Position summary

Cargill is seeking a Natural Resource Efficiency Engineer to turn technology into business advantage and improve its manufacturing processes and products. In this role you will provide direction for design standards, process capabilities, hazard analysis, performance monitoring, technical training, and significant improvements for business processes, working directly with local operations teams to execute manufacturing technology roadmaps and improvement plans. The role sits within Cargill’s Ag & Trading enterprise and can be based at any European Cargill office.

Why this role matters

Cargill sits at the heart of the food and agriculture supply chain, and improving the efficiency of its manufacturing processes is central to creating sustained value and reducing resource use and emissions. This role brings the technical expertise, from heat integration to GHG-reduction technologies, that drives those improvements across the plant estate.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor performance and find opportunities by analyzing KPIs, manufacturing cost reports, and stable operations activities to create year-on-year sustained value.
• Support capital projects by participating in project justification and gate reviews, preliminary design, and technical oversight during installation and startup.
• Lead risk assessments by participating in process risk assessments, identifying mitigating actions, and providing technical leadership to close gaps.
• Transfer technical knowledge by documenting, training employees on, and implementing standards governing facility operations.
• Troubleshoot operations through root cause analysis and structured interrogative techniques.
• Provide functional leadership by leveraging cross-functional internal and external resources to define and monitor manufacturing technology performance and coaching operators, production management, and process engineers.

Team and stakeholders

You will work with local operation teams, production supervision, the capital excellence/effectiveness team, and cross-functional internal and external resources.

Key details

The role is based in Bergen op Zoom or Schiphol, Netherlands, and can be done from any location in Europe where Cargill has offices.

Requirements

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to execute on projects.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience (typically 3 years or more).

Preferred

• Six Sigma certification or credential.
• Knowledge of process simulation tools for plant/project heat and mass balances, and of pinch technology.
• Knowledge of energy generation and/or heat exchange equipment.
• Knowledge of GHG-reduction enabling technologies (energy from biomass, heat pumps/electrification, hydrogen as fuel, and others).
• Knowledge of advanced statistical software and statistically supported decision making or data analytics.
• Cross-functional experience across project engineering, operations supervision, continuous improvement, or maintenance and reliability.