Senior Production Manager

Pennsylvania Ag Connection; Lititz (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill, Inc Lititz is seeking a Senior Production Manager to lead multi-location manufacturing operations, emphasizing safety, quality, and continuous improvement. You will drive performance, manage budgets, and supervise teams to deliver animal nutrition products efficiently and compliantly.

The role requires strong leadership, a background in operations management, and collaboration across functions to meet corporate guidelines and customer needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years supervisory/management experience in an operations environment.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with people management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee environmental health and safety, food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead continuous improvement projects across multiple plants and locations.
• Support capital projects and reliability initiatives; mentor plant managers during transitions.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Communication skills

Safety culture

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

### Job Details#### Job Title:Senior Production Manager#### Location:,, ,#### Company:#### Industry Sector:#### Industry Type:#### Career Type:#### Job Type:Full Time#### Minimum Years Experience Required:N/A#### Salary:### Get Job Alerts**Career Type:****Country:** USAI agree to receive alerts from and to the .Your alert was created successfully.x## General Alert Saved* The listings below are jobs matching the criteria you've selected for your General Alert on.Criteria selected was:* General alert saved for .* General alert notifications will be sent weekly on Monday.* Please note that you can only have one general alert active at any given time. Creating a new general alert will override an existing general alert.* Visit the to manage your alerts# Senior Production Manager| Number of Years Experience: | Minimum Education Completed: | || Education Major / Discipline Category: | Most Recent / Current Occupation: | |Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.****Job Purpose and Impact****As a Production Manager you will be a part of a business operations leadership team that oversees production of animal nutrition products as efficiently as possible across multiple manufacturing locations while meeting all of Animal Nutrition and Health, Cargilll corporate and government guidelines. This will include your involvement in promoting and maintaining a culture of safety, leading production management practices, personnel management, setting performance standards, establishing budgets, managing costs, employee relations, assisting with the management of capital projects, and implementation of reliability, continuous improvement and customer service excellence.****Key Accountabilities****20% Environmental Health and Safety; Food Safety, Quality, and Regulatory- Influence and support a culture of safety.- Support implementation of safety plans.- Support activities to ensure EHS audit compliance.- Support implementation of food safety and quality plans.- Support activities to ensure food safety and quality compliance.30% Leadership;- Lead through cause analysis to address root causes.- Leading continuous improvement projects/programs via both direct and remote influence.- Champion key initiatives across multiple manufacturing locations.- Temporary fill in for plant manager transitions as needed.50% Manufacturing Excellence- Support execution of continuous improvement/production efficiency/reliability projects across multiple manufacturing locations.- Support execution of assigned capital projects.- Work on projects involving other functions of the business or other plants as assigned.**This position requires up to 50% travel across multiple plant locations within the region.******Qualifications******Minimum Required Qualifications*** Minimum 3 years supervisory/management experience in a operations environment* Demonstrated strong leadership skills.* Demonstated knowledge and experience with people management.* Strong written and verbal communication skills.**Preferred Qualifications*** Bachelor's Degree* Demonstrated success in EHS compliance management (environmental health and safety)* Strong computer skills* Demonstrated maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.* Strong problem solving and decision making skillsEqual Opportunity Employer, including Disability/VetTo apply using chat/text, please click Apply Now button OR use this link to create a login to apply.To apply please click on APPLY TO THIS POSITIONJob Post Date: 10/23/26Here are some other jobs you may be interested in applying for.| | || - | - || Cargill, Inc Lititz, Pennsylvania | Cargill, Inc MOUNT JOY, Pennsylvania || Cargill, Inc Hazleton, Pennsylvania | |7 people are interested in this job.