Shift Superintendent - Decatur, IL


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Job Title: Shift Superintendent - Decatur, IL
Location: Decatur, IL, Midwest United States, USA

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

Shift Superintendent (East Plant) - Decatur, IL

This is a full time, exempt position.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Ensure safety, quality, and environmental compliance at all times through thorough understanding of ADM and East Plant policies and practices, and routine cross-department auditing.
  • Is the Incident Command PIC (Person In Charge) on shift and is responsible for conducting monthly activities and drills.
  • Ensures that incidents which occur on their shift have investigations that are done in a timely manner and adequately reported.
  • Ensure compliance with all company policies, procedures and practices and recommends changes and/or improvements as needed.
  • Mentors and helps train new Shift Supervisors.
  • Coordinates all maintenance resources in the absence of day shift maintenance management. Strives to adhere to the schedule to maximize efficiency, while addressing any immediate plant operational needs.
  • Works with the Shift Supervisor to maintain discipline within shift and discuss the need for appropriate disciplinary action with the Area Superintendent and Human Resources Manager.
  • Develops and maintains a detailed understanding of plant-wide operations and is responsible for decision making in all areas of the operation in the absence of day shift management.
  • Make vital contacts with safety, quality, environmental, and management where appropriate.
  • Acts as the main contact for all security issues in the absence of day shift management.
  • May perform reasonably similar or related duties as assigned
  • Reports to Plant Superintendent.
Job Requirements:
  • Minimum of 3 years of production and supervisory experience or equivalent.
  • Ability to work the assigned shift.
  • Timely and consistent self-starter with ability to handle deadlines while prioritizing multiple tasks.
  • Demonstrated compliance and leadership in plant Environmental, Health, Safety, and Quality programs.
  • Excellent communication skills - both oral and detailed written are needed to be effective in this position.
  • Strong leadership, management, and interpersonal skills are vital to effectively interact with multiple employees, management personnel, and other stakeholders. Interpersonal skills employed include handling conflict; motivating, instructing, and training personnel in a fair, honest, and direct way.
  • Ability to utilize independent judgment to solve problems, have excellent organizational skills, and strive for continuous improvement.
  • Technical aptitude in math, chemistry, and chemical processes.
  • Ability and willingness to travel as required for training.
  • Basic computer knowledge (Email, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Critical job duties include-

SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environmental, Quality)
  • Ensure safety, quality, and environmental compliance at all times through thorough understanding of ADM and East Plant policies and practices, and routine cross-department auditing.
  • Proactively support, lead, and participate in the company safety programs.
  • Is the Incident Command PIC (Person In Charge) on shift and is responsible for conducting monthly activities and drills.
  • Ensures that incidents which occur on their shift have investigations that are done in a timely manner and adequately reported.
  • Ensures shift employee safety training is completed in a timely manner.
  • Maintains an understanding and proactively addresses quality issues throughout the plant.
  • Knowledgeable and responsible for environmental compliance and decisions on reportable issues.
People
  • Develops employees to focus on safety behaviors of themselves and their fellow employees.
  • Ensure compliance with all company policies, procedures and practices and recommends changes and/or improvements as needed.
  • Mentors and helps train new Shift Supervisors.
  • Provides input on hourly shift personnel to Shift Supervisors and provides feedback to Department Superintendents regarding the performance of the Shift Supervisors.
  • Works with the Shift Supervisor to maintain discipline within shift and discuss the need for appropriate disciplinary action with the Area Superintendent and Human Resources Manager.
Production
  • Develops and maintains a detailed understanding of plant-wide operations and is responsible for decision making in all areas of the operation in the absence of day shift management.
  • Make vital contacts with safety, quality, environmental, and management where appropriate.
  • Coordinates all maintenance resources in the absence of day shift maintenance management. Strives to adhere to the schedule to maximize efficiency, while addressing any immediate plant operational needs.
  • Acts as the main contact for all security issues in the absence of day shift management.
  • Ensures completion of requests and instruction in individual department communications.
  • Work on special projects as assigned by the Plant Superintendent and assists Area Superintendents with project work.
Excited about this role but don't think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.

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Job Post Date: 09/12/25
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