Jobs at Valmont Industries, Inc.

Leads irrigation manufacturing operations across safety, quality, production, shipping, receiving, scheduling, maintenance, and lean initiatives. Manages staffing, training, employee development, expenses, compliance, reporting, and continuous improvement for a shift with up to 60 direct reports. Uses operational metrics and analytical reports to improve plant performance, ensures production goals are met, and coaches personnel to achieve safety, quality, productivity, and service objectives.

Inspects materials and quantities, prepares products for shipment by bundling, crating, boxing, wrapping, and loading trucks. Uses hand tools, measuring instruments, shop drawings, and prints while following safety, quality, and work instructions. Works independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, including outdoor and non-temperature-controlled conditions. Requires a high school diploma or GED, basic arithmetic, measurement skills, and at least one year of manufacturing experience.

Manage strategic customer relationships and territory sales for road safety barrier products. Responsibilities include account planning, sales and profitability targets, solution development, coordination with engineering and supply chain teams, identifying new business, contract and tender negotiation, and executing national customer strategies. The role requires experience with civil contractors, government sectors, road authorities, complex account portfolios, and senior-level relationship building.

Manages daily transportation operations, including order intake, shipment scheduling, tracking, tracing, documentation, and status communication. Coordinates with carriers, customers, suppliers, manufacturing sites, and internal departments to resolve transportation issues and discrepancies. Generates reports, audits shipment information, prepares bills of lading and customs documents, and maintains accurate records while delivering responsive customer and carrier service.

Operates sandblasting equipment to abrade structural steel, transmission poles, and cellular towers. Loads abrasive materials, regulates equipment pressure, directs blasting nozzles, interprets blueprints, lays out blasting areas, and inspects finished parts for compliance. The role requires at least six months of metal-production sand or shot blasting experience, knowledge of coating preparation and EPA containment requirements, and the ability to work in noisy, hot conditions while performing physically demanding tasks.

Develops and oversees sales enablement resources, training, content, technology adoption, forecasting, customer analysis, and performance reporting for a coatings sales team. Builds playbooks, supports sales representatives, manages large multi-plant projects, tracks RFQs and KPIs, identifies conversion barriers, and partners with marketing and operations. Participates in national and regional events, conferences, customer education, and sales training. Requires national and Canadian travel of approximately 25%.

Partners with International Infrastructure leaders to translate business needs into IT strategies, roadmaps, and technology-enabled solutions. Leads medium- to large-scale programs, ERP and digital platform deployments, application standardization, budgets, vendors, and benefits realization. Supports data, profitability, operations, engineering, and S&OP initiatives while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture. Manages and develops teams, builds business cases, and collaborates across global regions and delivery organizations.

Leads weekend-night production operations on the shop floor, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance. Coaches and develops employees, enforces PPE and company policies, manages production standards, conducts quality checks and process audits, supports root-cause analysis and continuous improvement, coordinates equipment maintenance, and assists with staffing and cross-training. The role requires strong leadership, blueprint interpretation, manufacturing knowledge, computer proficiency, and the ability to work fully on-site in a physically demanding production environment.

Mechanical Engineering Intern supporting design and development projects within Valmont’s Global Agriculture division. Responsibilities include modifying existing products, contributing to new product designs, participating in design reviews, coordinating laboratory and field testing, supporting manufacturability and cost reduction efforts, and providing technical support. The role is onsite in Valley, Nebraska, includes professional development activities, and may require up to 10% domestic travel.

Manages site environmental, health, and safety programs, including risk assessments, incident investigations, regulatory compliance, environmental permits, waste storage, training, inspections, and safety committee engagement. Serves as the site EHS information-system expert, tracks incidents and hazards, develops annual objectives, coordinates corrective actions, and acts as the initial contact for environmental and safety regulators.

Leads the enterprise AI Engineering function, managing technical teams and delivering secure, scalable AI and Generative AI solutions. Responsibilities include setting AI roadmaps and engineering standards, implementing ML Ops and governance, developing RAG and agent architectures, deploying production AI applications, and partnering with business, data, manufacturing, supply chain, cybersecurity, and IT stakeholders. The role also drives responsible AI adoption, monitoring, reusable AI services, and measurable operational improvements.

Leads manufacturing operations for assigned departments, overseeing safety, quality, scheduling, equipment, costs, production capacity, continuous improvement, and employee relations. Supervises front-line leaders and a large indirect workforce, executes production schedules, develops operational strategies, and drives Lean process improvements. Requires substantial manufacturing management experience, budgeting and cost-control expertise, strong leadership, and proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Generates and controls customer invoices and credit memos by reviewing shipping documents, reconciling sales, validating freight and quantities, and resolving invoicing discrepancies. Maintains controls to ensure all shipped goods are invoiced, processes invoice acknowledgements, produces reports, and supports paperless workflows. The role requires detailed transaction processing, accounting knowledge, data analysis, cross-functional communication, and overtime during month-end periods.

Drives regional continuous improvement across manufacturing and administrative sites through Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, VSM, PDCA, DMAIC, and related methodologies. Coaches leaders and teams, facilitates improvement events, removes workflow barriers, tracks performance metrics, and leads cross-functional projects that reduce waste, variation, and costs. Partners with operations leadership to develop the regional CI roadmap, strengthen problem-solving capabilities, and sustain a culture of operational excellence. The role is remote but requires frequent domestic travel and proximity to a major airport.

Own AI-driven software solutions end to end, from requirements discovery and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and support. Build cloud-native backends in Python, modern Angular or React frontends, and Azure infrastructure. Integrate data science models and AI agents into production systems, analyze business processes, lead validation and testing, provide documentation and technical support, and perform project planning and estimation.

Sells organizational products and services to business customers by managing established accounts and developing new prospects. Requires sales experience and broad knowledge of company policies, products, and services. This intermediate-level role supports customer relationship development and revenue growth across the western region.

Provides comprehensive HR support at a manufacturing site, focusing on employee relations, full-cycle recruiting, onboarding, performance management, workplace investigations, compliance, HRIS data integrity, engagement, compensation, benefits, and training. Partners with site leaders and employees, advises managers, supports HR initiatives and change management, analyzes workforce metrics, and maintains employment-law compliance. Requires occasional domestic travel and interaction with manufacturing areas.

Oversee accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, controls, inventory valuation, working capital, audits, and monthly close activities for two manufacturing plants. The Site Controller ensures US GAAP and SOX compliance, analyzes operational and financial performance, manages variances and forecasts, supports plant leadership, and supervises one accounting associate. The role requires up to 10% domestic travel.

Leads Valmont’s global cybersecurity program across security operations, engineering, architecture, IAM, application security, incident response, cloud, enterprise systems, and operational technology. Develops strategy, policies, security controls, metrics, budgets, and organizational capabilities while advising executives and partnering with technology, manufacturing, legal, audit, and business teams. Oversees cyber incident response, resilience, Zero Trust, secure architecture, awareness, vendor relationships, and a geographically distributed cybersecurity organization.

Provides comprehensive HR support to assigned manufacturing operations, including employee relations, investigations, compliance, recruiting, onboarding, performance management, compensation and benefits, training, HRIS administration, reporting, and organizational change. Partners with managers and employees to implement HR initiatives, resolve workplace issues, maintain employment-law compliance, support engagement and retention, and deliver HR programs and processes. The role is office-based at a manufacturing site and may require occasional work outside normal business hours.