Production Excellence Leader
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Production Excellence Engineer will provide technical expertise to contribute to the development of production excellence processes and management systems focused on driving operational performance and value add across manufacturing plants. In this role, you will use your knowledge to execute key operational processes to achieve identified metrics.
Key Accountabilities
- Oversee operations by analyzing and developing recommendations regarding failures and lost production, identify and implement solutions to improve the system, standard work and processes.
- Deploy technology solutions considering overall safety standards, food safety, quality, capacity, reliability, production excellence, continuous improvement, environmental and costs constraints.
- Implement and optimize production excellence processes and components.
- Lead and implement proactive maintenance and reliability, production excellence and continuous improvement activities for a less complex site or a single more complex department.
- Foster the alignment of local and departmental stakeholders including operations, environmental and supply chain.
- Asses organization readiness and implement process improvement processes and procedures.
- Oversee the execution of measurement processes and monitor progress to identify variances and needed corrections.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of four years of related work experience
Other minimum qualifications may apply
Preferred Qualifications
Ability to translate highly technical information across all levels of technical knowledge
Technical gap assessment and solution identification
Project management experience
Experience creating complex tests and analysis
Fluent in English and Dutch
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.
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