Excellence and Innovation Leader

Cargill's global team of employees are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world.

This position is in Cargill's animal nutrition and health business, where we improve lives through better nutrition.

Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.

We are seeking a Manufacturing Excellence and Quality Improvement Leader to provide overall corporate governance and strategic direction in the way we safely & efficiently design, build, operate, maintain and improve our facilities.

The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership to our manufacturing excellence and operations team through innovative and transformational improvements producing operational results.

Lead the advancement of smart manufacturing strategy to realize the power of automation, data and analytics in partnership with Corporate ME and support execution of strategy with Regional BOSC and Manufacturing Excellence Leaders.

In partnership with supply chain leader integrate manufacturing excellence activities with supply chain management to support system to better serve customers in value chain.

• Partners with functional leadership (engineering, R&D, CSSP, Reliability, EHS, FSQR) to define strategic design requirements for Cargill.
• Provides strategic leadership to establish deployment systems and processes of those requirements with ANH and CAN ME Leaders, and Operations leaders ensuring consistent program across all regions leveraging leading practices.
• Define and monitor production excellence performance measures and continuous improvement practices and tools to improve quality, manufacturing costs, yields, reliability, and throughput.
• Lead collaboration across enterprise to accelerate deployment of leading practices across technologies and internally with other enterprises or externally with technology leaders.
• Develop and execute strategy to further automate and digitalize operations and integrate with supply chain management practices. This includes plant systems and controls, manufacturing execution systems, manufacturing operations management and operational intelligence.
• Define and maintain strategic partnerships with customers to develop deep knowledge of manufacturing setting.
• Develop preventive approaches for meeting efficiency standards.
• Lead and advise production and engineering managers in reliability excellence and production excellence implementation.
• Develop standards of quality, cost, safety, reliability, timeliness, and performance and ensure standards are applied in production.
• Develop and execute new methodologies across multiple plants, and platforms.

Additional Responsibilities Include:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and minimum 15 years' experience working in engineering and technical operations.
• Deep expertise and knowledge of feed manufacturing technology or similar industry, with aqua extrusion experience preferred.
• Experience in reliability excellence and maintenance Advanced process automation and control knowledge Proven success in developing, implementing, and leading strategic initiatives/project plans Strong fundamental understanding of industry leading practices in managing risks Demonstrated skills at managing and leading in complex and ambiguous situations Ability to travel up to 30% of time
• Preferred Qualifications Six Sigma black belt certification and/or other Quality Management skills Knowledge of construction project management skills Knowledge of Food, Occupational and Process Safety standards and requirements Experience leading classroom training Experience working with Strategic Vendors and Large Engineering Service Providers MBA

Competitive Salary and Benefits Combined With Outstanding Career Development Opportunities In One Of The Largest And Most Solid Private Companies In The World