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Senior Director, Facility Manager

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Job ID 308562 Date posted 05/21/2025 Location : Dayton, Ohio

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 food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products. 

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Director, Facility Manager will provide strategic operational oversight for all significant and highly complex production and operating processes at our corn milling plant in Dayton, OH. In this role, you will lead and direct a team to meet organization standards for safety, quality, operational effectiveness and financial performance.

Key Accountabilities

  • Provide strategic development for highly complex wet corn milling production and operations to ensure safe operations in compliance with regulatory and organizations safety and environmental program standards and goals.
  • Lead and direct base and nonbase capital investment projects and spending for a global business.
  • Provide operational strategy, management and compliance of capital and operating budgets for a highly complex plant and be responsible for capital investment projects and spending.
  • Lead and be responsible for strategic implementation results of operational efficiency programs for a highly complex plant with multiple production lines for products spanning across multiple geographies, businesses and customers.
  • Provide operational leadership and fosters a culture that builds and maintains plants that are operationally sound, safe and efficient.
  • You will provide strategic leadership, development and talent management for direct reports and their organization, which may include forecasting resource needs, recruiting, hiring, performance management, training and budgeting. You will also coordinate subordinate managers and supervisors in selecting staff to align with current and future needs of the organization.
  • Other duties as assigned

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Experience and responsibility for budgets and operational planning
  • Minimum of eight years of related work experience, five years of supervisory experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Leadership experience working in a wet corn milling environment

Position Details

  • Location: OH-Dayton
  • There are also some events that might need to work on the weekends and on-call
  • Relocation support may be provided

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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