Capital Project Engineer

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 Engineer II will focus on optimizing our interconnected components of a manufacturing system. We seek a professional who will develop and apply engineering standards and procedures, providing advice on issues within the engineering field. In this role, you will help coordinate plant location, personnel work flow and ergonomics, materials logistics, production process sequence and equipment layouts. (#LI-ES2 )

Key Accountabilities

• Lead or participate in the development of capital project scope, schedule, and budget while following project management deliverables and best practices.

• Colaborate on manufacturing plant and facilities engineers with facility planning and design.

• Responsible for conducting cost/inventory/production control and human factors studies to develop and implement plans for facility modifications and revise operating methods.

• Help analyze and develop solutions to engineering problems related to manufacturing equipment and systems, or the causes of component failures.

• Design and improve manufacturing processes, instruments and equipment, and testing manufactured products to maintain quality.

• Establish methods to maximize use of production facilities and personnel.

• 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 requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience leading capital projects

• Knowledge of SAP

• Mechanical, Chemical or Ag/Biosystems Engineering degree

• Ability and desire to work hands on in fast paced and technical plant environment

Position Information

•Position is based in NE - BLAIR - 650 INDUSTRIAL PARK DRIVE

•Relocation assistance is provided for this role

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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