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Director, Operations Management - Refinery

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Job ID 319521 Date posted 12/12/2025 Location : Gainesville, Georgia

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Director, Operations Management - Refinery will provide strategic operational guidance and direction for all production and operating facilities with moderate presence in multiple regions or with a moderate degree of complexity. In this role, you will oversee and hold operating facilities accountable to standards for safety, quality, operational effectiveness and financial performance.

Key Accountabilities

  • Implement and monitor employee and product safety and environmental compliance program standards and goals for a most complex plant.
  • Accountable for all internal and external operating and regulatory procedures on employee and product 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.
  • Monitor general operations and maintenance of plant equipment and executes on operational priorities for a most complex plant or multiple plants and monitors operations and quality management deliverables to ensure customer, product and quality standards requirements are met within specifications.
  • Prepares, administers and controls capital and operating budgets for a most complex plant to achieve short and medium term financial performance objectives set by the business and ensure accountability for meeting and controlling operating expenses and established targets.
  • Accountable for the overall operational management of a most complex plant to implement operational efficiency improvements including standardization of plant information manufacturing systems, quality control, safety, production reliability excellence and maintenance and operators best practices.
  • Develop plans and deliver results in a fast-changing business or regulatory environment, while leading and developing a team of experienced professionals and supervisors, coaching and making decisions related to talent management hiring, performance and disciplinary actions. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Reliability and asset management experience
  • Safety and quality ownership experience
  • Budgeting and operations planning experience
  • Minimum of six years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Three years of supervisory experience
  • Digital fluency and acumen

Position information:

  • Relocation will be provided for this position
  • Work schedule:Dayshift M-F:8-5, occasional on call as needed
  • Position is based in Gainesville, Gerogia.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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