Production Excellence Engineer

cargill • Hutchinson, KS

13d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is in Cargill's Food Enterprise, which serves food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a comprehensive range of innovative ingredients and branded products, including poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa, and chocolate. The Production Excellence Engineer II will be responsible for delivering production excellence processes and management systems focused on driving operational performance and value creation across manufacturing plants. This role requires using knowledge to ensure alignment of key operational metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge and application of safety principles and methodologies
• Lean six sigma and continuous improvement capabilities
• Experience root cause analysis
• Project management experience
• Background in business acumen
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP), data systems, and performance metrics tracking
• Proven experience leading data-driven, cross-functional improvement projects with measurable business impact

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 and continuous improvement activities for a complex site.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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