Production Excellence Engineer II

Cargill • Blooming Prairie, MN

29d • $78,000 - $114,000

About The Position

The Production Excellence Engineer II 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge and application of safety principles and methodologies
• Lean six sigma and continuous improvement capabilities
• Experience creating complex tests and analysis
• Project management experience

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked
• Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level