Job Type
Full-Time
Job Function
Operations
Description
Job Purpose and ImpactThe Production Excellence Engineer II will be responsible to deliver production excellence processes and management systems focused on driving operational performance and value creation across manufacturing plants. In this role, you will use your knowledge to ensure alignment of key operational metrics.
Key Accountabilities
- As the PPM(Product and Process Management) process owner, represent the plant in collaboration with R&D, Business, Technical Service, and other functions to carry out work including new product development, maintenance and upgrades of existing products, formulation adjustments and testing, production parameter optimization, and handling customer complaints.
- 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 less complex site or a single more complex department.
- 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.
- 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
- Other minimum qualifications may apply
Preferred Qualifications
- Less than 3 years of work experience related to edible oil Production/ Technical Service /R&D/Food Safety Quality Regulation
- Fluent in English reading and writing
- Knowledge and application of safety principles and methodologies
- Lean six sigma and continuous improvement capabilities
- Experience creating complex tests and analysis
- Project management experience
- SAP experience
Job ID: 81786691
At Cargill, everything begins with our purpose to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Customers choose us for our world of expertise, delivered locally, quickly and reliably in a way that creates value together for them and us. Every day, we connect customers and suppliers to the world by developing personal relationships and setting the standard high on the way we work. When you join our team, you’ll discover that our diverse businesses and products span a wide range of industries, geographies and ...
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