Job Description

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill\'s global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Process Development Engineer will support a core technology component area for Cargill businesses as well as customers. In this role, you will drive and support the research group in a given implementation of business defined technology needs. This position serves as a leader in process development, process improvement and piloting efforts and as a resource in one or more broad core technology components. You will develop, lead, and execute research projects that are complex in nature and may require multidisciplinary approaches. Key Accountabilities

Provide subject matter expertise to project teams and functions by offering technical guidance and scientific insight for new process development and process improvements.
Plan, coordinate and support execution of pilot trials and document & communicate trial results to the key project stakeholders.
Lead new product or high-performance innovation efforts as technical lead.
Identify and lead evaluations of external process or manufacturing technologies or facilities.
Identify and develop new process or product opportunities that create distinct value and enable business growth.
Provide leadership, coaching and mentorship to a subordinate group.
Support and comply with corporate and local safety and food or product safety policies and procedures.
Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned.
#LI-MK1 Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Expertise in process technologies and engineering principles relevant to process development and scale-up
• Experience with experimental design & data analysis
• Minimum of four years of related work experience or Ph.D.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master\'s degree
• Ability to adapt and learn in a changing environment
• Expertise in separation and purification, distillation, and drying techniques at lab and/or pilot scale.
• Experience in high temperature & pressure processing technologies
• Expertise applying modeling to understanding and troubleshooting complex processes
• Experience in developing, leading, and participating in multidisciplinary teams
• Minimum 5 years of experience in new food process development
• Minimum 5 years of experience in process improvement or optimization efforts

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.