Assistant Plant Superintendent - Decatur, IL

Assistant Plant Superintendent - Decatur, IL

This is a full-time, exempt position.

• •Provide visible leadership and accountability for all plant safety, health, environmental, and quality programs.
• •Ensure compliance with all ADM policies, procedures, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
• •Promote a culture where safety is the first priority and all employees are actively engaged in hazard identification and mitigation.
• •Lead incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action implementation.
• •Ensure environmental permits, reporting requirements, and compliance obligations are met.
• •Champion Behavioral Safety Excellence (BSE) and Operational Excellence initiatives throughout the facility.
• •Ensure all quality standards, customer requirements, and product specifications are consistently met.
• •Lead emergency response preparedness efforts and serve as Incident Commander during plant emergencies when required.

• •Direct all aspects of plant operations to safely maximize production, efficiency, reliability, and profitability.
• •Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of all manufacturing processes, equipment, and production constraints.
• •Establish daily, weekly, and monthly operating priorities to meet business objectives.
• •Monitor and drive performance against key metrics including safety, quality, throughput, yield, downtime, energy usage, and cost.
• •Ensure effective communication and coordination between operations, maintenance, quality, engineering, and logistics teams.
• •Provide leadership during operational disruptions and make timely decisions to protect employees, assets, customers, and production commitments.
• •Lead plant operational reviews and continuous improvement activities to increase performance and reduce losses.

• •Partner with maintenance leadership to develop and execute preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• •Ensure maintenance activities are aligned with operational priorities and production schedules.
• •Drive equipment reliability improvements and help identify capital and maintenance projects needed to improve performance.
• •Participate in plant shutdown planning, execution, and post-outage evaluations.
• •Monitor maintenance spending and resource utilization to ensure effective asset management.

• •Lead, coach, mentor, and develop supervisors, operators, and hourly team members.
• •Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, ownership, and continuous learning.
• •Support recruiting, onboarding, training, succession planning, and employee development activities.
• •Conduct performance evaluations and provide timely coaching and feedback.
• •Ensure consistent application of company policies, procedures, and performance expectations.
• •Partner with Human Resources on employee relations, disciplinary matters, and workforce planning.
• •Promote employee engagement and encourage participation in improvement initiatives.

• •Lead efforts to improve plant productivity, reliability, efficiency, and cost performance.
• •Utilize Operational Excellence, Lean Manufacturing, and continuous improvement methodologies to eliminate waste and improve processes.
• •Identify opportunities for process optimization, capital improvements, and cost reduction initiatives.
• •Support annual business planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities.
• •Track and communicate plant performance metrics and improvement opportunities.

Additional

• •Proven commitment to safety and environmental compliance.
• •Strong leadership, team-building, and employee development skills.
• •Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• •Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• •Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• •Ability to make sound decisions under pressure and during operational upsets.
• •Understanding of manufacturing processes, process improvement, reliability, and asset management principles.
• •Experience with root cause analysis and corrective action processes.
• •Working knowledge of budgeting, cost management, and business performance metrics.
• •Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• •Ability and willingness to work flexible hou