Career Opportunity Listing  

Long Prairie Packing Company, LLC, an American Foods Group Company has an opportunity for a Cattle Accounts Payable at our Long Prairie plant.   As Cattle Accounts Payable, you will: - Compile all sale barn/owner information for USDA tests. - Pay Freight. - Manage Certificates of Insurance for trucking-keep updated and current. - Create 1099’s for end of year and verify 1099 information is accurate. - Be responsible for AFG Purchasing and special cattle purchasing. - Verify back tags, head count so correct sale barns and producers are paid appropriately. - Prepare lots to be keyed, verify cow/bull receiving and knocking, matching barn line up. - Revise the receiving that have estimated received weights. Record condemns. - Key lots, check yields, review prices, build buys, cut checks. - Reconcile weights, grades, back tags from the scale and knock box. - End of day reconciliation with scale, barn line up, making sure head count and weight balances, and that all Grade and Yield has buys. - Be proficient in 10 key data entry. - Finalize reports, forward emails to established coworkers. - Teach and demonstrates company’s commitment to safety and quality of work. - NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.

Gibbon Packing LLC, an American Foods Group company, has an opportunity for a Plant Manager at our Gibbon facility.   As Plant Manager, you will: - Supervise of Department Heads within the Plant. - Direct Superintendents and Managers in maintaining a safe working environment.   - Assure that the Plant meets Productivity and Yield Standards. - Direct the Management Team in achieving least cost output. - Oversee the progressive disciplinary action system. - Hire and continually upgrade training of Management personnel. - Communicate daily and long term objectives to the Management team. - Answer issues with government regulatory personnel - Serve on various teams as needed. - Direct the operations of plant departments in the absence of the Department Head. This includes responsibilities for Human Resources, Maintenance, Food Safety, Slaughter, Fabrication, Rendering, Hide Processing, Transportation, Purchasing and Industrial Safety.   - NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.

American Foods Group, LLC has an opportunity for a Purchasing Manager to join our team for our new America's Heartland Packing facility in Warren County, Missouri. - Oversee all areas of purchasing and will be responsible for all facility level buying and institution of national agreements, contracts, and programs.    - Develop, train, and execute best practices of e-Purchasing, e-Commerce, SCM, CMMS, MRO, BPO, Consignment programs, and Supply Chain Integration Strategies. - Purchase industrial equipment, utilities, plant packaging materials, and chemicals. - Assist with establishing annual leasing programs and contracts at the facility level. - Responsible for training purchasing employees in policies, procedures, purchasing protocols & KPI’s. - Directly responsible for development of all CERs, capital purchases, and budgets. - Will audit department related to purchasing SOP’s. - Will assist in annual budgeting of operational and packaging supplies. - Work directly with Controller, Maintenance Manager, & Corporate Purchasing on corporate strategic sourcing national account/agreement programs. - Prepare purchase orders and solicit bid proposals. - Assist in inventories.  Monitor monthly. - Develop and update a strategic purchasing plan that leverages purchasing synergies. - Support and resolve supplier management issues (on-time delivery, supply disruption, supplier quality follow up issues or other contractual compliance issues as deemed appropriate). - Lead staff to execute purchases at lowest total acquisition cost through effective supplier selection, negotiation, material planning, and conformance criteria for development projects and ongoing supply. - Develop, negotiate, and implement lean material flow (supply) initiatives. - Manage leverage requirements and achieve best-in-class supply chain performance. - Research, select and negotiate with potential suppliers and vendors for the acquisition of manufacturing, development and testing equipment, building and expanding the assembly line and production area. - Be a change agent for procurement and manage the overall relationship with the business and key stakeholders. - Enable the timely procurement of goods and services by aligning the best overall value to AFG within established procurement policies and procedures. - Offer insights and leverage knowledge of market conditions for goods/services purchased. - NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.

Internship Dates: Full Time for approximately 12 weeks (May - August).  Position may extend through expected graduation date.    As a Operations Production Scheduler Intern, you will gain knowledge and understanding of the business through hands on activities, coaching, and projects. A few learning opportunities include:  - Responsibility for maintaining accurate production schedules based on sales orders and estimates, management, and utilization of raw materials, and reporting production data. - Communicating and providing accurate reports to customers at their discretion. - Maintaining product specification database for production support. - Maintaining a point of contact between production and sales and communicate any changes. - Development, training, and execution of best practices of e-Purchasing, e-Commerce, SCM, CMMS, MRO, BPO, Consignment programs, and Supply Chain Integration Strategies. - Purchasing industrial equipment, utilities, plant packaging materials, and chemicals. - Assisting with establishing annual leasing programs and contracts at the facility level. Will work directly with Corporate Director of Purchasing on corporate strategic sourcing national account/agreement programs. - Assisting and monitoring in inventories. - NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.