General Manager - Darling Ingredients : Job Details

Darling Ingredients is looking to hire a General Manager for our rendering facility in Bastrop, TX. Are you ready to take your career to the next level in management with a stable worldwide company? This position earns a competitive salary, depending on experience, plus bonus opportunities based on performance. We also offer comprehensive full-time benefits, including full medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan, vacation time, and more. If you have leadership experience that you're ready to use in this plant management opportunity, please consider applying today!

ABOUT DARLING INGREDIENTS

We began as a family business in 1882 and have continued to grow into the world's leading innovative developer and producer of sustainable organic ingredients for a growing population. Headquartered in Irving, TX with regional offices in Cold Spring, KY and Des Moines, IA as well as production facilities across the U.S., we have over 10,000 employees across the globe. We repurpose and reuse rather than discarding what others might consider waste. We capture valuable ingredients and nutrients to help maximize what nature has to offer, providing components for a wide range of products that include pet food, fertilizer, and biofuel. Giving nature a second life is our second nature.

Our greatest assets are our employees. Our inclusive global workforce and their wide variety of skills, abilities, experiences, and perspectives have been critical in helping us consistently deliver best-in-class results around the world. In order to attract and retain employees who share our values of integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship, we offer competitive pay, excellent benefits, stability, and opportunities for career growth.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A GENERAL MANAGER

As a General Manager at one of our rendering plants, you are responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the plant and enforcement of production standards in quality, efficiency, and sanitation activities. You assist in the development of the annual budget as well as the recruitment, selection, onboarding, orientation, and development of employees. As the General Manager, you are responsible for all activities of the operation.

Passionate about safety, you ensure that all new employees are prepared to safely work in a heavy industrial environment. You are always looking for opportunities to increase productivity and efficiency. Using your technical proficiency in logic-based computer controls for plant or fleet operations, you design, install, maintain, and troubleshoot control programs. You ensure that quality standards are consistently met.

Responsible for capital and monthly expensed projects, you process all corporate invoices and ensure that payments have been authorized by the appropriate corporate office personnel. Your job is highly interactive, as you maintain professional liaisons with customers, local work staff, and corporate staff. You get great satisfaction out of ensuring the success and profitability of the plant.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR A GENERAL MANAGER

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Authorized to work in the US.
• At least 5+ years of mid-level management experience in an agriculture-related operation such as poultry, grain or meat processing or a similar industry.

HIGHLY PREFERRED:

• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• Experience in a heavy industrial environment to provide leadership and guidance to crew members in operations, maintenance, and administrative managerial roles.
• Knowledge about federal and state-regulated compliance programs relating to transportation, environmental and safety as well as hiring and labor relations.
• Mechanical aptitude and/or engineering background helpful.
• Computer proficiency and the ability to learn software programs quickly.

Experience in rendering would be a big asset. Do you have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal? Can you both give and take direction? Are you organized and able to effectively prioritize and delegate multiple tasks? Do you enjoy coaching and mentoring others? Are you a natural problem-solver who remains calm under pressure? If so, you might just be perfect for this General Manager position!

PLANT MANAGEMENT WORK SCHEDULE

This plant management position requires flexible availability.

READY TO JOIN OUR PLANT MANAGEMENT TEAM?

We understand your time is valuable and that is why we have a very quick and easy application process. If you feel that you would be right for this processing plant management job, please fill out our initial brief, mobile-friendly application. We look forward to meeting you!

Darling Ingredients is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military service, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local law.