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Manufacturing Technology Senior Engineer

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Job ID 319545 Date posted 12/17/2025 Location : Wayzata, Minnesota 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 Manufacturing Technology Senior Engineer will provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise in the Solar and Evaporation manufacturing technology areas to support the salt manufacturing facilities. This role will help optimize the performance of existing assets by partnering with the site operations and engineering teams and other functions. In this role, you will work to drive efficient and safe performance of each unit operation including process capabilities, performance monitoring, process improvements and support the training and development for the salt manufacturing technologies.

Key Accountabilities

  • Assess technical performance of assets to identify gaps and solutions.
  • Provide oversight into the implementation of improvement projects, plans, techniques, tools and quality standards across sites.
  • Provide guidance to technical design of systems and projects within the solar and evaporation manufacturing technology domains.
  • Provide manufacturing technology expertise to plants, working with local teams, manufacturing technology strategy and governance teams, other subject matter experts, external experts and technical support to identify and resolve root causes to emerging issues.
  • Provide leadership in administering and support the creation of related standards for plants in alignment with manufacturing technology systems.
  • Leading management of complex technical issues.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Project or initiative management experience
  • Experience in multiple domains such as engineering, production, reliability and capital excellence, research and development and operations management
  • 3 years of experience with related solar or evaporation manufacturing technology

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience with related solar or evaporation manufacturing technology
  • Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent 
  • Experience working in operations within chemical, food or processing environments 
  • Proficient in data analysis and analytics
  • Ability to be located at a salt production facility  

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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