Senior Manufacturing Technology Engineer

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose and Impact

 

The Manufacturing Technology Engineer will apply engineering techniques to improve complex manufacturing processes and products. In this role, you will provide technical support, operations experience, continuous improvement and project management skills and be a contributing member of a team on complex issues related to the operational domain area. You will provide 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 provide insights to 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 complex operational data and trends and provide 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, recommend and schedule maintenance of complex plant systems using reliability models and predictive technologies.
• Partner with internal technology and finance operations stakeholders to monitor and manage variable and fixed costs at the site.
• Plan and monitor production shutdowns and ensure legal and preventive maintenance compliance of manufacturing equipment.
• Partner with manufacturing technology engineers to analyze capital expenditures and complex project designs to find more efficient, cost effective approaches and promote higher quality and reliable outcomes.
• Provide oversight to third party personnel and 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 recommend benchmark practices and create strategies.
• You will work under minimal supervision and independently handle complex issues while referring only the most complex issues to higher-level staff. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

Position Information.

 

• This position is posted internally as well as externally. 
• Relocation assistance will be provided for this position.
• This position is located in Dayton, Ohio. 
• The work schedule is: Monday – Friday Typically from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM. There are also some events that might need to work on the weekends and on call. 

Qualifications

 

Minimum Qualifications

 

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field OR equivalent experience. 
• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of engineering subject matter. 
• Minimum of four years of related work experience.

 

Preferred Qualifications

 

• Experience with operations data and design programs and applications.
• Strong project management aptitude and experience.
• Strong data analysis capabilities including continuous improvement experience.
• Lean six sigma green belt certification. 

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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet