CHS Inc.

Grain Location & Operations Manager

Posted on: 13 Mar 2021

Edgeley, ND

Job Description

Job Posting

CHS has an exciting opportunity in our Country Operations Division. We are looking for a Grain Location & Operations Manager. You must be self-motivated, hard working, have good time management & organizational skills, able to make decisions, work independently, and have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and customer focused. This position has opportunity for growth.

You Will:

* Manage the elevator operation according to divisional objectives to provide patrons with prompt, courteous and effective service while maintaining the efficiency necessary to achieve a maximum margin of profit.
* Establish and implement a program of elevator housekeeping, safety and equipment maintenance to avoid breakdowns and limit safety hazards.
* Oversee the accurate weighing, grading, and quality control to include mixing, blending and moving grain.
* Monitor stored grain condition.
* Monitor the daily long/short position to effectively control grain handling, storage, and transportation capabilities.
* Educate both employees and patrons in the operations of a cooperative and CHS business objectives to enhance employee effectiveness and improve member relations.
* Establish and implement short-term goals that are consistent with long range plans for growth in operation, including facility, equipment, and personnel.
* Communicate with supervisor and appropriate divisional personnel (grain marketing, farm supply, credit).
* Utilize personnel within CHS and its divisions to maximize profitability
* Manage the elevator workforce through responsible training and clear job assignment definition and explanation.
* Monitor the work of all employees to correct deficient performance and effectively reward and develop all employees.
* Perform other duties as assigned.
* Work extended hours as needed to meet business needs.

Basic Qualifications: (required)

* Bachelors degree in an Agriculture degree program (additional years of experience may offset degree requirement)
* 6 plus years of combined production agriculture and elevator management experience

Preferred Qualifications: (desired)

* Supervisory experience

CHS Inc.

Inver Grove Heights, MN

CHS Inc., an integrated agricultural company, provides grains, foods, and energy resources to businesses and consumers worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Energy, Ag, and Nitrogen Production. It engages in the operation of petroleum refineries and pipelines; supply, marketing, and distribution of refined fuels, including gasoline, diesel fuel, and other energy products; blending, sale, and distribution of lubricants; and the supply of propane and other natural gas liquids.

The company also processes and sells crude oil into refined petroleum products under the Cenex brand name to member cooperatives and other independent retailers through a network of approximately 1,500 sites; and provides transportation services. In addition, it is involved in the purchase or resale of grains and oilseeds; and provision of seeds, crop nutrients, crop protection products, animal feed, animal health products, refined and renewable fuels, and propane, as well as refined oils, meal, soy flour, and processed sunflower products.

Further, the company produces and sells nitrogen-based products, including methanol, UAN and urea, and related products; and manufactures, packages, and distributes vegetable oil-based products, such as packaged frying oils, margarine, mayonnaise, salad dressings, sauces, and other food products. Additionally, it offers open account financing services; cooperative associations with various loans that meet commercial agriculture needs; loans to individual producers; commodity risk management services to agricultural producers and commercial agribusinesses; and property and casualty insurance products, surety bonds, safety resources, employment services, and group benefits to agribusiness, construction, energy, and processing industries. The company also engages in the wheat milling activities. CHS Inc. is headquartered in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.