Operations Coordinator

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Operations Coordinator

Operations Coordinator (Waco, NE.)

Provides secretarial and administrative support to nonexecutive employees, small teams, or departments. Utilizes business software applications to prepare correspondence, reports, presentations, agendas, and minutes. Edits, proofs, and formats documents, ensuring high-quality production. Performs data entry and manage paper/electronic document filing and archiving. Schedules and coordinates meetings, diaries, and travel arrangements. Receives, screens, and relays telephone messages from internal and external sources. Maintains files, records, and calendars for efficient organization.

This Operation Coordinator supports Waco facility operations by coordinating inventory management, procurement, contractor/vendor engagement, and reactive maintenance work order planning. This role partners closely with technicians, production teams, leadership, and external partners to ensure parts availability, accurate SAP records, efficient work order execution, and minimized production downtime. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, collaborative, and either experienced in SAP/inventory management or willing to learn the system.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Operations Coordinator, are to:

• Provide secretarial and administrative support to nonexecutive employees, small teams, and departments, including preparing, editing, proofreading, and formatting correspondence, reports, presentations, agendas, and minutes using business software applications;
• Perform data entry and manage paper and electronic document filing and archiving, maintaining accurate records, files, and calendars for efficient organization;
• Schedule and coordinate meetings, diaries, and travel arrangements, and receive, screen, and relay telephone messages from internal and external sources;
• Assist staff in operational activities across your delegated area of expertise, including HSE, grower accounting, field operations, plant operations, human resources, accounts payable, procurement, and other areas defined by leadership;
• Participate in community outreach events representing the site and support site initiatives and Production System improvements;
• Enter and validate information in computer and data systems, support Production Orders and inventory management, and perform SAP data entry, including maintaining contract and grower vendor data and supporting inbound/outbound trucking fleet during Harvest operations;
• Assist with onboarding and offboarding of site employees, follow and communicate payroll policies, perform audits to ensure compliance, and support the site expense management program by helping employees complete expense reports;
• Understand the site accounts payable process, review and process freight payments and bulk shipments, schedule deliveries with some supervision, and complete payments to vendors to support smooth financial operations.
• Assist with payroll management, such as documenting exceptions, validation of time entered ADP and checking information.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED;
• Valid Driver's License (To be eligible to drive a company car, your driving record must meet guidelines based on the company's Risk Screening for Hiring Drivers - MVR will be reviewed as part of pre-employment screening.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years of relevant experience, or an AA/BS degree with no relevant experience;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Strong organization and prioritization skills with high attention to detail;
• Understanding of manufacturing and/or a strong desire to learn agriculture operations;
• Strong customer focus and ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
• Ability to rapidly connect and analyze data and to communicate complex analytical insights in a precise and actionable manner;
• Proficiency with business software applications and willingness to learn systems such as SAP and other site-specific tools.

Posting available until July 20, 2026

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $50,400.00 - $75,600.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant's location, market data/ranges, an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.

To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

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