Consultant, I&O Operations

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life's essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.

Job Purpose and Impact

• The Professional, Operations job maintains the smooth operation of the organization's infrastructure by performing moderately complex tasks, including monitoring systems, troubleshooting issues, and implementing security measures. With limited supervision, this job serves as a trusted onsite IT partner physically based within manufacturing facilities, providing hands-on support for infrastructure and workplace technology. The role may support multiple facilities within an assigned geographic territory and may require travel to nearby sites. This job collaborates with vendors and internal teams to document and resolve moderately complex network and infrastructure issues, maintain technology asset inventories, and implement solutions that improve reliability, availability, and security across plant environments.

Key Accountabilities

• MONITORING INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE: Monitors performance of network, virtual, and physical devices to maintain smooth and efficient operations, applying tools to track network traffic, identify issues, and maintain optimal performance.
• TROUBLESHOOTING & RESOLVING ISSUES: Diagnoses and resolves moderately complex infrastructure and workplace technology problems affecting routers, switches, servers, communication circuits, PCs, scanners, printers, and other site technology assets, including performing root cause analysis and implementing solutions to prevent future occurrences.
• INCIDENT MANAGEMENT: Monitors and responds to network and hosting incidents, outages, performance alerts, and production-impacting technology issues including categorizing issues and coordinating with technical teams for timely resolution.
• PROTOCOL ANALYSIS: Performs moderately complex protocol analysis to troubleshoot network issues and sustain proper communication between network devices.
• CONFIGURATION & DEPLOYMENT: Partners to configure and deploy new hardware and software while ensuring compatibility with existing systems, including setting up servers, network devices, and other infrastructure components.
• COLLABORATION & COMMUNICATION: Partners with vendors, third party service providers, remote technology teams, and internal teams to execute onsite technology work, resolve moderately complex issues and improve performance, providing effective and efficient communication, coordination and timely updates.
• DOCUMENTATION & REPORTING: Documents network and infrastructure issues, resolutions, performance trends, and technology asset inventories; provides reports to senior technical personnel and stakeholders to inform decision making and improve operational performance.
• BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY: Maintains and partners to develop backup and disaster recovery plans to ensure data integrity and availability in case of system failures or data loss.
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Co-leads information technology projects, such as system upgrades, migrations, and new implementations, delivering projects on time and within budget.
• AUTOMATION & SCRIPTING: Partners to develop automation scripts and tools to streamline infrastructure management tasks and improve operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

Client-provided location(s): Sidney, OH

Job ID: Cargill_FGB-331925

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-08-22T21:24:26