Operations Lead in Jefferson, Iowa at Landus Cooperative

About the Role

The Grain Operations Lead is responsible for overseeing the management and optimization of operational processes and projects, ensuring alignment between daily operations and long-term strategic objectives. This leadership role includes supervising activities, resolving operational challenges, driving efficiency improvements, and ensuring grain operations and quality are maintained at the highest standards. The Grain Operations Lead will mentor and guide team members while collaborating with organizational leaders to achieve growth and operational excellence.

What will you do?

· Supervise and support location personnel in logistics, inventory management, blending, and housekeeping operations.

· Ensure the timely staging, blending, and loading of trains while maintaining efficiency and quality standards.

· Provide training and mentorship to team members, ensuring safe and effective elevator operations.

· Identify, prioritize, and resolve maintenance issues within grain assets.

· Oversee and validate grain inventory accuracy and quality across assigned locations.

· Educate personnel on proper grain management techniques, including preventing over-drying and addressing off-grade or mixed grain issues.

· Contribute to the planning and execution of annual and multi-year facility expansion and optimization projects.

· Ensure all safety and compliance procedures are followed, serving as a safety champion across locations.

· Collaborate with organizational leaders to optimize grain operations and align strategies with business goals.

· Uphold and enforce company policies and procedures related to human resources, grain and operations.

Licenses: This position requires the safe operation of a motor vehicle to perform the essential functions of the job. The employee must meet the qualifications set forth in the company’s vehicle safety policy. Failure to meet these qualifications could result in removal from this position.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform 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; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.