Jobs at Kalmbach Feeds Inc.

Manage full-cycle recruiting for hourly operations roles across manufacturing, warehouse, transportation, and live production. Responsibilities include sourcing, screening, pipeline development, hiring-manager partnership, candidate communication, career-fair representation, onboarding coordination, ATS recordkeeping, and recruiting analysis. The role requires regular facility visits and strong relationship-building, organization, communication, and sourcing skills.

Engineering Intern supporting process improvement projects in a manufacturing environment. Responsibilities include cross-functional process analysis, data collection and reporting, troubleshooting, and assisting with initiatives across production, safety, maintenance, and quality. The intern will help implement improvements and complete assigned engineering tasks while communicating with staff and management.

Coordinates daily trucking routes, schedules freight loads, negotiates competitive carrier rates, and builds relationships with carriers and customers. The intern will work with LTL, FTL, and intermodal carriers while developing logistics and freight coordination skills in an agricultural business. Success requires strong communication, organization, attention to detail, critical thinking, professionalism, and teamwork in a fast-paced environment.

Manages daily office and facility administration at a pet food manufacturing site. Provides executive support through calendar, travel, meeting, presentation, and event coordination. Handles supplies, communications, invoices, expenses, purchase requisitions, vendors, onboarding, orientations, employee communications, filing, and confidential document control. Serves as a primary contact for visitors, employees, and vendors while supporting a welcoming and efficient workplace. Occasional travel to customer, supplier, certification, or industry sites may be required.

Marketing Intern supporting brand growth initiatives for Tribute and Kalmbach Feeds. Responsibilities include executing strategic projects, analyzing website, social, consumer, and industry data, developing consumer insights, creating short-form social content, and collaborating with internal teams and agencies. The role offers exposure to multiple marketing specialties and requires creativity, strategic thinking, project management, communication, and proficiency with Adobe tools, social platforms, video editing, and Microsoft Office.

Accounting Intern reporting to the VP of Finance and supporting journal entries, account reconciliations, financial reporting, analysis, and assigned accounting projects. The role offers practical experience working with accounting professionals and requires a strong academic foundation, analytical ability, communication skills, and attention to detail.

Provides customer support by answering calls, processing sales and purchase orders, performing accurate data entry, and coordinating with internal and external customers. The role requires strong communication, analytical thinking, organization, attention to detail, independence, and proficiency with Windows-based software. The schedule includes one Saturday per month, and the position requires commuting to the Upper Sandusky, Ohio corporate office.

Plans, designs, deploys, and supports infrastructure for new and existing multi-site facilities, including servers, virtualization, networks, cabling, wireless, UPS systems, security technologies, backups, and recovery. Coordinates construction teams, vendors, contractors, procurement, cybersecurity, and operations. Manages implementation plans, testing, documentation, lifecycle improvements, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and on-call infrastructure support.

Develop and grow a territory by acquiring customers, managing livestock producer and dealer relationships, meeting sales goals, and recommending feed and nutritional solutions. The role includes prospecting, negotiating contracts, providing technical support such as ration balancing, conducting market research, and collaborating with marketing and nutrition teams. Travel up to 30% is required, along with knowledge of livestock production and animal nutrition.

Plans and executes engineering capital projects, managing scope, budgets, schedules, forecasts, technical documentation, compliance, and supplier or contractor coordination. The role develops layouts, proposal drawings, and reports while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale projects supporting business growth.

Operate and improve hybrid Kubernetes infrastructure across on-premises data centers and Azure. Responsibilities include managing RKE2/Rancher and AKS clusters, troubleshooting networking and workloads, supporting servers and storage, implementing disaster recovery, responding to incidents, and improving observability, automation, IaC, CI/CD, and reliability practices. The role participates in on-call rotation and helps shape platform architecture, standards, and production technologies.

Generate daily invoices, research sales orders, invoices, and deliveries, and process credits and re-bills. Collaborate with Accounts Receivable, Customer Service, Sales, and Operations to resolve non-routine transactions, support customer satisfaction, and improve invoicing processes. The role requires strong organization, communication, investigation, follow-up, and problem-solving skills in an on-site corporate office environment.

Provides administrative support for the Customer Quality Assurance Response team. Responsibilities include responding to quality concerns by email and phone, investigating issues, coordinating follow-up across departments, documenting QARFs and Torn Bag Reports, processing product samples, answering quality-process questions, and reviewing or updating reports. The role requires strong attention to detail, urgency, timely communication, and sensitivity to customer and corporate needs.

Design, build, and operate greenfield business applications end-to-end: architecture, APIs, UX, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code while translating business processes into durable software.

Lead and develop an accounting team while performing hands-on accounting tasks: invoicing, cash application, payables, reconciliations, financial statement preparation, and process improvement projects. Partner across departments and ensure accurate daily cash posting, payment reconciliation, and invoice dispute resolution.

Source and purchase grain from area farmers for feed manufacturing. Build supplier relationships, negotiate contracts, manage and track positions and inventories, and collaborate with Nutrition, Sales, Pricing, Marketing, and Production. Use futures-market knowledge to develop contracting strategies and respond to market changes.