Engineer

Job Description

About Cargill:

Cargill is a global company with a team of 155,000 employees. For over 154 years, they have connected farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need. They utilize new technologies, dynamic insights, and extensive experience to achieve this. Cargill prides itself on offering diverse career trajectories.

Job Description: Engineer

Cargill offers entry-level engineering positions at various production facilities across the United States. The role is designed to provide exposure to both the technical and people management aspects of engineering, facilitating career growth within the company.

Responsibilities:

Engineers will initially work in either an Operations Leadership or Maintenance & Reliability Engineering role. The specific tasks 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), but all roles involve leading teams and executing critical initiatives in a fast-paced production environment.

Specific Responsibilities across various career paths within Cargill might include:

• Production Management Engineers: Leading production employees, overseeing daily operations, managing regulatory compliance (environmental, health, safety), participating in process optimization, and potentially leading capital projects. This involves hiring, scheduling, motivating employees, and handling employee relations.

• Environmental Engineers: Leading teams responsible for facility systems (refrigeration, steam, water, compressed air, wastewater treatment), ensuring environmental compliance, and managing related projects.

• Process/Project Engineers: Developing business cases, managing budgets, and overseeing projects related to process optimization, safety, quality, infrastructure, and energy use. This includes involvement in innovation processes and implementing technical initiatives.

• Maintenance and Reliability Engineers: Leading maintenance teams, overseeing planned and unplanned maintenance activities, optimizing asset performance and uptime, and utilizing reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), root cause analysis (RCA), and 5S methodologies.

Work Environment:

The work environment is described as team-oriented, fast-paced, and hands-on, focusing on safety, employee engagement, inclusion, and innovation. The roles are based in industrial/processing environments and require physical activity, potentially involving exposure to heat, cold, grain dust, etc.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Starting salary: $78,000 (Note: This does not include geographic differentials).
• Relocation benefits (qualifying candidates).
• Comprehensive healthcare plans and incentives.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Competitive retirement plans and registration assistance.
• Paid time off for volunteer activities.
• Paid holidays and floating holidays.
• Short-term and long-term incentives.
• Mental health and wellbeing program.
• Digital learning library.
• Paid time off.

Qualifications:

• Required: Right to work in the U.S. (not based solely on a student or third-party sponsored visa), Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering (agricultural, biological systems, chemical, electrical, mechanical, industrial, mining, or other related field) completed between Summer 2025 and December 2025, willingness and ability to relocate, ability to work with diverse teams, strong communication skills.

• Preferred: Previous plant, production, co-op, or intern experience, GPA of 2.7 or higher, ability to apply technical knowledge to job duties, problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, demonstrated leadership skills.