Director, Oil & Germ Operations
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Job Location:
Memphis, TN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
13-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Cargills 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 160000 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 Cargills food and bioindustrialbusiness 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 Director Oil & Germ Operations role will provide strategic operational guidance and direction for all production and operating facilities at our Memphis TN location with a moderate degree of this role you will oversee and hold operating facilities accountable to standards for environmental health and safety food safety and quality operational effectiveness and financial performance.
Key Accountabilities
- Implement and monitor employee and product safety and environmental compliance program standards and goals for a moderate 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 moderate complex plant 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 moderate 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 moderate 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 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.
- Relationship management with teams in Memphis and within the functional business.
- Other duties as assigned
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Reliability and asset management experience
- Envirnoment health & safety along with food safety & quality ownership experience
- Budgeting and monthly expense capital investment and operations planning experience
- Minimum of six years of related work experience
- Ability to travel up to 5%
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with people first leader engaging team members and driving results
- Bachelors degree in engineering
- Ten years of supervisory experience
- Digital fluency and acumen
- Experience collaborating with multiple parties at various levels within the organization for projects and process improvements
- Experience with High Hazardous Process
Position Details
Location: TN-Memphis; Relocation support may be provided
Schedule is Monday Friday typically from 7am to 4pm. There are also some events that might need to work on the weekends and on-call
The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).
Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vet
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Employee Relations
- Employee Evaluation
- Management Experience
- Profit & Loss
- Conflict Management
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Budgeting
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Leadership management
- Financial Planning
About Company
Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.
