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Senior Plant Automation and Control Engineer

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Job ID 312044 Date posted 07/31/2025 Location : Charlotte, North Carolina

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill. 
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.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Plant Automation and Control Engineer will provide technical support and specialist knowledge for overall governance on standards, application, gaps, solutions and measurements to increase production quality, efficiency and volume for the business. In this role, you will contribute to improve activities related to automation engineering to enable projects and improve our capabilities by providing engineering support for the organization.

Key Accountabilities

  • Support the development of the most effective approach to identify, monitor and implement automation engineering and configuration per Cargill standards, policies, procedures and job aids.
  • Provide input to cross functional teams to select and implement tools and methodologies that will enable best practices.
  • Provide direct support and delivery of services for the organization.
  • Support providing leadership to the planning and implementation of automation engineering standards and deliverables in capital projects.
  • Execute the tactical development and delivery oversight of vision, direction and strategy for automation engineering.
  • Identify opportunities and bridge automation engineering gaps in applications by establishing auditing control mechanisms.
  • Propose and develop recommendations in areas of improvement and by implementing solutions to improve performance and identify acceptable risk tolerance.
  • 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
  • Onsite work is required, with eventual travel up to 10% to support another facility
  • Occasional on-call responsibility for nights/weekends

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of four years of related work experience
  • Rockwell (AB) PLC expertise
  • Other minimum qualifications may apply

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Lean six sigma
  • Project management and semi-continuous food or chemical process, safety management experience

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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