Production Excellence 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 Production Excellence Engineer 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 and drive improvement projects.
Key Accountabilities
- 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.
- 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.
Position information:
- Relocation assistance will be provided for this position.
- This position is located in Mount Joy, PA
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of two years of related work experience
- Experience creating complex tests and analysis.
- Project management experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Manufacturing experience
- Knowledge and application of safety principles and methodologies
- Lean six sigma and continuous improvement capabilities.
- Experience in Power BI, Tableau or advance excel.
- Experience with data analysis and statistical tools such as Minitab.
- Experience with Operations Performance Gap Assessment
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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