Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will lead team members to accomplish process improvement opportunities while ensuring production, quality, and safety targets are met at our St. Elmo, Illinois facility. You will guide, coach, and develop employees to create an engaged, team‑oriented workforce that delivers results across safety, quality, cost, and service.

A Taste of Your Responsibilities

• Monitor production performance to ensure quality, productivity, and cost standards are maintained.
• Provide training and resources to ensure employees are performing job responsibilities effectively.
• Oversee sanitation practices to maintain a clean and food‑safe environment.
• Coach and enforce plant rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Evaluate employee performance and communicate improvement expectations.
• Support plant and company safety programs, maintaining strong adherence to requirements such as lock‑out/tag‑out, personal protective equipment, and confined space entry.
• Manage Adherence, Attainment, and Productivity to deliver plant targets.

Ingredients Required for Your Success

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, Food Science, Agricultural Sciences, or another Natural Science field required.
• 2+ years supervisory experience.
• Previous experience in a manufacturing environment; food manufacturing preferred.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and loss.
• Knowledge of plant equipment and safety practices.
• SAP experience preferred.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Compensation: 

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company:

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye ®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.