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Packaging Lead

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Job ID 314311 Date posted 09/10/2025 Location : Sidney, Ohio Category  BUILD OPERATE MAINTAIN (PLANT OPNS) Job Status  Hourly Full Time

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose and Impact

Job type: Full time
Shifts available: 2nd shift
Compensation: $31.85/hr

Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Insurance
  • Health and Wellness Incentives
  • Paid Vacation and Holidays
  • 401(k) with Cargill matching contributions
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • Short-Term Disability and Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Employee Discounts
  • Access to discounted daycare tuition and priority access at local Sidney YMCA childcare center


New, easy-to-apply options are available for this role: chat with our recruiting assistant Ana at careers.cargill.com or text CargillJobs to 60196.

Key Accountabilities

Principal Accountabilities:

  • Follow all packaging schedules’ and handle all unplanned events.
  • May perform break relief and other coverage as needed.
  • Improve Technical Efficiency (TE) performance by analyzing and improving changeovers and reducing performance loss.
  • Coordinate with the maintenance department, create work orders using SAP and completing daily paperwork and communication logs to reduce downtime on the lines
  • Collect information to prepare shifts reports and escalating concerns in a timely manner
  • Review and respond appropriately to issues recorded on the tracking boards to avoid rework.
  • Assist with continuous improvement, manager of rework and general activities.
  • Confirm Work Orders in SAP and completing daily paperwork and communication logs.
  • Communicate effectively with supervisors/managers and operators
  • Capable to learn basic operations for multiple packaging technologies
  • Collect out-of-spec Raw Materials for review by supervision and procurement.
  • Effectively coach and document personnel issues to achieve high performance team.
  • Understanding and adhering to all safety rules and regulations(including food safety policies and procedures).
  • Maintaining a safe and clean work environment.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Right to work in the U.S. that is not based solely on possession of a student visa or a visa sponsored by a third-party employer.
  • Cargill requires employees be a minimum of 18 years old to work in a production facility.
  • Ability to understand and communicate in English (verbal/written)
  • High School diploma, GED or equivalent experience.
  • Basic use of a computer
  • Ability to perform physical job duties which may include bending, lifting up to 50 lbs, kneeling, climbing, crawling, and twisting safely, with or without a reasonable accommodation
  • Ability to work in varied indoor and outdoor conditions which may include heat, cold, dust, loud noise, etc., with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
  • Ability to work overtime including weekends, holidays, or different shifts with advance notice



Preferred Qualifications:

  • Previous experience as lead operator
  • Use of SAP (production system) and WM6 (inventory management)

Considered candidates will receive a phone call from a (952) area code. Please note that this position does not include relocation reimbursement



Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet



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