Process Engineer

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures. Job Purpose and Impact You will have the unique opportunity to work at the heart of a rapidly growing in Cargill Bio Industrial plant. We’ve been reliably selecting, modifying and reacting various nature-based chemistries to create specific, innovative solutions for our industrial customers.

We draw on the whole Cargill portfolio of products and services to create solutions to help our customers increase performance, and lower costs – all in a responsible, sustainable manner.

The Process Engineer will apply process and project engineering techniques to improve moderately complex manufacturing processes and products. In this role, you will provide technical support, operations experience, continuous improvement techniques and project management skills and be a contributing member of a team on moderately complex issues related to the operational domain area. You will provide guidance and oversight of external third parties that are utilized at the site and improve the stability, capability and availability of processes while reducing variability and mitigating risks in the operational area.

You will enable the operational area to achieve variable and fixed cost and operating efficiency targets, while protecting our people, communities, the environment and assets and honor our business obligations.

This is a fully on-site position, Monday to Friday, during standard daytime hours.

Key Accountabilities
• Collect and analyze moderately complex operational data and trends and develop recommendations and plans to improve the performance and reporting process of manufacturing equipment and processes and ensure consistent monitoring and early warning indicators.
• Collaborate with maintenance leadership to plan and schedule maintenance of plant systems using reliability models and predictive technologies.
• Collaborate with internal technology and finance operations stakeholders to monitor and manage variable and fixed costs at the site.
• Plan and monitor production shutdowns ensuring legal and preventive maintenance compliance of manufacturing equipment.
• Partner with process engineers to analyze capital expenditures and moderately complex project designs to find more efficient, cost effective approaches to promote higher quality and reliable outcomes.
• Serve as point of contact and interface with third party personnel to set priorities, monitor safety and improve their skills over time.
• Partner with relevant personnel from other departments within the site or across the business to benchmark practices and assist in the creation of strategies.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience of performing process calculations, equipment sizing and development of P&IDs.
• Experience working in a Manufacturing environment in a Process/ Project Engineering position. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience with Green Belt, Lean or Six…