Production Excellence 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 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 Production Excellence Engineer will be responsible to deliver production excellence processes and management systems focused on driving operational performance and value creation across manufacturing plants. In this role, you will use your knowledge to ensure alignment of key operational metrics.
Key Accountabilities
- Partner collaboratively with operations to analyze and develop recommendations regarding failures and lost production and identify and implement solutions to improve the system, standard work and processes.
- Implement and audit leading operational practices and purposefully raise performance by monitoring key performance indicators.
- Responsible for leveraging the most effective approach to identify, monitor, and where applicable, implement continuous improvement and best practices initiatives.
- Manage and implement proactive maintenance and reliability activities, production excellence activities and continuous improvement activities for a less complex site or a single more complex department.
- Lead local and departmental alignment of stakeholders including operations, environmental and supply chain.
- Implement technology transfer packages to locations including plant trial execution and local plant trial plans.
- Partner collaboratively with cross functional regional leaders to leverage resources, knowledge and strategies that increase value captured throughout the portfolio of production excellence projects.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of two years of related work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge and application of safety principles and methodologies
- Lean six sigma and continuous improvement capabilities
- Experience creating complex tests and analysis
- Project management experience
- Power Platform Experience (SharePoint, Teams, PowerApps, PowerBi, PowerAutomate)
Position Details
- This position is posted both internally and externally.
- Position is based in St Clair, MI
- Relocation assistance will be provided for this role
- Schedule: 1st shift - 7am- 4pm On- site Position
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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