Instrumentation 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 food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Instrumentation Engineer will provide technical support and specialist knowledge for overall governance on standards, application, gaps, solutions and measurements to increase production quality, efficiency and volume for the business. In this role, you will contribute to improve activities related to instrumentation engineering to enable projects and improve our capabilities by providing engineering support for the organization. This role will help identify emerging instrument technologies and their application as it pertains to the business. Additionally, this role will be working with sites to implement predictive instrumentation strategies, assisting site instrument engineers on site standard development and implementation, and improving overall instrument strategies.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and be accountable for the regional instrumentation technology project execution and instrumentation technical roadmap development in alignment with global, group, regional and industry standards.
• Support the development of the most effective approach to identify, monitor and implement instrumentation 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 instrumentation engineering standards and deliverables in capital project.
• Execute the tactical development and delivery oversight of vision, direction and strategy for instrumentation engineering.
• Identify opportunities and bridge instrumentation engineering gaps in applications by establishing auditing control mechanisms.
• Propose and develop recommendations in areas of improvement and 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
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Eight years of working experience in instrumentation, such as temperature, flow, pH, O2, pressure, level (radar, nuclear, laser), and control valves.
• Knowledge of industry practices and standards such as ISA 18.2, ISA 88, NFPA 85, NFPA 86, IEC 61131, IEC 61508 and IEC 61511
• Design and implementation knowledge of plant digital bus technologies.
• Instrumentation knowledge of SIS systems, SIL rated devices, IS instrumentation, and area electrical classifications.
• Process safety management experience.
• Conduct complex analysis, quality tests and inspections that require a high level of independent judgment.
• Frequent interaction with internal and external personnel often requiring coordination between departments.
• Project management skills with previous experience on executing capital project greater than $.5MM.
• AMS Device Manager/FieldCare Experience
• Control valve sizing software and use
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

The expected salary for this position is $115,000-135,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance.

At Cargill we put people first.  As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellnessto learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions) .