Assistant Plant Manager

Company: Darling International
Location: Tulsa
Posted on: May 23, 2025

Job Description:

Imagine using your leadership experience and mechanical skills to build a rewarding career with the potential to earn up to $89,000 annually, plus excellent benefits. This is your chance to join a recession-proof manufacturer that offers exceptional support and limitless opportunities for advancement.

Darling Ingredients is seeking an Assistant Plant Manager to join their team in the Tulsa, OK area.

If you have leadership experience in a production environment and mechanical skills, this is an opportunity you need to explore. Rendering Industry experience is a plus!

Why Join the Darling Team:

• Competitive Pay: Starting salary $80,000-89,000 annually depending on experience and qualifications.
• Great Benefits - medical, dental, vision, paid time off, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, and more!
  • Guaranteed contribution to your 401(k) account
  • Advancement opportunities - We are always looking for key players motivated to move up into higher level roles. Whether in the Collinsville facility, or worldwide at one of Darling Ingredients' 200+ facilities, the sky is the limit with your career at Darling.
  • Safety is #1: Darling Ingredients takes pride in ensuring top safety practices are followed throughout the facility. Duties and Responsibilities:
    • Maintains efficient and timely flow of all raw materials received.
    • Responsible for maintaining hourly schedules beginning to end.
    • Monitors performance of individuals to ensure that procedures are being held to highest standards.
    • Controls vendor pricing by comparing prices with value, service, and quality among competition.
    • Plans stock orders to minimize time and money spent on emergency ordering.
    • Responsible for the quality of all finished products and determines any reason for loss of quality.
    • Responsible for supervising job performance of maintenance and production personnel as well as all the maintenance duties of equipment and buildings that are used to process raw material.
    • Keeps all maintenance work and associated records up-to-date.
    • Responsible for being familiar with and observing all Company safety rules and regulations, recognizes safety as top Company priority and conducts regularly scheduled safety meetings.
    • Conducts investigation of accidents that occur within jurisdiction and makes recommendations to Plant Safety Committee.
    • All other duties as assigned.
      About the Company: We began as a family business in 1882 and have continued to grow into the world's leading innovative developer and producer of sustainable organic ingredients for a growing population. Headquartered in Irving, TX with regional offices in Cold Spring, KY and Des Moines, IA as well as production facilities across the U.S., we have over 15,000 employees across the globe. We repurpose and reuse rather than discarding what others might consider waste. We capture valuable ingredients and nutrients to help maximize what nature has to offer, providing components for a wide range of products that include pet food, fertilizer, and biofuel. Giving nature a second life is our second nature.
      
      Our greatest assets are our employees. Our inclusive global workforce and their wide variety of skills, abilities, experiences, and perspectives have been critical in helping us consistently deliver best-in-class results around the world. In order to attract and retain employees who share our values of integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship, we offer competitive pay, excellent benefits, stability, and opportunities for career growth.
      
      Darling Ingredients is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military service, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local law. Know Your Rights: If you would like more information, please click on the link and paste into your browser: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster
      
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