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Electrical Engineer

Eddyville, IAOnsiteFull TimePosted 25 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • electrical engineering standards
  • electrical engineering applications
  • electrical engineering gaps
  • electrical engineering solutions
  • electrical engineering measurements
  • capital project

Nice to have

  • Lean Six Sigma
  • SAP
  • AUTOCAD
  • BLUEBEAN
  • SKM
  • Project management

Role summary

Cargill is seeking an Electrical Engineering Specialist to provide technical support and governance for electrical engineering standards, applications, and solutions to enhance production quality, efficiency, and volume within their Food Enterprise. This role involves participating in complex electrical engineering activities, supporting project enablement, and improving organizational capabilities. Key responsibilities include developing and implementing standards, providing input on tools and methodologies, supporting capital projects, identifying and bridging engineering gaps, and proposing performance improvement solutions while managing acceptable risk tolerance. The position requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of four years of related work experience.

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 life’s 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 Electrical Engineering Specialist will provide technical support and specialist knowledge for overall governance for electrical engineering standards, applications, gaps, solutions and measurements to increase production quality, efficiency and volume for the business. In this role, you will participate in complex activities related to electrical engineering to enable projects and improve our capabilities by providing engineering support for the organization.

Key Accountabilities

  • Support the development of the most effective approach to identify, monitor and implement electrical engineering standards, policies, procedures and job aids.
  • Provide input to cross functional teams to select and implement tools and methodologies that will enable best practices.
  • Provide direct support and delivery of services for the organization.
  • Support providing leadership to the planning and implementation of electrical engineering standards and deliverables in capital project.
  • Execute the tactical development and delivery oversight of vision, direction and strategy for electrical engineering.
  • Identify opportunities and bridge electrical engineering gaps in applications by establishing auditing control mechanisms.
  • Propose and develop recommendations in areas of improvement by implementing solutions to improve performance and identify acceptable risk tolerance.
  • Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of four years of related work experience as electrical engineering
  • Other minimum qualifications may apply

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Lean six sigma
  • SAP knowledge
  • Experience working with AUTOCAD, BLUEBEAN, SKM
  • Project management and process safety management experience

Position Information

  • Location: Eddyville, Iowa
  • Relocation assistance is provided for this role
  • Work Schedule: Monday to Friday 8am-5pm

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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