Jobs at Smithfield Foods

Leads plant engineering and maintenance operations, capital project execution, equipment reliability, preventive and predictive maintenance, TPM, safety compliance, KPI tracking, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Manages maintenance staff, develops resource plans, reduces downtime, optimizes production processes, and ensures facility performance and project delivery in a food manufacturing environment.

The Plant Cost Accountant supports plant and manufacturing finance through standard cost rollups, month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, operations reporting, BOM and routing maintenance, product cost integrity, GR/IR clearing, co-pack invoice processing, account mapping, and plant close activities. The role requires accounting expertise, strong analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail, communication abilities, and proficiency with Microsoft Office; SAP and food industry experience are preferred.

Operates and oversees grain elevator and office activities, including grain grading, inventory management, loading and unloading equipment, facility inspections, logistics scheduling, customer service, safety, and environmental compliance. Works with farmers, commercial customers, procurement, and buyers to manage grain contracts and movements. Requires seasonal extended hours, weekend and holiday work, physical activity including climbing and lifting up to 50 pounds, and exposure to heights, weather, dust, odors, noise, and moving machinery.

Oversee and improve Process Safety Management and Risk Management Program compliance at a manufacturing location. Develop strategies, track and report safety KPIs, resolve compliance issues, support ISO 45001 certification, and coordinate OSHA and emergency response training for production employees and management. The role requires regulatory expertise, strong communication, organizational skills, independent work, occasional travel, and flexibility for alternate shifts, weekends, long hours, and on-call coverage.

Performs physically demanding meat-processing tasks using hand tools, knives, machinery, and other equipment. Follows safety, quality, and production procedures while working around carcass parts, blood, odors, cleaning chemicals, noise, and varying temperatures. Requires repetitive movement, prolonged standing, bending, climbing, walking, and occasional heavy lifting. Employees must follow instructions, wear required PPE, work scheduled shifts, and may work overtime based on production needs.

Lead front-line production shifts to meet safety, USDA/HACCP, quality, and yield targets. Train, coach and supervise hourly employees, monitor efficiencies, perform floor inspections, manage equipment setup/maintenance, and drive continuous improvement to reduce downtime and costs.

Design, develop, troubleshoot, and maintain EDI integrations (IBM Sterling SCBN) and mFTP connections. Translate business requirements into integration designs, modernize legacy integrations, collaborate with integration and project teams, and ensure solutions meet security and compliance standards.

Support and maintain site EHS and environmental compliance programs (EMS, SIPS), assist ISO 14001/45001 certification, collect/analyze EHS KPIs, support PSM for ammonia refrigeration, deliver training, lead incident investigations, and coach employees to improve safety performance.

Manage full-cycle recruitment across multiple locations, partner with hiring managers, source and pipeline candidates, improve recruitment processes, track ATS metrics and compliance, analyze labor market trends, and provide an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience. Role includes ~25% travel.

Assess, design, and maintain cybersecurity controls for industrial control systems and enterprise environments. Conduct risk assessments, pen tests, and vulnerability remediation. Implement firewalls, IDPS, SIEM, WAF, cloud security (Azure/AWS), and endpoint/email protections. Support incident response, compliance with NIST/ISA/IEC standards, and provide training and guidance to cross-functional teams.

Design, implement, and support enterprise network and telecommunications systems (on-prem and cloud). Manage routing, switching, VPN/SD‑WAN, wireless, VoIP, monitoring, automation, security, capacity planning, documentation, vendor collaboration, and incident resolution. Provide on-site support and up to 25% travel.

Lead and manage the SAP Analytics team supporting Finance and Accounting. Oversee application support, integration, governance, incident response, reporting automation (PowerBI), and continuous improvement. Partner with stakeholders, apply project management to prioritize workstreams, and develop strategic annual plans while coaching and developing team members.

Lead analysis and optimization of SAP warehouse and logistics solutions. Capture requirements, support implementations and integrations, provide production support and training, drive process improvements, support reporting and testing, and coordinate project activities with stakeholders to ensure efficient supply chain operations.

Oversee Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management Program (RMP) at the plant, ensuring regulatory compliance. Develop and improve PSM processes, support ISO 45001 efforts, report KPIs, track and resolve PSM issues, and deliver OSHA-required training to production and management.

Design and govern enterprise application architecture, align software solutions with business goals, lead integration and scalability efforts, drive application portfolio rationalization, reduce technical debt, evaluate vendor platforms, enforce governance and security standards, and advise on platform and modernization decisions.

Lead strategy and delivery for enterprise web applications and SAP development, overseeing ABAP/Fiori work, integrations, governance, incident/change management, project portfolios, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment while driving modernization, automation, and team development.

Lead design, implementation, and optimization of endpoint, email, network, and cloud security controls. Monitor threats, investigate incidents across Windows, Linux, and cloud environments, perform log analytics and forensics, enforce secure cloud/virtualization practices, maintain SOPs, and collaborate with IT and operations to continuously improve security posture.

Serve as liaison between business users, IT, and vendors to gather requirements, support SAP integrations, drive process improvements, manage implementations and testing, create training and reports, provide application support, and coordinate project timelines to ensure system stability and business readiness.

Lead plant Environmental, Health & Safety programs ensuring OSHA, EPA and company compliance. Manage EMS/SIPS, PSM/RMP (ammonia), incident investigations, training, permits, audits, ISO 14001/45001 efforts, and safety performance metrics while coaching and developing EHS teams.

Perform hands-on production tasks on a meat processing line using hand tools, knives and machinery. Follow safety and quality procedures, work scheduled shifts (including nights), stand for long periods, perform repetitive motions, lift up to 60 lbs (with assistance as noted), and comply with PPE and sanitation requirements.