Description

Cargill's 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 160,000 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 Cargill's food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice 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.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Process Engineer will apply engineering techniques to improve complex manufacturing processes and products. In this role, you will provide technical support, operations experience, continuous improvement and project management skills and be a contributing member of a team on complex issues. This role will work across many operational areas at the Fort Dodge facility. You will provide insight to improve the stability, capability and availability of processes while reducing variability and mitigating risks in the operational area. You will provide insights to 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.

Key Accountabilities

• Collect and analyze complex operational data and trends and provide 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, recommend and schedule maintenance of complex plant systems using reliability models and predictive technologies.
• Partner with internal technology and finance operations stakeholders to monitor and manage variable and fixed costs at the site.
• Plan and monitor production shutdowns and ensure legal and preventive maintenance compliance of manufacturing equipment.
• Partner with capital engineers to analyze capital expenditures and complex project designs to find more efficient, cost- effective approaches and promote higher quality and reliable outcomes.
• Provide oversight to third party personnel and 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 recommend benchmark practices and create strategies.
• You will work under minimal supervision and independently handle complex issues while referring only the most complex issues to higher-level staff.
• Other duties as assigned

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of engineering subject matter
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Lean Certification
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
• Strong project management aptitude and experience
• Strong data analysis capabilities including continuous improvement experience or certifications
• Understanding of PI (data historian), MS Project, Statistical Software (Seeq, Minitab)
• Technical knowledge of wet or dry corn milling, ethanol production, corn sweeteners production

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet