Manufacturing Technology Engineer
Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Manufacturing Technology Engineer will apply process and project engineering techniques to improve moderately complex manufacturing processes and products. In this role, you will provide technical support, operations experience, continuous improvement techniques and project management skills and be a contributing member of a team on moderately complex issues related to the operational domain area. You will provide guidance and oversight of external third parties that are utilized at the site and improve the stability, capability and availability of processes while reducing variability and mitigating risks in the operational area. You will enable the operational area to achieve variable and fixed cost and operating efficiency targets, while protecting our people, communities, the environment and assets and honor our business obligations.
Key Accountabilities
- Collect and analyze moderately complex operational data and trends and develop recommendations and plans to improve the performance and reporting process of manufacturing equipment and processes and ensure consistent monitoring and early warning indicators.
- Collaborate with maintenance leadership to plan and schedule maintenance of plant systems using reliability models and predictive technologies.
- Collaborate with internal technology and finance operations stakeholders to monitor and manage variable and fixed costs at the site.
- Plan and monitor production shutdowns ensuring legal and preventive maintenance compliance of manufacturing equipment.
- Partner with process engineers to analyze capital expenditures and moderately complex project designs to find more efficient, cost effective approaches to promote higher quality and reliable outcomes.
- Serve as point of contact and interface with third party personnel to set priorities, monitor safety and improve their skills over time.
- Partner with relevant personnel from other departments within the site or across the business to benchmark practices and assist in the creation of strategies.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of two years of related work experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Six sigma green belt certification
- Experience with operations data and design programs and applications
- Lean certification
- Experience and skills leading moderately complex projects
- Strong data analysis capabilities including continuous improvement experience or certifications
Position Information
Location: Hutchinson, KS
Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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