Process engineer

Cargill•Breaux Bridge, LA

19d•Onsite

About The Position

Cargill’s Food Enterprise serves food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a range of ingredients and branded products. The Process Engineer II applies process and project engineering techniques to improve moderately complex manufacturing processes and products. The role contributes technical support, operational experience, continuous improvement techniques, and project management skills to moderately complex operational issues. The engineer helps improve process stability, capability, and availability while reducing variability and mitigating operational risks. The role supports cost and operating-efficiency targets while protecting people, communities, the environment, and assets and honoring business obligations. The position is located in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and relocation assistance is provided. The work schedule is Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
At least two years of related work experience.
Other minimum qualifications may apply.

Nice To Haves

Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
Experience with operations data and design programs and applications.
Lean certification.
Experience and skills leading moderately complex projects.
Strong data-analysis capabilities, including continuous-improvement experience or certifications.
Two years of experience as a process engineer.

Responsibilities

Collect and analyze operational data and trends; develop recommendations and plans to improve manufacturing equipment and process performance and reporting, including consistent monitoring and early-warning indicators.
Collaborate with maintenance leadership to plan and schedule plant-system maintenance using reliability models and predictive technologies.
Work with internal technology and finance operations stakeholders to monitor and manage site variable and fixed costs.
Plan and monitor production shutdowns to ensure legal and preventive-maintenance compliance for manufacturing equipment.
Partner with process engineers to analyze capital expenditures and project designs and identify more efficient, cost-effective approaches that promote quality and reliability.
Serve as a point of contact for third-party personnel, set priorities, monitor safety, and support improvement of their skills over time.
Partner with personnel from other departments and business areas to benchmark practices and assist in creating strategies.
Independently resolve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision and escalate more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Perform other duties as assigned.