Process Engineer

Cargill•Hammond, IN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Process Engineer works in Cargill’s Food Enterprise, which serves food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with ingredients and branded products. The role focuses on optimizing interconnected components of a manufacturing system by developing and applying engineering standards and procedures, advising on engineering issues, and improving process stability, capability, and availability. The engineer helps reduce variability and operational risks, achieve variable and fixed cost and operating efficiency targets, and protect people, communities, the environment, and company assets.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Minimum of two years of related work experience.

Nice To Haves

Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Project management aptitude and problem-solving experience.
Comprehensive knowledge of engineering subject matter.

Responsibilities

Collect and analyze operational data and trends, and develop recommendations and plans to improve manufacturing equipment and process performance and reporting.
Ensure consistent monitoring of manufacturing equipment and processes and establish early warning indicators.
Help plan and schedule plant system maintenance using reliability models and predictive technologies in collaboration with maintenance leadership.
Monitor and manage site variable and fixed costs in collaboration with internal technology and finance operations stakeholders.
Help plan and monitor production shutdowns, ensuring legal and preventive maintenance compliance for manufacturing equipment.
Help process engineers analyze capital expenditures and project designs to identify more efficient and cost-effective approaches that promote higher-quality, reliable outcomes.
Serve as a point of contact and interface with third-party personnel to help set priorities, monitor safety, and improve their skills over time.
Connect with relevant personnel at the site and across the business to benchmark practices and assist in creating strategies.
Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision and escalate more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Perform other duties as assigned.