Process Shift Supervisor

Founded more than 125 years ago and based in Scottsbluff for this opportunity, with headquarters in Denver and processing facilities across Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, we are a grower-owned agricultural cooperative with a longstanding history of transforming locally grown sugar beets into high-quality sugar. Our Scottsbluff operation is part of an established regional manufacturing network built around safety, quality, operational excellence, and the communities we serve.

About the role

Frontline Leadership: Direct and develop shift personnel across all sugar-processing stations. High-Impact Role: Improve safety, quality, productivity, equipment reliability, and overall process performance. Hands-On Environment: Spend up to 80% of your time on the factory floor supporting employees and troubleshooting operations. Continuous Improvement: Use KPIs, root cause analysis, and process-improvement methods to drive measurable results. Cross-Functional Exposure: Work closely with production, process engineering, maintenance, purchasing, and plant leadership. Growth Opportunity: Candidates with transferable processing leadership experience can learn sugar-beet processing and expand their maintenance knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead shift personnel responsible for processing sugar beets and producing finished sugar.
• Promote safe working practices and support the facility’s goal of maintaining a zero-injury workplace.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe production environment.
• Plan, organize, schedule, and direct shift activities to optimize production performance.
• Ensure adherence to established quality systems, processes, and operating procedures.
• Monitor, measure, and report production performance, KPIs, and operational issues.
• Troubleshoot processing problems and use root cause analysis to implement lasting corrective actions.
• Train employees on factory stations, operating procedures, safety expectations, and productivity standards.
• Participate actively in continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate with purchasing to ensure required processing and operating supplies are available.
• Partner with process engineering, production, maintenance, and factory leadership to support preventive maintenance.
• Coordinate maintenance activities during scheduled non-processing downtime to improve equipment reliability and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with other shift supervisors to maintain seamless shift transitions and establish shift schedules.
• Apply the labor agreement as needed and hold employees accountable to established rules and expectations.
• Spend up to 80% of working time on the factory floor supporting, coaching, and collaborating with employees.

Requirements

• Proven supervisory experience within an industrial processing or manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead hourly production employees in a hands-on factory setting.
• Experience improving safety, productivity, process performance, or product quality.
• Working knowledge of production processes, KPIs, operational troubleshooting, and safe work practices.
• Ability and willingness to develop mechanical, chemical-process, and preventive-maintenance knowledge.
• Willingness to learn and apply continuous-improvement methods, including root cause analysis and Lean Six Sigma principles.
• Computer proficiency with Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Ability to work effectively with hourly employees, technical teams, other supervisors, and senior management.

Qualifications

Preferred, Not Required:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Five to ten years of process or industrial manufacturing experience.
• Three to five years of maintenance experience.
• Sugar-beet processing or sugar-refining experience.

Pay

$90,000 - $105,000 per year