Career Opportunity Listing  

Skylark Meats, LLC, an American Foods Group Company has opportunities for Purchasing Coordinator at our Omaha, NE location.   As our Purchasing Coordinator, you must be a proactive thinker and resourceful problem-solver who possesses an outgoing, get-it-done attitude. - Maintain accurate production schedules based on sales orders and estimates, management and utilization of raw materials, and reporting production data - Work cross-functionally to provide daily support to customers and other departments to deliver positive results - Communicate and provide accurate reports to customers at their discretion - Maintain product specification database for production support - Maintain point of contact between production and sales and communicate any changes - Be responsible for Packaging and raw material purchasing based on the plant needs - Perform weekly inventory audits to compare to actual usage - Ability to create and modify product label descriptions and sizes 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.

Long Prairie Packing Company, LLC an American Foods Group Company has opportunities for Cattle Barn Clerk. You must have the ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with a dedication to quality.    If you are looking to advance your career, join the AFG family where you can be a part of providing quality beef products to over 40 countries around the world.  Training is provided.   Your hours will genrally be 8AM - 1PM working Saturdays with production.    As our Cattle Barn Clerk, you will: - Reconcile Cattle Receivings to Cattle Lineup - Assist barn with clerical duties - Troubleshoot errors - Input data into plant floor harvest system - Serve as the main person to communicate between cattle barn and cattle payables during working hours - Other duties as assigned  

American Foods Group, LLC, has opportunities for a By-Products Manager to join our team in Green Bay, WI.     If you are looking to advance your career, join the AFG family where you can be a part of providing quality beef products to over 40 countries around the world.    As our By-Products Manger, you will oversee the relationship between American Foods Group facilities as a raw material supplier of associated products and the contractual obligations with our customers. - Provide leadership and support to the company’s production facilities and corporate operations for all by-product / associated product utilization.   - Be responsible for maintaining relationships with current customers and work with new/future customers to create processes and procedures - Monitor customer satisfaction with provided product - Work cross functionally with Marketing, Purchasing, and Regulatory Compliance to drive growth and innovation - Maintain strategic initiatives with Associated Products through process improvement, cost reductions, new products, and other technically based and business driven decisions - Manage staff on projects associated with products including processes and equipment - Report project progress to EVP of Operations - Provide technical support throughout American Foods Group on associated products / rendering - Monitor and identify new technological developments or applications in the meat industry - Perform other duties as necessary to support our operation team and American Foods Group

BUILD YOUR FUTURE WITH AMERICAN FOODS GROUP   Location: This Internship could be based out of one of our facilities across the Midwest. Internship Dates: May 18th – August 14th, 2020   If you are working on earning your bachelors’ degree and have a desire to apply your knowledge within a food manufacturing organization, your next great career opportunity could be with American Foods Group.   In this internship, you will: Gain knowledge and understanding of the business through projects within your declared discipline. A few experiences you will gain are: - The opportunity to become exposed and develop knowledge and skills associated with the beef and further processing business. - Thrive in a team work environment, honing interpersonal skills, and formulate potential career opportunities. - Manage various projects throughout the internship that will be determined by your Mentor/Supervisor. Projects will be specific to your declared discipline. - Earn academic credits though a supervised educational internship (if applicable). - Learn specifically about American Foods Group and gain real work experience that you cannot achieve in the classroom. Available Internships: Note: This is not intended to be all-inclusive.   As an intern in the following department(s), you could:   Accounting, Finance, and Credit - Learn the intricacies of the balance sheet reconciliation process and prepare the monthly balance sheet reconciliations - Work closely with the sales to understand the needs of business development and strategies to support growth while monitoring risk - Become trained in basics of cash management and daily positioning to become a backup for this daily task - Learn the various activities in plant accounting to include cattle procurement, A/P, daily estimates, margin reporting, yields, inventory, and packaging - Assist in the creation of management reporting related to KPI’s - Learn and understand month end close activities Human Resources - Learn driver talent acquisition process by observing and conducting interviews and reviewing reports for compliance - Work cross-functionally with Safety and Compliance Departments on the Company’s Wellness Program - Assume responsibility for creating a 12-month wellness calendar/program to present to Senior Leadership - Rotate through functional areas of business to learn how a Human Resource Professional partners with and influences each department - Scan and organize paper-based employee files into an electronic solution Supply Chain/Operations - Assume responsibility for load planning, optimization, and scheduling of all loads - Proactively work with team members to solve for service failures through relays or planning changes to exhaust all efforts of operations to execute at the lowest possible cost - Pivotal link between planners, Customer Service Representatives, Backhaul Planners, Drivers, Maintenance, Safety, Payroll, Accounting and Human Resources - Assign loads to trucks, following the company’s policy on planning requirements - Process delay in transit messages for all loads and proactively communicate delays to customers on backhaul freight - Respond to customer and operational needs by answering e-mails, phone calls, tracking shipments, and recovering shipments to service our customers - Monitor KPI’s and provide solutions for continuous improvement   Quality Assurance/Food Safety - Monitor employees and plant procedures according to the SQF code and monitor the Active Food Security and Defense surveillance inside the facility and its operations - Maintain daily records of integrity of finished product leaving the facility, including but not limited to: ground beef sampling, leaker checks, HACCP temperature checks, metal detector/x-ray checks, finished product weight checks, tare checks, and specification checks - Communicate with Line Leads and Supervisors if product does not meet specifications - Account for tools, utensils, and other potentially dangerous equipment distributed daily - Complete special projects (as needed) based around; rinse and chill system, sort and weight fall, carcass swabbing, chemical titrations, etc. - Monitor intervention validation studies, sanitary operations, and animal welfare - Perform data entry, AS400 work, and generate monthly trending documents   Operations - This is a hands-on position that is heavily engaged in day-to-day production activities manufacturing millions of pounds of beef on an annual basis. You will work with experienced employees to learn all aspects of either Harvest (Barn, Hide-On, Hide-Off, and Variety Meats) or Fabrication (Boning and Packaging). - Work in different departments alongside supervisors and employees to learn, understand and positively impact production operations - Identify trends and recommends proactive or remedial action to manage business situations - Work with and through management to develop and implement actions that protect company assets and profitability or set policies and procedures - Train and develop management skills while leading and motivating others - Interpret, apply, and/or enforce all company policies, programs, rules, regulations, and safety rules in support of departmental and corporate goals for safety, quality, and production - Active involvement in employee safety and ensuring overall safety in the workplace. - Interact with vendors, suppliers or customers Environmental Health & Safety - Accelerated internship towards Harvest facility operations, heavily lead in compliance management. - Conduct Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Assessments, authoring job hazard analysis, and ensure compliance of respiratory/fall protection - Facilitate Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) orientations for new and existing employees, ensuring training(s) are current - Perform weekly EHS reporting and injury follow-ups - Lead with a high level of interpersonal tactfulness by verbalizing the needs of complex information such as Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) profiles - Work cross-functionally with strategic partners internally and externally to present data, while compelling a convincing message, encouraging buy in, and tracking the tasks to the plant’s accomplishments - Oversee and manage special projects (as needed) throughout the summer; researching and presenting findings verbally and written in an aesthetically appealing way