Process improvement 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 specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Process Improvement Engineer will be responsible to deliver production excellence processes and management systems focused on driving operational performance and value creation across manufacturing plants. In this role, you will use your knowledge to ensure alignment of key operational metrics.

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.
• Responsible for leveraging the most effective approach to identify, monitor, and where applicable, implement continuous improvement and best practices initiatives.
• Manage and implement proactive maintenance and reliability activities, production excellence activities and continuous improvement activities for a less complex site or a single more complex department.
• Lead local and departmental alignment of stakeholders including operations, environmental and supply chain.
• Partner collaboratively with cross functional regional leaders to leverage resources, knowledge and strategies that increase value captured throughout the portfolio of production excellence projects.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Design and optimize manufacturing processes and equipment to ensure product quality.
• Lead and deliver continuous improvement initiatives to support operational excellence.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or related engineering field.
• Minimum of 2 years of related work experience as Process Improvement Engineer.
• Fluent communication skills in both English and Turkish (spoken and written).
• Other minimum qualifications may apply.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge and application of safety principles and methodologies.
• Strong communication, organization and time management skills.
• Lean six sigma and continuous improvement capabilities.
• Experience creating complex tests and analysis.
• Project management experience.

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.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today: Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargill

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