Your role:

AsElevatorManager, you will be responsible for ensuring high performance execution of plantelevatoractivities 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.Youwill ensure systems, processes, and resources are in place toprovideoptimalcostsavingsand efficient production of grain-based food products for our customers.To succeed, youmustbe 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,andshareyourknowledge 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 providescoaching to salary and hourly operation team membersusingtheArdent Mills corevalues 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 includingCenterlining, 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:

• Bachelor27s degree orHigh School diploma/GEDequivalentwith 4 years of production experience

• Minimum of 2years97 experience having leadership responsibilities inanelevator

• Demonstrated experience with leading others, including performance management, coaching, and developmentwithin a production environment

• Demonstratedknowledge andability to implement LEAN practices and tools to improve processes

• Experience managing projects and driving data based decision making process

Good to have:

• 3+years ofproductionleadershipexperience

• 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 ladders

• Occasionally lifting, shovelingand/or carrying

• Occasionally pushing and/or pulling

• Working in confined or elevated places

Other considerations:

• Must be able to read, interpret instruction and technology and communicate effectively in English

• Must be willing to work alongside yourteam including long days(days, evenings, and nights) as well as weekendsor holiday work.

• Must be authorized to work in the Unites states without sponsorship now and in the future

• Except where prohibited by law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test and pre-employment background check