Process engineer
Cargill · Breaux Bridge, LA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Process
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Certification
- Green Belt preferred
- Industry
- Food & beverage
- Posted
- 4 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level process role at Cargill (food & beverage) in Breaux Bridge, LA. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required · Green Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Green Belt
- Day to day
- relocation help
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How this role compares
Against 483 other live process postings in the US.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Typical $95k–$135k, from 195 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 49%
- ✓ Lean 33%
- ✓ Six Sigma 26%
- SPC 24%
- ✓ Team leadership 24%
- New product launch 24%
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Stands out: this posting asks for Green Belt, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Key Accountabilities
- ◆Collect and analyze moderately complex operational data and trends and develop 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 and schedule maintenance of plant systems using reliability models and predictive technologies.
- ◆Collaborate with internal technology and finance operations stakeholders to monitor and manage variable and fixed costs at the site.
- ◆Plan and monitor production shutdowns ensuring legal and preventive maintenance compliance of manufacturing equipment.
- ◆Partner with process engineers to analyze capital expenditures and moderately complex project designs to find more efficient, cost effective approaches to promote higher quality and reliable outcomes.
- ◆Serve as point of contact and interface with third party personnel to 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 benchmark practices and assist in the creation of strategies.
- ◆Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- ◆Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- ✓Minimum of two years of related work experience
- ✓Other minimum
qualifications
may apply
Preferred qualifications
- ✓Six sigma green belt certification
- ✓Experience with operations data and design programs and applications
- ✓Lean certification
- ✓Experience and skills leading moderately complex projects
- ✓Strong data analysis capabilities including continuous improvement experience or certifications
- ✓2 years of experience as process engineer
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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 Process Engineer II will apply process and project engineering techniques to improve moderately complex manufacturing processes and products. In this role, you will provide technical support, operations experience, continuous improvement techniques and project management skills and be a contributing member of a team on moderately complex issues related to the operational domain area. You will provide guidance and 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 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.
Position Information
- •Location: Breaux Bridge, Lousiana
- •Relocation assistance is provided for this role
- •Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7am to 4pm
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