10 Cargill plant leaders
Plant Manager and Plant Manager - Reserve & Westwego, LA are among the current titles held by these Cargill plant leaders. A reader can learn how plant leaders run their sites at Cargill from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Amanda Jo Klott
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Cargill
Amanda Jo Klott has been Plant Manager at Cargill since February 2021, based in Bowling Green, Missouri, and the profile headline reads Livestock Feed Industry. Amanda Jo Klott was Feed Department Manager at Farmers Elevator & Exchange Company from 2018 to 2021, Feed Manager at Green Plains Inc. from 2017 to 2018 and Feed manager at Cargill from 2013 to 2017.
Ashley Wulbern
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Cargill
Ashley Wulbern has been Plant Manager at Cargill since July 2024, based in Kansas City, Kansas. At Cargill, Ashley Wulbern was also General Manager from 2021 to 2024, Assistant General Manager in 2021, Maintenance Manager from 2019 to 2021 and Assistant Maintenance Manager from 2018 to 2019.
Dan Pulis
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Cargill
Dan Pulis has been Plant Manager at Cargill since November 2018, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the profile headline reads Senior Director of Operations. At Cargill, Dan Pulis also held a Plant Manager row from 2017 to 2018 and was Food Safety/Quality and Plant Manager from 1998 to 2017.
Eric Koch
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Cargill
Eric Koch has been Plant Manager at Cargill since June 2024, and the profile headline reads Senior Director - Chicago Site Cargill Bioindustrial. At Cargill, Eric Koch was also Operations Manager from 2017 to 2024, Plant Manager Cargill Metals Supply Chain from 2014 to 2017 and Salt Packaging Facility Manager from 2012 to 2014.
Jace McGehee
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Cargill
Jace McGehee has been Plant Manager at Cargill since May 2024, with the role listed in Gilman, Illinois. At Cargill, Jace McGehee was also Production Supervisor from 2016 to 2024, held two more Production Supervisor rows from 2015 to 2016 and was a Production Supervisor Intern in 2014.
John Kimmel
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager - Reserve & Westwego, LA · Cargill
John Kimmel has been Plant Manager - Reserve & Westwego, LA at Cargill since August 2021, and the profile headline reads Senior Director- Center Gulf Operations at Cargill. At Cargill, John Kimmel was also Superintendent- Westwego, LA from 2016 to 2021, Plant Manager II - Tuscola, IL from 2014 to 2016 and Plant Manager II - Cincinnati, OH from 2011 to 2014.
Kaitlyn Heiman
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Cargill
Kaitlyn Heiman has been Plant Manager at Cargill since December 2024, based in Guntersville, Alabama. At Cargill, Kaitlyn Heiman was also Training Specialist from 2023 to 2024, Production excellence engineer from 2021 to 2023, maintenance and reliability leader from 2019 to 2021 and Process Engineer from 2017 to 2019.
Keenan Schumacher
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Cargill
Keenan Schumacher has been Plant Manager at Cargill since September 2019, based in Bettendorf, Iowa, and also lists a Plant Manager row at Cargill from 2013 to 2019. Keenan Schumacher describes leading Cargill's daily grain elevator activities as Plant Manager.
Lee Chutas
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Cargill
Lee Chutas has been Plant Manager at Cargill since August 2022, based in North Canton, Ohio. At Cargill, Lee Chutas was also Continuous Improvement Lead from 2018 to 2022, Production Superintendent from 2016 to 2018, Maintenance Superintendent from 2012 to 2016 and Energy Engineer C.E.M. from 2009 to 2012.
Travis Williams
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Cargill
Travis Williams has been Plant Manager at Cargill since March 2021, based in Dundas, Minnesota, and the profile headline reads Director, Plant Operations. Travis Williams was Site Manager at PepsiCo from 2017 to 2021 and Continuous Improvement Manager at TreeHouse Foods from 2016 to 2017.
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Match the person's own plant and the work they describe there to your question, since running one kind of plant can look very different from running another. Weigh how recently each person took the role, because someone new to a plant and someone who has led it for years will describe different challenges.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you focus on first when you took over your plant?
- 02How do you split your own time between the floor and the people you report to?
- 03What from the roles you held inside a plant before leading one still shapes how you run it?
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