Engineer Associate
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Job Description
About Cargill:
Cargill is a global, family-owned company with a purpose to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. They provide food, ingredients, agricultural solutions, and industrial products vital to daily life. Cargill connects farmers to markets, customers to ingredients, and families to essential goods (eggs, edible oils, salt, skincare products, feed, and alternative fuel). With 160,000 colleagues in 70 countries, their products impact billions daily.
Job Description: Engineer Associate
This entry-level position offers a diverse career trajectory within Cargill. The role provides exposure to both people management and technical aspects of engineering within a fast-paced production environment. New hires will be an integral part of the team from day one, building skills and knowledge for future roles.
Responsibilities:
Initially, Engineers will work in one of Cargill’s many Canadian production facilities, leading teams in production or maintenance. Specific responsibilities will vary depending on the business unit (Agricultural Supply Chain North America, Cocoa and Chocolate, Deicing Technology, Global Edible Oil Solutions North America, Industrial Specialties, Protein, Salt, Starches and Sweeteners, and Texturizing Solutions). The role is designed to provide exposure to both the technical and management aspects of engineering.
Two main career paths are available to Engineer Associates:
• Production Management Engineers: These engineers lead people, processes, and input/output in a plant environment, directly supervising operators and production activities. Responsibilities include daily production management, ensuring regulatory compliance (environmental, health, safety, maintenance, and housekeeping), process optimization, equipment/process reliability, and managing capital projects. Within the first two years, they typically lead teams of production employees, handling hiring, scheduling, motivation, and employee relations.
• Maintenance & Reliability Engineers: These engineers lead people, processes, and assets to optimize facility uptime and repair costs. They supervise skilled tradespeople for planned and unplanned work, manage short and long-term planning (weekly maintenance, capital projects, process improvements), and utilize tools like Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), 5S, and 5-Why to prevent asset failures.
Work Environment:
The work environment is described as collaborative, fast-paced, and hands-on, focusing on safety, employee engagement, inclusion, and innovation. Plants are industrial/processing environments requiring moderate physical exertion and potential exposure to heat, cold, grain dust, etc.
Qualifications:
• Required: Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum, industrial, agricultural, biological systems, chemical, electrical, mechanical, mining, or other engineering field (graduation between December 2024 and August 2025). Legal authorization to work in Canada. Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals. Willingness and ability to relocate. Strong communication skills (written and oral).
• Preferred: Previous plant, production, co-op, or intern experience. Ability to apply technical knowledge to job duties. Problem-solving and decision-making skills. Demonstrated leadership skills and experience.
Benefits:
Cargill offers a comprehensive benefits package including paid holidays and time off, health, dental, disability, and life insurance, short-term and long-term incentives, retirement plans, mental health and wellbeing programs, a digital learning library, volunteer opportunities, tuition reimbursement, and relocation benefits (where applicable).
