Jobs at Kemin Industries

Leads the swine business sales organization, including Key Account Management, Technical Service, and Marketing teams. Responsibilities include coaching and developing employees, creating regional sales strategies, managing key customer relationships, identifying growth opportunities, overseeing sales projects, analyzing performance data, and presenting recommendations to senior leadership. The remote role requires considerable travel within the assigned region.

Own strategic commercial relationships with major U.S. turkey producers and related industry stakeholders. Develop account plans, grow sales and margins, manage pipelines and forecasts, advance opportunities, and demonstrate customer ROI. Partner cross-functionally with technical service, marketing, product management, R&D, and operations to support trials, implementations, product development, and customer retention. Travel up to 60%, primarily domestically.

Manage sales and service for protein industry customers across the Upper Midwest. Responsibilities include achieving sales and margin targets, expanding territory business, identifying prospects, developing strategic customer plans, delivering technical presentations, closing sales, supporting product testing and implementation, maintaining customer relationships, forecasting for production and inventory planning, attending industry events, and mentoring account representatives. The role requires extensive travel and residence within the assigned territory.

Manage and grow designated key accounts in the feedmill market by developing sales plans, meeting quotas, expanding regional markets, and delivering tailored products and solutions. Responsibilities include distributor and pricing management, customer visits, business-needs assessment, internal resource coordination, technical support delivery, sales negotiations, and value-added solution development.

Leads integrated marketing communications for Kemin’s North America Animal Nutrition & Health business unit. Responsibilities include brand launches, brand governance, channel planning, content programs, SEO, social media, public relations, media strategy, analytics, budget management, and demand generation. Manages a small marketing communications team, develops talent, coordinates external agencies, and partners cross-functionally to improve customer engagement, lead quality, pipeline velocity, and business performance. The position is onsite in Des Moines, Iowa, with travel of up to 30%.

Manages regulatory clearance and registration for veterinary vaccines and biological products in assigned countries. Responsibilities include dossier preparation, regulatory authority relationships, monitoring regulatory changes, compliance documentation, importation and batch release support, GDP, pharmacovigilance implementation, intellectual property management, and cross-functional projects. The role also tracks regulatory strategies, deadlines, product documentation, labeling, and mock-ups while contributing to global regulatory alignment.

Defines Kemin’s enterprise data strategy, target architecture, standards, governance, and quality frameworks supporting analytics and AI. Provides architectural direction to IT data teams, establishes platform expectations, improves trust in fragmented enterprise data, and aligns business, Finance, Operations, and R&D stakeholders on priorities, sequencing, ROI, and data investments. Requires strong executive communication, influence without direct authority, and experience with modern data platforms and governance models.

Manages income tax, transfer pricing, TDS/TCS filings, tax provisions, reconciliations, audits, and statutory compliance. Reviews financial records, researches tax laws, monitors legislative changes, supports financial statement preparation, and collaborates with finance, legal, external advisors, tax authorities, and outside firms. Leads internal control and compliance activities across the company while ensuring adherence to applicable laws and the global code of conduct.

Conduct laboratory and field experiments under research-manager direction, support in-house animal trials and sample analysis, perform literature searches, identify research methods, and contribute to technical reports and presentations. Maintain accurate research records, protect confidential information, follow good laboratory and scientific practices, and comply with health and safety policies.

Manage export and logistics operations, including order booking, M3 ERP invoicing, e-invoicing, e-waybill creation, dispatch planning, stock transfers, shipment documentation, and coordination with sales, production, quality, warehouse, finance, purchasing, customers, transporters, and C&F partners. Maintain dispatch records, process sample requests, and update complaint registers.

Manage factory administrative operations, facilities, statutory compliance, security, housekeeping, employee transport, canteen services, welfare activities, vendors, budgets, and workforce scheduling. Oversee building infrastructure and BMS systems, including HVAC, electrical, fire safety, and access control. Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance, support emergency response, and collaborate with HR, Production, EHS, Finance, and maintenance teams to ensure uninterrupted plant operations.

Leads chemical process manufacturing operations, EHS compliance, maintenance, production planning, and continuous improvement. Oversees plant performance across production, quality, food safety, stores, administration, and maintenance while improving uptime, yield, productivity, and cost efficiency. Manages safety programs, incident investigations, equipment reliability, infrastructure systems, operational planning, and cross-functional team development. Requires an engineering degree and 15+ years of experience, including senior leadership in chemical process manufacturing.

The EHS Specialist delivers safety and environmental training, conducts audits, inspections, risk assessments, and incident investigations, and develops corrective actions. The role maintains compliance records, analyzes accident trends, supports EHS policies and reporting, and partners with production, maintenance, warehouse, and engineering teams. Responsibilities also include continuous improvement, emergency response, hazardous waste and stormwater support, employee safety programs, and daily engagement with production-floor personnel. Domestic travel is approximately 15%.

Processes and analyzes customer microbiological samples using aseptic, BSL-2, pour-plate, serial dilution, PCR, and mold and yeast detection techniques. Supports applied microbiology research, method development, SOP creation, protocol development, technical documentation, and timely reporting of results. Maintains sample chain of custody, reviews procedures, and collaborates with senior microbiologists in a laboratory environment.

Human Resources Interns complete a summer project, support HR team tasks, participate in meetings and internship events, collaborate across departments, identify process improvements, create standard work, and present project results to company leadership. The 10–12 week program includes mentorship, professional development, networking, and team-building activities.

Participate in a 10–12-week technical services internship focused on a project with operational impact. Responsibilities include supporting team tasks, contributing to meetings, coordinating across departments, identifying process improvements, creating standard work, attending training and networking events, and presenting project results to company leadership. Candidates must be enrolled in a Food Science or Bakery Science degree program and available for full-time summer employment.

Develop and maintain quality assurance systems for food and feed safety, conduct internal, external, vendor, and laboratory audits, train staff on GMP, FSMS, and QMS requirements, support process and product validation using SQC or SPC, investigate process failures, implement corrective actions, and facilitate management review meetings.

Ensures enterprise data accuracy, consistency, and reliability by defining data quality rules, translating business requirements into technical specifications, validating datasets, integrating checks into ETL workflows, monitoring quality dashboards, investigating root causes, and reporting trends. The role also supports data stewards and business users through training, documentation, coaching, and promotion of data governance best practices.

Leads food chemistry R&D strategy, new product development, formulation, ingredient interaction, shelf-life, sensory performance, and product improvement across Latin America. Manages multidisciplinary teams, ensures food safety and regulatory compliance, collaborates with Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, and Operations, monitors scientific and market trends, commercializes innovations, and mentors scientists and technologists.

Develop and assemble SMARTBOX control panels, manage inventory, and reduce customer installation lead times. Perform panel wiring, PLC I/O checks, signal testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, VFD configuration, instrument testing, and IoT field wiring. Interpret electrical schematics, GA drawings, and I/O diagrams; support CE compliance and panel audits; plan layouts and cable routing; and prepare test reports, wiring checklists, and technical documentation using Electrical CAD software.