Process Improvement Engineer

Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.

Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

This position is in Cargill's agricultural supply chain business. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver essential products.

Job Purpose and Impact

As a Process Improvement Engineer, your primary mission is to drive process improvements across multiple facilities, including a refinery, a vegetable oil biodiesel plant, and a waste-based biodiesel plant. You'll be working in a multi-skilled, integrated team to identify inefficiencies, implement solutions, and sustain improvements

Key Accountabilities

• Directly provide updates on the project objectives, performance measures, issues and risks to senior staff.
• Identify, monitor, and implement continuous improvement best practices.
• Develop and handle continuous improvement plans for projects with low to medium cost and risk in order to reach and sustain project goals.
• Conduct organization readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization, resource evaluation and execute continuous improvement strategies that meet business requirements.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• A results-driven Continuous Improvement Specialist with a strong mechanical and reliability engineering background. Experienced in collaborating closely with reliability departments to reduce emergency losses and enhance equipment uptime. Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects in refinery and biodiesel operations, applying Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to drive sustainable process and asset improvements.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant 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.

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Client-provided location(s): Gent, Belgium

Job ID: Cargill_FGB-310452

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-08-15T18:20:22