Production Excellence Senior Supervisor

Company: Cargill
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Location: Kingston upon Hull
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you drive production excellence across manufacturing plants, leading a team to implement and optimize processes that boost performance and value. You work with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure safety, quality, and efficiency while advancing continuous improvement initiatives. You will guide maintenance, reliability, and process optimization, shaping how production meets metrics and supports the broader business goals. This is an international, fast-paced environment where you can influence operational excellence at scale.

Pay / Benefits

  • competitive salary and benefits
  • career development opportunities
  • inclusive and accessible recruitment process
  • support for accommodations during recruitment

Responsibilities

  • Provide guidance to oversee operations by analyzing failures and lost production and implementing solutions to improve systems, standard work and processes
  • Coordinate deployment of technology solutions with safety, food safety, quality, capacity, reliability, and cost considerations
  • Lead the implementation and optimization of production excellence processes and components
  • Lead and implement proactive maintenance and reliability and continuous improvement activities for a less complex site or a single more complex department
  • Ensure alignment of local and departmental stakeholders including operations, environmental and supply chain
  • Measure and monitor readiness and implement process improvement processes and procedures
  • Oversee execution of measurement processes and monitor variances and corrections
  • Lead and develop a team of direct reports, coaching and decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions

Key requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Related work experience with plant operations and process optimization
  • Supervisory experience
  • Other minimum qualifications may apply
  • Ability to translate highly technical information across levels of technical knowledge
  • Project management and coordination
  • Strong communication and collaboration across functions
  • Continuous Improvement / Operational Excellence (Lean, Six Sigma, TPM)
  • Proactive maintenance and reliability
  • Project management (PPM, concept & business case)

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Posted: October 1st, 2026