Engineering Placement Student

Cargills size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe responsible and sustainable way.

Cargill is a family company providing food ingredients agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials from eggs to edible oils salt to skincare feed to alternative fuel. Our 160000 colleagues operating in 70 countries make essential products that touch billions of lives each day.

Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

This position is in Cargills food and bioindustrialbusiness where manufacturers retailers and food service companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.

Location: We have placments in Manchester Liverpool Hull Worksop & York sites.

Start date:July 2027

Are you looking for a placement at the end of your second or third year and are you studying a Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering degree If so Cargill can offer you a superb opportunity to gain valuable work experience on our 13-month Undergraduate programme.

During your placement with Cargill you will spend your time in one of our sites in the UK.

You will be responsible for small projects from initial design to completion. This will involve justification of projects design liaise with contractors to obtain the best possible solution installation and finally commissioning. This could be anything from modification of pipe work to implementing changes in the process. You will participate in day-to-day manufacturing operations and this could include shift work.
The Engineering Placement programme is a great pathway to the EMEA MSC Graduate Program.

What you will be doing:
Comprehensive induction to Cargill including full safety training
Spend time working on-shift to learn our processes and support site production management
Play an active part in running our process and supporting our business
Support and lead small continuous improvement processes delivering improvements around safety food safety product yield and process efficiency
Be given direct responsibility for capital projects including the design installation and commissioning to help develop project management skills and responsibility for a future career
Responsible for running regular site project update meetings and maintaining budget information for all site projects on Cargills project monitoring software
Coordinate input from engineering disciplines and subject matter experts to ensure engineering designs meet the specific needs of the business
Learn soft skills that will be transferable in your future career
Gain an excellent working knowledge of unit operations learnt at university with hands on practical experience
Develop the ability to work with a variety of different colleagues in our operations i.e. operators supervisors supply chain finance health & safety and food quality.
Be involved in citizenship activities within our local communities

What we are looking for:
Currently studying for an undergraduate Chemical / Mechanical Engineering Degree (BEng. or MEng.) with an expected grade of 2:1 or above
Students that are able to take ownership want to gain hands on experience and are curious and passionate to learn as well as being a strong communicator
Good technical understanding of a process environment
Ability to learn to use new engineering and management software swiftly and proficiently
A strong interest in our business our industry and in particular the position you have applied for
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