Senior Reliability Engineer
Job Summary
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 lifes 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 Senior Reliability Engineer will be a key leader on the maintenance and reliability management team for the discipline of reliability this role you will work with the reliability team to drive improvement of plant reliability and champion the defect elimination process. You will apply knowledge and experience to ensure continuous improvement to optimize the companys physical assets and maintenance and reliability processes and strategies and be directly involved in the continued implementation and leadership of a progressive and integrated reliability centered maintenance and equipment reliability improvement process.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead build and develop the reliability engineering team skills and communicate advanced reliability concepts using a variety of techniques to provide guidance and training to more junior reliability engineers.
- Support team leadership through prioritization of reliability excellence activities and identify and prioritize reliability engineering value creation opportunities and lead the bad actor identification quantification and elimination process.
- Participate in process teams lead asset health initiatives and champion asset health improvement and production process stability by driving the consistent application of reliability centered maintenance and root cause analysis.
- Lead and develop programs for sustainability to enhance the maintenance and reliability capabilities that ensure the building and development of competency mechanical reliability practices and knowledge of those practices is shared throughout the team.
- Participate in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans of large projects including setting reliability standards equipment evaluation criteria technical supplier evaluation and inspection criteria as part of the reliability excellence deliverables.
- Design and develop new and unique engineering methods and procedures special equipment innovative test procedures and special analysis of failure techniques to drive improvement of reliability and maintenance activities.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of four years of related work experience
- Solid knowledge in the application of reliability tools
- Knowledge in maintenance process management
- Experience in production maintenance or project management
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified maintenance reliability professional or similar certification
- Training in predictive maintenance technologies
- Training and knowledge of management of the proactive maintenance model
Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vet
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.