Dairy Operations Analyst

1 week ago


Kansas City, Kansas, United States Dairy Farmers of America Full time
Rotational Operations Analyst

This role is part of the Experience program, a rotational program designed for graduates aspiring to a career in manufacturing. The program offers a unique opportunity to gain experience, education, and exposure to prepare individuals for a future role in manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Visit a DFA farm to gain basic dairy farming knowledge and experience
  • Meet with cross-functional experts to understand the business and the Cooperative
  • Work on various plant shifts to gain insight into the manufacturing process, opportunities, and challenges
  • Complete a manufacturing project using educational experience
  • Participate in review of production costs, rework meeting, and/or analytics
  • Participate in ideation, package design, problem-solving, etc., meetings
  • Utilize systems throughout rotation, including Power BI, Salesforce, PCM, genesis, trace gains, SharePoint, etc., to analyze data and produce metrics
  • Produce reports, provide analytics, and build capability around data analysis and critical thinking
  • Participate in a customer audit in plant (understanding of quality, regulatory etc.)
  • Prepare and send samples for customers. Understand how to maintain sample and raw material inventory
  • Participate in a customer call, such as a prospecting call or complaint resolution
  • Complete a continuous improvement (CI) project involving influence
  • Run dryer; understand science and methodology to spray drying, blending, etc.
  • Work on a new product project, commercialization and scale up
  • Prepare and present report on project results and next steps
  • Assist with new product scale-ups at manufacturing facilities and/or scale up at customer facility where product is used
  • Attend industry workshop training, such as cheese-making, spray drying, dry blending etc.
  • Complete OSHA, environmental, ECO lab, and IDFA training courses
  • Shadow Plant Supervisor, Plant Manager, and Director of Operations
  • Act in a supervisory role (once leadership training is complete)
  • Review disciplinary issues with operations leader
  • Deliver constructive feedback
  • Participate in the interview and selection process
  • Onboard new hires, including 30/60/90 day check ins
  • Coordinate staffing
  • Research new ingredient process technologies
  • Shadow the controls team and assist in conducting costing and data analysis
  • Troubleshoot quality issues in collaboration with food safety & quality team
  • Assist in the capital management process
  • Understand and utilize engineering standards
  • Work with manufacturing, maintenance and engineering leaders to improve plant reliability
  • Sit in on sales and operations planning (S&OP) and procurement meetings to understand how to schedule product, get bids, and interact with vendors

Rotations may be available at cheese, taste & flavor and dairy powders locations around the country.

The requirements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employee, but is not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Other duties may be assigned.



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