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Process Safey Engineer

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Job ID 323683 Date posted 03/10/2026 Location : Fort Morgan, Colorado Category  BUILD OPERATE MAINTAIN (PLANT OPNS) Job Status  Salaried Full Time

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 Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Process Safety Engineer will apply technical knowledge of process safety to deploy corporate standards to handle hazardous processes. In this role, you will help build process safety capabilities within the site, and work with the Utilities team and corresponding departments, to provide the technical knowledge and assistance to ensure consistent implementation of process safety standards. You will partner with our safety teams to participate in developing strategies to deploy, implement and sustain corporate process safety risk management standards and ensure prevention of serious process safety events.

Key Accountabilities

  • Provide technical, regulatory and strategic consultation, support and training on safety risk management requirements and tools to help local sites build a strong process safety risk management culture.
  • Develop and execute ongoing partner and change management processes, communication and educational activities across regions.
  • Use experienced knowledge to deliver guidance and training solutions related to process safety practices.
  • Collaborate with domain and technology teams to deploy technologies that can help achieve objectives and best practices in process safety.
  • Participate in the global process safety leadership team, evaluating and assessing the performance of the corporate process safety standards.
  • Track site process safety performance through internal auditing and measuring.
  • Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Attantion to detail and a safety-first mindset
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field; or equivalent experience,
  • Basic knowledge of the relevant site processes and their hazards
  • Experience in Microsoft
  • Minimum of 2 years of supervisory experience
  • Understanding of hazard analysis (HAZOP, What-If, LOPA)
  • Understanding of consequence analysis and risk calculations
  • Understanding of chemical process operatons and safety principles
  • Familiarity with industrial standards (e.g OSHA PSM, IIAR)
  • Competence in developing and implementing safety procedures

Preferred Qualifications

  • Certified process safety professional through an external professional organization.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

The expected salary for this position is $95,000-125,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance. 

At Cargill we put people first.  As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellnessto learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions) . 

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