Production Manager – Night Shift - Dairy Plant
Cube Management · Norfolk, NE
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $100k–$120k
- Travel
- 0%
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at Cube Management (industrial) in Norfolk, NE.
- They ask for
- 7+ years · degree preferred
- Tools it names
- DOE, EHS / safety
- Base pay
- $100k–$120k
- Day to day
- about 0% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $116k–$158k. This one lists $100k–$120k.
Median of the low and high ends of 241 live postings that list pay, out of 787 production engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Nebraska plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 9 other live production postings in Nebraska.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (7+ vs 10+)
Similar roles usually ask 10+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 50%
- ✓ EHS / safety 30%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at Cube Management
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- The posting says about 0% travel. Between which sites?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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Full description from Cube ManagementAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Develop key manufacturing plans and programs toward budgeted unit cost and output objectives.
- ◆Coordinate activities of all manufacturing functional areas to assure continuity towards plant goals, communicating priorities as necessary.
- ◆Develop SOP’s for all production processes.
- ◆Sustain production capacity that is synchronized with sales volume requirements, developing contingency plans as needed.
- ◆Develop and track annual operating budget for measurement towards objectives.
- ◆Maintain and improve the quality of the plant assets, both current and fixed.
- ◆Develop and improve technical and manufacturing management skills at the plant.
- ◆Develop and implement performance standards for all supervisors maintaining current job descriptions and improvement plans.
- ◆Establish appropriate scheduling and employee work schedules in line with customer orders and plant performance requirements.
- ◆Work with Purchasing to establish quality specifications for incoming raw materials, monitoring these raw materials to ensure that specifications are met.
- ◆With Quality/ R&D, develop new products/processes and improve current products/processes. Establish procedures and supervise all experimental and test runs, reporting all results.
- ◆Manage inventory of off-spec materials, including the scheduling and reworking of products as needed.
- ◆Responsible for maintaining formulation data system including entering all new product formulations.
Education & Experience
- ✓5-7 years previous management experience in a food grade operation.
- ✓Background in dairy, evaporators, and/or drying technologies
- ✓Dairy manufacturing or whey experience is required.
- ✓Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- ✓Excellent knowledge of plant operation procedures and business system software applications.
- ✓Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- ✓Previous supervisory experience.
- ✓Bachelor's degree preferred
- ✓Ability to work a night shift schedule of 6pm-6am 2-2-3 Schedule
Base Salary: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00 (DOE) + 10% Bonus
Location: Norfolk, NE
Relocation: Yes - Package TBD - Nationwide search
Openings: (1)
Travel: 0%
If you wish to be part of this successful and vibrant organization, please email a MS Word version of your resume to recruiting3151@cubemanagement.com. This company is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.
Cube Management is a global recruiting and consulting firm that helps companies accelerate their sales, by providing the top-level talent they need to grow their business. Cube Management is a leading recruiting and consulting partner to emerging growth, mid-market and global companies in the technology, manufacturing, healthcare, consumer package goods and business service sectors. We work across the spectrum of Operations, Sales, Marketing, Safety, Engineering, Accounting and Business Development, providing holistic solutions that drive revenue and profit success. Cube Management combines Strategy, Process and People, to produce great results.
For a complete listing of our current job listings please visit http://cubemanagement.com/candidates/job-listings/
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