Senior Mechanical Reliability 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 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.

Important Information

This position is on site and it can be performed from any of the below locations. The company does offer relocation support to any of those locations if required as well.

 

Fort Dodge, IA

Blair, NE

Eddyville, IA

 

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Mechanical Reliability Engineer will be a key leader on the maintenance and reliability management team for the discipline of reliability engineering. In this role, you will work with the reliability team to drive improvement of plant reliability and champion the defect elimination process. You will apply knowledge and experience to ensure continuous improvement to optimize the company’s physical assets and maintenance and reliability processes and strategies and be directly involved in the continued implementation and leadership of a progressive and integrated reliability centered maintenance and equipment reliability improvement process. This position will support some of our largest sites making food products out of corn. 

Key Accountabilities

• Deploy complex reliability excellence activities and identify and prioritize reliability engineering value creation opportunities.
• Ensure the implementation of the strategic development of asset reliability centered maintenance applications.
• Perform technical reviews of complex projects and collaborate with related areas on new equipment reliability specifications.
• Execute the identification and elimination of bad actors and the optimization of equipment availability.
• Participate in the development, design and installation of predictive maintenance programs and technology applications to identify and eliminate defects.
• Oversee the specific lubrication program to ensure refinement.
• Partner with and provide guidance to maintenance repairs and production in reliability related processes and the identification of critical spares.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field OR equivalent experience
• Proven knowledge in the application of reliability tools
• Knowledge in maintenance process management
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Ability to travel up to 10%

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified maintenance reliability professional or similar certification
• Training in predictive maintenance technologies
• Training and knowledge of management of the proactive maintenance model
• Experience in production, maintenance, or project management
• Experience leading teams OR driving results through teams.
• Lean Six sigma yellow or green belt certification.
• Understand the breakdown of equipment.
• Experience with SAP

 

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet