Career Opportunity Listing  

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

Skylark Meats, LLC, an American Foods Group Company has opportunities for Shipping Dock Supervisor at our Omaha plant.   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 Shipping Dock Supervisor, you will: - Supervise shipping and receiving of all product from/to Skylark Meats - Watch over the inventory (dates, qualities, etc.) - Communicate with shag driver to get trailers here from the drop lot and live loads backed into the doors to get loaded/unloaded - Monitor the loading and unloading of vehicles transporting materials used in food processing looking for any evidence of tampering, foreign objects and suspicious alterations in shipping/receiving documents - Double check orders and look for special shipping instructions - Responsible for the cleanliness of facility including docks, freezers, coolers, outside grounds, etc. - Monitor condensation of doorways and underneath ammonia pipes - Provide assistance and training on the scan guns and scan systems - Manage dock staff (schedules, time off requests, payroll reports, etc.) - Other duties as assigned

Gibbon Packing, LLC, an American Foods Group Company has opportunities for a Harvest Supervisor at our Gibbon, NE, plant.   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 Harvest Supervisor, you will:  - Maintain high production, quality, and yields while ensuring the safest working environment possible. - Ensure every position is filled before start-up of production line. - Oversee Team Member and job rotation in order to facilitate ergonomics. - Ensure all workstations have passed USDA Inspection. - Promote safety on a daily basis.  - Oversee various harvest operations and working with other supervisors in solving problems. - Prove continuous educaiton on the importance of quality.