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Cargill Automation & Controls Specialist in Lansing, New York

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Automation and Controls Specialist will apply technical knowledge to design, develop and maintain overall governance on standards, application, solutions and measurements to increase production quality, efficiency and volume for the road safety business. In this role, you will perform day to day activities related to automation, electrical and instrumentation engineering to enable projects and improve our capabilities by providing engineering support for the mining operation.

Key Accountabilities

  • Apply general knowledge of principles, terms, and practices of automation, electrical and instrumentation engineering to support the design and build of safe and reliable operations.

  • Coordinate and provide direct support and delivery of services for plant communication networks.

  • Execute and support automation, electrical and instrumentation engineering standards and deliverables in capital projects.

  • Monitor and support progress for projects with low to medium levels of complexity and ensure appropriate resource allocations and portfolio prioritization.

  • Implement, monitor and track audit control mechanisms within area of scope to track performance and provide actionable solutions that contribute to improvements.

  • Support more senior team members to assess automation, electrical and instrumentation engineering development and application opportunities and further dissemination across common practice areas.

  • Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

  • Provide recommendations and oversight for technicians and electricians on the installation and maintenance of PLCs, HMIs, and other plant communication systems.

  • Collaborate with programmers to implement automation mechanisms and generate effective data visualizations of operating systems.

  • Other duties as assigned.

Position Information.

  • Compensation

The expected salary for this position is $90,000 - $110,000. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance

  • Benefits

Full-Time (30+ hours) positions are eligible for a benefit package including the following (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions): Paid time off; paid holidays; medical, vision and dental coverage; flexible spending accounts; life insurance; disability insurance; retirement savings; employee and family assistance program (EAP).

Position Information.

  • This position is posted internally as well as externally.

  • Relocation assistance will be provided for this position.

  • This position is located in Lansing, New York.

  • The work schedule is: Monday to Friday from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM. There are also some events that might need to work on the weekends.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field OR equivalent experience.

  • Minimum of two years of related work experience.

  • Ability and willingness to work on underground mining environment.

  • Experience with maintaining HMIs, VFDs, and PLC systems.

  • Strong commitment to safety culture.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Intermediate project management skills.

  • Strong technical and computer skills.

  • Demonstrated working knowledge of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques.

  • Experience working in heavy industrial field such as mining, construction, manufacturing, etc.

  • Experience with SAP system, AVEVA products, AutoCAD, RSLogix, etc.

  • Experience with optimization of plant instrumentation such as flowmeters, transducers, scales, level sensors, etc.

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