Process Engineer

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 will serve as the site technical knowledge holder for manufacturing processes, production technology and product/process interaction. The role will improve process stability, capability and cost performance while supporting the industrialization and scale-up of new products and processes. Through data analysis, structured problem solving, trials and cross-functional collaboration, the Process Engineer will convert operational and business opportunities into safe, stable and scalable production solutions. The role is based at the primary site and provides process engineering expertise and technical support to a second site in Belgium on a request or business requirement basis.

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 and process capability.
• Apply Lean Six Sigma, structured problem solving and root cause analysis to identify, prioritize, implement and verify continuous improvement and best practice initiatives.
• Partner with maintenance on process-related reliability activities and implement production excellence and continuous improvement activities.
• Serve as the technical knowledge holder for manufacturing processes, production technology and product/process interaction, supporting process development, product industrialization, scale-up and operational readiness, and provide technical expertise and support to a second manufacturing site in Belgium on a request or business requirement basis.
• Implement new product development, including trial preparation and execution, scale-up, process validation, operational readiness and handover into standard production.
• Partner collaboratively with cross-functional site and regional stakeholders, including operations, R&D, quality and commercial teams, to leverage resources, transfer knowledge and increase value captured throughout the portfolio of production excellence projects.
• Independently solve complex process, quality and operational issues using technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, process engineering, food technology, food engineering or a related technical field
• Minimum of two years of related work experience
• Fluent Dutch and strong professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• French language proficiency is an advantage
• Experience in process engineering within food, chocolate, confectionery, packaging or another continuous or semi-continuous manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of product/process interaction, process scale-up, industrial trials and technology transfer
• Lean Six Sigma, structured problem solving and root cause analysis capabilities
• Experience analyzing manufacturing data and improving process capability, yield, waste, downtime and variable cost
• Project management experience, including cross-functional improvement or industrialization projects
• Experience with automation or manufacturing technology improvement projects
• Knowledge of food safety, quality and management of change principles

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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