Description

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 Production Excellence Engineer II is responsible for fostering a culture of excellence and turning it into a competitive advantage to help improve manufacturing processes and products. In this role, you will provide guidance on process capabilities, risk analysis, performance monitoring, technical training, and significant improvements to business processes. You will provide technical expertise to production supervisors for improvements and problem-solving, collaborate with the production excellence team to identify projects and benchmark processes, and work directly with local operational teams to implement manufacturing improvement plans.

Position open only to candidates from Brazil.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide direct updates on the objectives of the project you manage, performance metrics, issues, and risks to the team and senior leadership.

• Assist the local team in analyzing performance and identifying opportunities through key indicators, manufacturing cost reports, and steady-state operations, generating sustainable value year after year.

• Identify, monitor, and implement best practices for continuous improvement.

• Contribute to the development and management of continuous improvement plans for low-cost, low-risk projects, achieving and maintaining project goals.

• Act as a champion of the culture of operational excellence by conducting methodological training; implementing operational standards; supporting problem-solving through structured analysis; leading the rollout of local strategies; and promoting performance analysis focused on indicators, costs, and operational stability; all aligned with best practices in the manufacturing excellence system.

• Independently resolve moderately complex problems with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to the appropriate team.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience;
• At least two years of relevant work experience;
• Yellow Belt certification;
• Experience implementing continuous improvement projects in industry and/or with operational excellence management systems (TPM, WCM);
• Intermediate English Level.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced English;
• Green Belt certification;
• Intermediate Power BI;
• Knowledge of process monitoring and analysis tools, such as PI Vision and SEEQ.

At Cargill, everyone matters and everyone counts. Cargill is committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. As such and in alignment with our Guiding Principles, Cargill's long-standing equal employment opportunity policy prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, family status, citizenship status, veteran status, military status, union affiliation, or any other status protected by law. Cargill also complies with all applicable national and local laws and regulations pertaining to non-discrimination and employment