Continuous Improvement Specialist
About The Position
Cargill is a family company that provides food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world safely, responsibly, and sustainably. This position is within Cargill’s Food Enterprise, which serves food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with ingredients and branded products across categories including poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa, and chocolate. The Continuous Improvement Specialist develops, implements, and sustains process improvement initiatives. The role conducts continuous improvement activities for multiple locations, focusing on projects with low to medium cost and risk and well-defined processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- At least 2 years of relevant work experience.
- Ability and willingness to work flexible hours and weekends based on business need.
Nice To Haves
- Lean Six Sigma.
- Food manufacturing experience.
- Root cause analysis experience.
- Experience managing cost savings projects.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior staff with updates on project objectives, performance measures, issues, and risks.
- Identify, monitor, and implement continuous improvement best practices.
- Develop and manage continuous improvement plans for low- to medium-cost and risk projects to achieve and sustain project goals.
- Conduct organizational readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization, and resource evaluation; execute continuous improvement strategies that meet business requirements.
- Solve moderately complex issues independently with minimal supervision, escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
