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Description
Job Title: Rendering Superintendent
Department: Rendering
Reports to: Mike Mortensen
Location: Beardstown, IL
Effective Date: 07/10/2025
Job Status: Full Time
FLSA Status: Salaried
Travel Requirements: 0-5%
We are looking for a rendering superintendent.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes
Essential Job Functions:
- Manage the flow of product through the Rendering Department
- Ensure acceptable results and yields of products being produced
- Monitor all supervisors to ensure each area is running at maximum productivity and efficiency
- Ensures proper compliance of plant safety rules and regulations
- Assure all machinery is maintained properly and in safe operating condition through preventative maintenance
- Communicate with corporate and other regional plants reporting opportunities, yields, and suggestions on improvements
- Communicate with plant personnel on various issues and relay these issues to all necessary employees in the rendering department
- Act as a liaison between plant management and rendering employees
- Ensure adequate transportation is on hand to distribute products
- Communicate with lab areas on the quality of rendering products
- Order all maintenance parts when necessary
- Directly responsible for training all new supervisors and lead men
Experience Required:
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in the meat industry
- Minimum high school diploma or GED equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in rendering area and working with rendering equipment or in depth knowledge and experience in maintenance at a beef processing plant
- Lab and waste-water experience preferred but not required
Skills/Abilities Required:
- General mechanical skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Proficiency in multiple languages preferred but not required
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Physical Requirements:
- Desk work
- Lifting
- Climbing stairs
- Frequent visits to production areas, environment consists of: Hot, Cold, Smells, PPE Required.
- Work 50+ hours per week on production floor, including weekend work and rotating shifts as needed.
- The schedule for this position is typically Mon - Fri. Weekend work required as scheduled. During Fall Season, Saturdays are typically scheduled.
- Possible exposure to slippery floors, extreme temperature variations, loud noise, chemicals, sharp objectives (knives), machinery, and vehicles.
The Applicant who fills this position will be eligible for the following compensation and benefits:
Benefits:
- Base Salary: $90,005min-$109,356mid
- Health, Dental, Vision coverage begins after 60 days of employment
- Paid Time off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays
- 401(k): company match beings after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule
- Incentive pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan, the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and condition of the incentive program
- Career Development: Our Company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs.
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- JBS/Memorial Hospital Partnership
- On-site bank
- On-site cafeteria
- Employee Assistance Program
- Discounted meat sales
For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in states where it is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for any given position, compensation ranges are specific to those states and takes into account various factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to a candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiencies for the role.
This position does not have an application deadline. We will continue to recruit until the position has been filled
The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.
About us:
JBS USA is a leading global provider of diversified, high-quality food products, including a portfolio of well-recognized brands and innovative, easy-to-use food solutions. We process, prepare, package and deliver fresh and value-added premium meat, poultry and retail-ready food products for customers in approximately 100 countries on six continents. We are also the majority shareholder of Pilgrim’s, the largest poultry company in North America. JBS USA employs more than 100,000 team members, and our corporate office is located in beautiful Greeley, Colorado, where our 1,200 team members onsite enjoy more than 300 days of sunshine a year.
Our mission: To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders and the opportunity of a better future for all of our team members.
Our core values: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity
JBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer EOE/AA/M/F/D/V
Unsolicited Assistance: JBS and its companies do not accept unsolicited assistance from any recruitment vendors for any of our open jobs. All resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee at JBS and its companies or via the applicant tracking system, in any form without a valid written request and search agreement previously approved by HR, will be solely owned by JBS and its companies. No fees will be paid should the candidate be hired by JBS and its companies because of an unsolicited referral.
