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Operations Superintendent

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Job ID 309071 Date posted 05/28/2025 Location : Calgary, Canada Category  BUILD OPERATE MAINTAIN (PLANT OPNS) Job Status  Salaried Full Time

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill. 
This position is in Cargill’s protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Operations Superintendent will provide strategic operational oversight for all production and operating process for a single plant or multiple plants with moderate complexity. In this role, you will oversee safety, quality, operational effectiveness and financial performance.

Key Accountabilities

Ensures employee, food safety and environmental compliance program standards and goals are implemented.
Accountable for all internal and external operating and regulatory procedures on employee, food safety including strategic and tactical execution in alignment with corporate environment, health and safety and food safety, quality and regulatory functions as well as government regulations.
Establish and deploy operational priorities for a single plant or multiple plants with moderate complexity.
Leads strategic and tactical operations and quality management deliverables to ensure customer, product and quality standard requirements are met within specifications.
Leads, directs and controls capital and operating budgets for a single plant or multiple plants with moderate complexity to achieve medium term outlook financial performance objectives set by the business.
Ensure and hold direct reports accountable for meeting and controlling operating expenses and established targets.
Oversee the overall operational management and implement operational efficiency improvements which may include standardization of plant information manufacturing systems, quality control, safety, production reliability excellence and maintenance and operators best practices.
Lead and develop a team, coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
Other duties as assigned

Position Information

Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Qualifications

Minimum Required
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of four years of related work experience


Preferred
Lean six sigma
Two years of supervisory experience
Meat industry or similar field experience 
Computer skills (Excel and Microsoft Office Package)

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