Shift Leader

At Bunge, we connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. We are looking for a proactive and safety-focused Shift Leader to join our Bilbao plant and play a key role in ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality manufacturing operations.

Reporting to the Production Manager, the Shift Leader is responsible for overseeing and coordinating manufacturing operations during their shift, ensuring that production processes are executed according to established production, quality, food safety, environmental, and safety standards.

This is a hands-on operational leadership role combining process supervision, team coordination, troubleshooting, and operational decision-making across multiple plant areas.

Key Responsibilities

Production Operations & Process Control

• Monitor and control manufacturing processes to ensure compliance with operational parameters, quality standards, and food safety requirements.
• Oversee operations from raw material receipt through processing and controlled storage of finished products.
• Primarily operate from the Control Room, using plant monitoring and control systems to regulate key process parameters.
• Conduct regular field inspections and plant walkthroughs to verify operational performance, safety conditions, and process compliance.
• Take immediate corrective actions when deviations occur.

Extraction Operations

• Monitor extraction plant performance through control systems and visual inspections.
• Supervise auxiliary services and process support systems.
• Monitor water treatment requirements and process conditions.
• Ensure proper operation of extraction, distillation, degumming, and related facilities.
• Promote compliance with all safety requirements.

Preparation Operations

• Inspect preparation plant operations and equipment, monitor and adjust crushers and rollers and support cleaning and inspection activities.
• Verify correct operation of conveyor systems, screens, and ventilation equipment.
• Coordinate safe removal of blockages and process interruptions.

Utilities, Refinery & Biodiesel

• Supervise, coordinate, and control: Refinery operations, Boilers and utility systems, Cogeneration facilities, Wastewater treatment operations and Biodiesel production processes
• Ensure continuity, efficiency, and compliance of all supporting plant services.

Maintenance Coordination:

• Review maintenance work conditions and permit requirements. Coordinate maintenance activities with production priorities. Perform and support basic maintenance tasks when required. Ensure safe execution of maintenance interventions.

Inventory & Logistics: Coordinate unloading of raw materials and auxiliary materials, monitor stock levels in warehouses and storage tanks and support inventory accuracy and operational continuity.

Leadership & Safety

• Supervise and provide technical support to shift personnel ensuring compliance with food safety, environmental, quality, and occupational health & safety procedures.
• Drive a strong safety culture and ensure safe plant operation at all times.
• Understand and manage critical process stages and parameters to guarantee safe, high-quality production.

What We're Looking For

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in: Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Related technical disciplines

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Experience in continuous-process manufacturing environments, preferably within the food, oils, chemical, biofuel, or process industry sectors.
• Understanding of industrial process control systems and plant operations.
• Knowledge of quality, food safety, environmental, and health & safety standards.
• Ability to lead and coordinate teams in a shift-based environment.
• Strong troubleshooting and decision-making skills.
• Basic to intermediate English proficiency.
• Medical certificate of fitness for industrial work (where required).

Apply now and grow your career with Bunge in Bilbao.

• #LI-AS1

At Bunge (NYSE: BG), our purpose is to connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world. As a premier agribusiness solutions provider, our team of ~34,000 dedicated employees partner with farmers across the globe to move agricultural commodities from where they’re grown to where they’re needed—in faster, smarter, and more efficient ways. We are a world leader in grain origination, storage, distribution, oilseed processing and refining, offering a broad portfolio of plant-based oils, fats, and proteins. We work alongside our customers at both ends of the value chain to deliver quality products and develop tailored, innovative solutions that address evolving consumer needs. With 200+ years of experience and presence in over 50 countries, we are committed to strengthening global food security, advancing sustainability, and helping communities prosper where we operate. Bunge has its registered office in Geneva, Switzerland and its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Learn more at Bunge.com.

Every day our people exemplify these values, which represent Bunge at its core:

•    We Are One Team – Collaborative, Respectful, Inclusive
•    We Lead The Way – Agile, Empowered, Innovative
•    We Do What’s Right – Safety, Sustainability, With Integrity

If this sounds like you, join us!  We value and invest in people who believe in our purpose and are excited to live it every day – people who are #ProudtoBeBunge