Water & Waste Water Expert - Food EMEA
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Water & Wastewater Expert provides technical leadership for water stewardship, water treatment and wastewater management across the Food EMEA manufacturing network. This role partners with production sites to improve resource efficiency, reduce operating costs and compliance risks, and strengthen long-term resilience against water stress, climate-related challenges and evolving regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will leverage deep technical expertise and strong stakeholder management skills to translate complex water and wastewater challenges into practical operational improvements and strategic investment opportunities. The position can be based at any Cargill location within the EMEA region and requires regular travel to manufacturing sites.
Key Accountabilities
- Develop the Food EMEA water and wastewater strategy and translate it into site-specific roadmaps, priorities and investment plans.
- Identify and implement opportunities to reduce freshwater consumption, water losses and water-related operating costs through benchmarking, metering, water reuse and process optimization.
- Partner with Process Technology teams to reduce water demand at source and identify practical opportunities for water reuse.
- Improve the capacity, reliability, energy efficiency and compliance performance of wastewater treatment systems.
- Provide technical expertise through troubleshooting, root cause analysis, technology selection and asset optimization.
- Assess water-related risks and develop mitigation plans for vulnerable locations.
- Support capital projects by defining requirements, reviewing designs and supporting commissioning activities.
- Establish technical standards, operating practices and performance indicators across the network.
- Build organizational capability through training, coaching and best-practice sharing.
- Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, EHS, Sustainability, Procurement, Finance and external partners to deliver business objectives.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Process Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum five years of experience with industrial water systems and wastewater treatment operations.
- Strong knowledge of water treatment and wastewater management, combined with solid problem-solving, project management and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Environmental, Chemical, Civil or Process Engineering.
- Experience in the food, ingredients, chemical or other process manufacturing industries.
- Experience developing improvement roadmaps and supporting capital projects from concept through commissioning.
- Experience with water reuse, membrane technologies, reverse osmosis, anaerobic and aerobic treatment systems, and other advanced treatment solutions.
- Knowledge of European water regulations, permitting processes and water stewardship frameworks.
- Experience with digital monitoring systems, process modelling, data analytics and performance dashboards.
- Additional European language skills.
- Experience supporting multiple manufacturing sites in an international environment.
- Ability and willingness to travel regularly throughout the EMEA region.
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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