Operational Excellence Engineer

☞ Cargill

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Update day: 17-11-2025

Location: Izegem West Flanders

Category: High Technology IT - Software

Industry: Food Beverage Services Chemical Manufacturing Beverage Manufacturing

Position: Mid-Senior level

Job type: Full-time

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Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 155,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Autonomous Maintenance Engineer will contribute to develop, implement, and sustain the Autonomous Maintenance program in the different production lines and the warehouse in the bottling plant. The Autonomous Maintenance (AM) program is a combination of preventive maintenance, total quality control and employee involvement.

We seek a professional who will conduct the Autonomous Maintenance program in the production area and implement improvement projects in the line to increase the performance of the plant on a sustainable way. The Autonomous Maintenance Engineer will need to create awareness among the production team.

The position is based in the bottling plant of Izegem, Belgium.

Key Accountabilities
  • Deploy Autonomous Maintenance program in the different bottling lines
  • Sustain the Autonomous Maintenance program in the bottling lines where it is already started
  • Increase the ownership and knowledge of the equipment within the production and warehouse team
  • Empower operators that leads to improvements in the manufacturing culture
  • Train operators on the AM principles, 5S and maintenance
  • Directly provide updates on the AM program, performance measures, issues and risks to senior staff
  • Contribute to developing and execute continuous improvement plans for projects with low-to-medium cost and risk, reaching and sustaining project goals.
  • Conduct organization readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization and resource evaluation strategies that meet business requirements.
  • Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Other duties as assigned
Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical/mechanical or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of two years of related work experience
  • Experience in Autonomous Maintenance or Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) or equivalent
  • Fluent in Dutch (or willing to learn) and English
  • Other minimum qualifications may apply
Preferred Qualifications
  • Green belt certification or ability to complete this within the first year of employment
Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:

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Deadline: 01-01-2026

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