Jobs at Agropur Cooperative

Leads a manufacturing business unit through continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives. Responsibilities include reducing waste and downtime, improving equipment reliability, monitoring KPIs, implementing Lean practices, coordinating production activities, and supporting capacity and process improvements. Leads Process and Maintenance Leads, influences frontline employees, promotes safety and quality, investigates complaints, manages corrective actions, and supports training and labor relations in a unionized environment.

Improves dairy production efficiency through advanced troubleshooting, process optimization, statistical analysis, SOP development, quality assurance, and corrective actions. The role supports cheese and whey processing, develops production and sanitation standards, coordinates customer production trials, manages product disposition and formulation updates in plant systems, and leads continuous improvement activities. It also ensures compliance with food safety, sanitation, quality, safety, waste management, and regulatory requirements.

Develops and maintains SOPs, training materials, technical curricula, and facility training programs for plant operations. Coordinates hands-on and classroom training, tracks employee progress and documentation, evaluates training effectiveness, and reports outcomes to management. Supports safety, quality, productivity, audit readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives through effective employee training.

Operate and sanitize packaging equipment (conveyors, spiral freezer, X-ray, sorters, tote and pallet systems), complete documentation and CIP, assist rework, troubleshoot machinery, perform quality and safety checks, and support training and continuous improvement in the packaging department on a day shift.

The Inventory Analyst supports supply chain execution by aligning S&OP plans with distribution center operations, monitoring inventory and service-level KPIs, and optimizing safety stock strategies across sites. The role collaborates with production planning, distribution, customer service, and demand planning teams; supports inventory coordinators through training and coverage; and represents the team in daily meetings. Strong analytical, communication, inventory-management, and reporting skills are required.

Responsible for maintenance, troubleshooting, optimization and reliability of industrial HVAC, glycol and utility systems. Assist in operation and maintenance of steam and ammonia refrigeration, perform preventive and corrective work, coordinate contractors, ensure regulatory and food-safety compliance, and support continuous improvement and technical training.

Lead enterprise non-technical learning programs by aligning learning investments to capability needs, managing vendor relationships and platforms, driving adoption and measurable impact, partnering with business and HR functions, overseeing L&D budget, and supervising staff to build a scalable learning ecosystem across a multi-site manufacturing environment.

Maintain, troubleshoot and optimize industrial HVAC, glycol and utility systems; support operation and maintenance of steam and ammonia refrigeration plant; perform preventive and corrective repairs; coordinate contractors, ensure regulatory and food-safety compliance, and contribute to reliability and continuous improvement projects.

Lead enterprise-wide commercial transformation initiatives: analyze and redesign processes, develop target-state visions and roadmaps, influence stakeholders, drive change management, advise senior leaders, and deliver measurable improvements in commercial performance and distribution operations.

Perform maintenance, troubleshooting and optimization of industrial HVAC, glycol and utility systems. Support operation and maintenance of steam boilers and ammonia refrigeration, coordinate contractors, ensure safety compliance (ammonia, pressure equipment) and food-safety standards, contribute to reliability and continuous improvement, and train/backup the thermal plant lead.

Coordinate and standardize plant training to ensure employees are qualified, safe, and effective. Assess learning needs, develop and update training materials (One Point Lessons, visual instructions, videos), maintain training records and the training matrix, support onboarding and trainers, develop assessment methods, digitize training tools, support safety, quality, and equipment-specific (bag filler) training, and monitor Workday training compliance.

The Early Career Program Specialist manages and enhances early-career talent programs, overseeing recruitment for internships and student jobs, while collaborating with stakeholders and institutions.

Student order picker responsible for picking, assembling, packing, labeling orders, inventory tracking, loading trailers, operating a forklift, and general material-handling tasks. Must meet shift and lifting requirements.

Design, implement, operate, and lifecycle-manage enterprise network security across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. Lead incident response, troubleshooting, change management, firewall and SD‑WAN deployments, cross-team project delivery, performance monitoring, compliance, and continuous improvement; participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.

Entry-level production role in a cheese/food plant: perform packaging, cleaning, sanitation, prepare work areas, transport materials and cheeses, and other related tasks. Must pass a math and mechanical reasoning test. Opportunities to progress to operator roles (milk processor, cheesemaker, packaging lead).

Lead and execute site-wide manufacturing training strategy, operationalize the Education & Training roadmap, develop structured procedures and programs, coach a local training team, deliver cross-functional training (Safety, Quality, Operations, Compliance), deploy digital learning tools, and measure and improve training effectiveness to support manufacturing excellence.

Provide whey protein nutrition and technical support for international markets, serving as a liaison between US technical teams and regional sales. Develop application prototypes, support customer visits and trade shows, create presentation and marketing content, run application testing and quality optimization, interpret experimental and commercial data, and identify business development opportunities for Agropur dairy ingredients.

Lead the Protein Applications Center and guide whey-derived ingredient product development. Manage and coach a product development team, collaborate with sales and marketing, support customer trials, and build academic partnerships to drive ingredient innovation and solve customer technical challenges.

Serve as enterprise subject matter expert for membrane separation (RO/UF/NF/MF) across dairy operations. Lead design reviews, set standards, support capital projects, troubleshoot and optimize membrane performance, evaluate emerging technologies, and drive adoption of membrane system standards and improvements across the network.

Serve as enterprise technical authority for drying and membrane systems in dairy processing. Lead design, optimization, troubleshooting, vendor selection, standards creation, and capital project support for spray and other industrial dryers. Drive best practices for hygienic design, powder hazard mitigation, energy efficiency, and product quality. Partner with R&D, Operations, and Engineering to evaluate emerging technologies and enable new product capabilities across the manufacturing network.