sanitation, and warehouse teams to ensure consistent material flow and timely shipment of finished products.

• Maintain accurate records for production, yields, inventory, downtime, sanitation, inspections, training, and regulatory compliance.

• Support compliance with applicable feed safety, environmental, occupational safety, animal by-product, wastewater, odor-control, and hazardous-material requirements.

• Conduct regular floor inspections and shift handoffs; communicate operating priorities, hazards, maintenance needs, and performance expectations.

• Drive continuous-improvement initiatives focused on safety, yield recovery, throughput, energy efficiency, product quality, housekeeping, and labor utilization.

• Manage inventories of chemicals, packaging, spare parts, fuel, additives, and other operating supplies as assigned.

• Respond to operational emergencies, including equipment failures, spills, odors, releases, fires, or other plant incidents, in accordance with site procedures.

• Perform other duties consistent with safe and efficient plant operations.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; associate’s or bachelor’s degree in operations, industrial technology, agriculture, food science, engineering, or a related field preferred.

• Three or more years of supervisory, lead, or production-management experience in rendering, meat processing, food manufacturing, feed manufacturing, industrial processing, or a comparable high-volume manufacturing environment.

• Working knowledge of industrial processing equipment, including cookers, presses, centrifuges, dryers, pumps, conveyors, boilers, tanks, and associated controls.

• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in a safety-sensitive, fast-paced, physically demanding production environment.

• Ability to interpret production reports, quality data, operating procedures, safety requirements, and maintenance information.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, documentation, and shift-planning skills.

• Ability to work flexible hours, including nights, weekends, holidays, and extended shifts when business conditions require.

• Proficiency with basic computer applications, production-reporting systems, and Microsoft Office or equivalent tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience in animal by-product rendering or a related protein, fats, oils, or feed-ingredient operation.

• Experience with HACCP, GMPs, sanitation programs, feed safety plans, environmental compliance, wastewater operations, or odor-control systems.

• Lean, Six Sigma, continuous-improvement, or root-cause-analysis experience.

• Knowledge of ammonia refrigeration, boiler systems, wastewater treatment, or process-control systems is an advantage.

• Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills.

Physical and Work Environment Requirements

• Ability to walk and stand for extended periods and work on wet, uneven, elevated, or slippery surfaces.

• Ability to lift, push, pull, and carry up to pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Ability to work around heat, steam, odors, noise, chemicals, moving equipment, and raw animal by-products.

• Must be able to wear required PPE, which may include safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves, hard hat, respirator, protective clothing, and steel-toe footwear.

• Must be able to work in indoor and outdoor processing areas with varying temperatures and humidity.