Assistant Plant Superintendent - Decatur, IL

Archer Daniels Midland

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• 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.

• Serve as primary point of contact for plant operations during off-hours and emergency situations.
• Coordinate with corporate, regional, and facility leadership on strategic initiatives and performance objectives.
• Lead special projects as assigned.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Technology, Business, or related field preferred.
• Minimum of 5-10 years of manufacturing, processing, or industrial operations experience.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of leadership or supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading operations in a continuous process or industrial manufacturing environment preferred.

• 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 hours and respond to plant emergencies when needed.
• Ability to travel occasionally for meetings and training.

• Achieves world-class safety performance through visible leadership and employee engagement.
• Ensures a safe work environment and compliance with all regulatory and company requirements.

• Delivers production targets while optimizing quality, reliability, and cost performance.
• Maintains focus on continuous improvement and operational efficiency.

• Builds strong teams through coaching, accountability, training, and succession planning.
• Creates an environment where employees are empowered to contribute and improve.

• Drives measurable improvements in plant performance metrics including:
  • Safety
  • Quality
  • Throughput
  • Yield
  • Reliability
  • Downtime
  • Cost Control
  • Employee Engagement

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