Continuous Improvement Specialist
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Continuous Improvement Specialist role involves leading and managing the plant’s CI roadmap while building a portfolio of cost-saving projects, as well as tracking, analyzing, and reporting monthly performance KPIs. It also requires facilitating RCA workshops and driving Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, while improving process stability and reducing variability in critical parameters. In addition, the position focuses on coaching teams to make data-driven decisions, ensuring accountability in improvement actions, supporting SOP standardization, and enhancing cross-shift communication, all in close partnership with Maintenance, Quality, and Production teams to eliminate losses.
This role is responsible for driving cost-reduction projects, improving process stability, enhancing operational discipline, and embedding a sustainable continuous improvement culture aligned with business strategy. You will will lead, develop, implement and sustain process improvement, productivity enhancement initiatives and strengthen performance management across the plant.
Key Accountabilities
- Directly provide updates on the project objectives, performance measures, issues and risks to senior staff.
- Identify, monitor, and implement continuous improvement best practices.
- Conduct organization readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization, resource evaluation and execute continuous improvement strategies that meet business requirements.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical or related field)
- 3 to 6 years of experience in manufacturing / operational excellence roles
- Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools
- Experience in performance management and KPI systems
- Advanced data analysis skills (Power BI, Excel; Minitab)
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills
- Change management capability and structured problem solving skills
- Strong communication and influence skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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