Feed Millman in South Whitley, Indiana at Ag Plus
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Job Description
About Company:
At Ag Plus, we are a customer-driven and profitable cooperative dedicated to providing our patrons with premium value through our high-quality products and services.
Our VisionOur vision is to be a successful and innovative full-service agribusiness by excelling in:
- Service Leadership – Setting the standard for exceptional customer service
- Growth & Innovation – Embracing new opportunities to strengthen our cooperative
- Efficiency – Delivering top-tier solutions with precision and expertise
- Community Commitment – Supporting and enriching the communities we serve
- Unity & Strength – Fostering collaboration for lasting success
- Employee Dedication – Investing in the people who drive our mission forward
For over a century, northeast Indiana has been home to a hardworking farming community built on integrity, resilience, and family values. These same principles remain at the heart of Ag Plus today.
What started as a modest group of farmers has grown into a thriving cooperative with over 1,400 members, serving communities across eleven counties. Despite our growth, we remain locally owned and operated—not by a distant boardroom, but by the farmers we proudly serve.
Ag Plus is open to everyone in northeastern Indiana—no memberships, no annual fees. Our success stays within the local markets we serve, benefiting our communities time and time again.
To best support our members, Ag Plus operates across five key divisions:
- Agronomy – Precision Ag, crop nutrients, protection, and seed solutions
- Energy – Reliable liquid fuels and LP gas services
- Feed – Quality bagged and bulk feed options
- Grain – Comprehensive grain services, including trucking
- Turf – A full line of turf products with expert advice
At Ag Plus, we remain committed to delivering value, fostering growth, and serving our communities for generations to come.
Summary
Feed Mill Workers are responsible for operating machinery and equipment used to process, mix, and prepare animal feed within the mill for manufacturing. This often includes weighing and measuring a variety of ingredients, monitoring production processes, and ensuring that finished feed products meet quality and safety standards. This role is essential to the agriculture and livestock industries to ensure that animals receive the appropriate nutrition.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Assist the feed mill operator by preparing all hand added ingredients which are mixed in manufactured feed daily.
- Help with manufacturing and stacking feeds for floor stock.
- Be able to operate the mill entirely if feed mill operator is absent (mixer, legs, sacker, forklift and feed delivery truck) daily.
- Be able to follow ration sheets and figure percentages in mixtures as well as animal health product levels daily.
- Keep daily feed run sheets and batch mix sheets for all feed manufactured.
- Keep feed mill and storage facilities clean and in proper operating condition.
- Assist in monthly and annual inventory records.
- Load customers out from the dock and be able to communicate and handle problems professionally and courteously to ensure excellent customer service.
- Unload packaged material from the receiving dock and follow the receiving process determined by Synergy Feeds, LLC.
- Assist with maintenance of feed mill and related feed mill equipment.
- Continuously follows the safety guidelines and safety programs established by Synergy Feeds, LLC.
- Any other tasks as assigned by management.
Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Problem solving- identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; develops alternative solutions.
- Customer Service- Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; Responds promptly to customer needs; Solicits customer feedback to improve service; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments.
- Interpersonal Skills- Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; Maintains confidentiality; Listens to others without interrupting; Keeps emotions under control: Remains open to others’ ideas and tries new things.
- Oral Communication- Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; Listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions; Demonstrates group presentations skills; Participates in meetings.
- Teamwork- Exhibits objectivity and openness to others’ views; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Supports everyone’s efforts to succeed.
- Quality Management- Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
- Ethics- Treats people with respect; Keeps commitments; Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.
- Motivation- Sets and achieves challenging goals; Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; Measures self against standard of excellence.
- Planning/ Organizing- Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently; Pans for additional resources; Sets goals and objectives.
- Professionalism- Approaches others in a tactful manner; Reacts well under pressure; Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; Accepts responsibility for own actions; Follows through on commitments.
- Quality- Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness: Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
- Quantity- Meets productivity standards; Completes work in timely manner; Strive to increase productivity; Works quickly.
- Safety & Security- Observes safety and security procedures: Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; uses equipment and materials properly.
- Attendance/Punctuality- Is consistently at work and on time; Ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent; Arrives at meetings and appointments on time.
- Dependability- Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals. Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
- Initiative- Seeks increased responsibilities: Takes independent actions and calculated risks; Looks for and takes advantage of opportunities; Asks for and offers help when needed.
Supervisory Responsibilities
None.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience
High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Skills
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Mathematical Skills
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ration, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Physical Demands
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.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. and occasionally lift and /or move more than 100 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of his job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and extreme heat. The employee is frequently exposed to high precarious places, fumes, or airborne particles, extreme cold, risk of electrical shock, explosives, and vibrations. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Day Shift