Jobs at Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Lead a 24-hour cheese and cultured products production operation, driving safety, quality, service, and cost goals. Manage ~80 employees via supervisors, oversee production planning, compliance (food safety/GMP/HACCP), continuous improvement, budgeting, audits, and cross-functional coordination. Coach leaders, resolve operational issues, and support capital projects to improve productivity and product quality.

Lead and develop a production team (supervisors and hourly associates) to drive safety, employee engagement, operational efficiency, project delivery, and cross-functional communication. Implement short- and long-term plant strategies, diagnose inefficiencies, and support customer/ dealer interactions.

Lead medium-to-large HR initiatives end-to-end: define scope and success measures, create project plans and governance, manage stakeholders, risks, testing, training, and change adoption, maintain portfolio reporting and product/service catalog, provide PM consultation, and develop PM tools and training to build capability across HR.

Lead process technology R&D for dairy foods, focusing on scale-up, process design, technical problem solving, and innovation. Serve as a working manager (20% people management, 80% technical leadership), mentor team members, run medium-to-high complexity projects, apply engineering fundamentals, statistics, and modeling, and collaborate cross-functionally to implement commercial designs and improve processes.

The Senior Sales Representative will manage relationships for crop nutrient sales, optimize margins, execute strategies, and drive growth for assigned accounts.

Operate and maintain fresh cheese production and packaging equipment on 2nd shift, perform boxing, filling, packing, cleaning, follow GMPs, safety and quality procedures, troubleshoot basic mechanical issues, and communicate progress to supervisors.

Territory sales role supporting calf producers in the PNW. Coach and develop dealer/cooperative sales members, grow feed and technology sales, build strategic customer relationships, execute on-farm training, and meet sales and budget targets with regular travel.

Design, build, and operate the internal developer experience and GitHub Enterprise platform. Deliver self-service IaC, golden-path CI/CD templates with security guardrails, AI-assisted developer tooling, and platform metrics. Partner across engineering, security, and infrastructure to improve developer productivity, reliability, scalability, and cost.

Operate manufacturing equipment to formulate and package plant protection and nutrition products. Follow safety and SOPs, meet quality standards, maintain work area, collaborate with leads, and perform physical tasks including lifting and wearing PPE.

Coordinate and expedite outgoing orders at a distribution center: confirm customer orders, prepare bills of lading and shipping documents, create and monitor labels and shipment data, schedule pickups, communicate shipment updates, maintain records, assist production and inventory labeling, and promote safety and quality culture.

Drive feed sales in Northwest Iowa by coaching dealers and cooperatives, developing sales strategies, and building customer relationships. Promote Purina feed programs and technologies, conduct prospecting and on-farm support, manage budgets and reporting, and travel up to 40% to meet sales targets and grow market share in livestock nutrition (cattle-focused).

Manage Land O'Lakes Dairy Foods relationship and execution with Albertsons West divisions. Drive sales volume, promotional planning, pricing, trade spending, and market share using data (Power BI, Circana) while collaborating with cross-functional teams and maintaining customer systems (Salesforce, APP).

Lead cost accounting activities including journal entries, reconciliations, inventory resolution, standard costing updates, variance analysis, and month-end close. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to resolve costing, freight, and cycle count issues and ensure accurate COGS and gross margin reporting.

Lead market development analysis for advanced biofuels, own workstreams, build financial and strategic models, synthesize market insights, and partner with business stakeholders to inform corporate strategy.

Process product payments, maintain product costing and inventory records for leased and owned warehouses, prepare month-end reconciliations, manage warehouse contracts and payments, support cross-functional issue resolution, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead strategy, operations, and P&L for EPL Feed's two mills: oversee production, ingredient procurement, feed formulation, fleet logistics, nutrition services, quality/regulatory compliance, sales growth, team leadership, and community/stakeholder relations.

Create and evaluate feed and seed labels to ensure compliance with FDA, AAFCO, USDA, state and company requirements. Manage seed labeling projects, review pre-printed packaging, maintain documentation, and work cross-functionally with R&D, formulation, facilities and other teams to ensure label accuracy.

The Operations Manager oversees production management, ensuring efficiency, compliance with standards, and leading supervisory staff to meet performance and safety targets.

As a Senior Technical Services Manager, you will lead technical services in cheese processing, improve operations, drive innovation, and manage projects and staff for process control.

Operate manufacturing equipment and perform front-line production tasks to convert raw materials into finished crop protection and plant nutrition products. Follow safety procedures, SOPs and quality standards, maintain work area cleanliness, assist with packaging, lift up to 50 lbs, and collaborate with leads and management in a fast-paced environment.