Griffin Industries Careers and Info

Griffin Industries Overview

Griffin Industries, although still operated by members of the founding family, is a subsidiary of Darling International, which is the second largest rendering company in North America. The company offers animal, bakery byproduct and grease recycling services for restaurants. The company collects waste and scraps from various restaurants, bakers, grocery stores and meat processing plants and recycles the materials into useful products including animal feed, tan leather, fertilizer, industrial oils and fats, alternative fuel for vehicles and solvents.

Griffin Industries, with its headquarter located in Cold Spring, Kentucky, was founded by Rosellen and John Griffin in 1943 and currently maintains 50 rendering plants, hide plants, blending plant, bakery plants, spent cooking oil plants, transfer stations bio diesel plants, as well as ships which use Gulf of Mexico ports.

Griffin Industries Job Information

Although Griffin industries company headquarters is located in Kentucky the company owns various businesses spread throughout 18 states including West Virginia, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and Kentucky.

Griffin industries employs more than 2, 500 people in various professions including accounting, administration, civil engineering, customer service, finance, human resources, information systems, marketing, mechanical engineering, sales, truck drivers, plant management, general labor and lab technicians.