Mining Full Time May 2024 - Multiple U.S. Locations

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to provide materials for a sustainable future, connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

Your Role:

 

Connect to meaningful work. Feed the world. Achieve your higher purpose.

From day one, you will be an integral part of the team. You will have the opportunity to build specific skills, knowledge and attitudes that will enable you to transition to various roles within Cargill. We pride ourselves on having one of the most diverse career trajectories in the industry. As a Mining Engineer, you will collaborate and build relationships with colleagues and clients who represent diverse work, culture and resolution styles. We look for people who want to grow, support, think and produce. You've got big plans. We can help you pursue them within the mining industry or throughout Cargill.

 

Mining Engineer Position:

Starting your career, you will work in one of our many production facilities located in communities across the United States. There, you will lead production or maintenance employees, project teams, contractors or technical operations teams executing on critical initiatives and projects in a fast-paced, production environment. Although business processes vary, the design of the Mining Engineer role is to provide appropriate exposure to the people management and technical aspects of engineering.

Your Work:

Our Mining Engineers support Cargill’s Salt business units that promote road safety for our customers throughout the US. Work both underground with engineers and crews on active projects and on surface supporting our people and infrastructure bringing road deicing salt to our customers Engineers will learn mining techniques such as surveying and mapping, environmental management, room and pillar mining operations, mineral processing, water management, materials handling, and mining safety best practices, Engineers will have the opportunity to work hand in hand with other team members on engineering work, and champion their own projects to leave a mark on our facilities.

The intent of the Mining Engineer role is to allow individuals to be exposed to the technical and management aspects of engineering, while beginning to develop an interest for longer term career aspirations. Our Engineers will start in an Operations Leadership or Maintenance & Reliability Engineering role. Mining Engineers may advance into roles leading people or focus on the technical aspects of engineering.

What lies ahead is a career path that could include any of the following areas:

Production Management Engineers

Lead people, process, and input/product in a plant environment. They will be involved in day-to-day direct supervision of operators and production activities and participate in daily production management meetings. Engineers will need to comprehend, coordinate, and lead all aspects of government regulations and Cargill compliance programs including environmental, health, safety, maintenance, and housekeeping. Production Management Engineers typically develop teams of production employees within the first two years of their careers and have responsibility for hiring, scheduling, motivating, and handling employee relation issues. You will also participate in process optimization, equipment and process reliability, and may lead capital projects.

Process/Project Engineers

Responsible for business case development, vendor selection, budget management, and project management responsibilities for major projects and improvements involving process optimization, safety, quality, infrastructure, and energy use. They have heavy involvement with various innovation processes, idea generation systems, and reliability centered design, and they help implement technical initiatives driven from global Process Development Groups, Centers of Excellence, and Research & Development.

Work Environment

• Engineers must be willing to work in an underground environment
• The plant environment is team-oriented, fast-paced, and hands-on
• Our environment will focus on Safety, Employee Engagement, Inclusion and Innovation
• This role requires the associate to learn about the business through performing critical tasks executed within the production environment and will involve physical activity in our food, and/or grain processing facilities. This generally requires a moderate amount of physical exertion on a fairly regular basis. The work may also involve other conditions or exposures (i.e. heat, cold, salt dust, etc.).

Program Benefits

• We offer relocation benefits to engineers who qualify (base