Utiliities Lead (Remote)

About the Role

Join Cargill's Food Enterprise as part of the Maintenance and Reliability Excellence team, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring preventative maintenance, audit readiness, and compliance across multiple plant locations in North America. You will guide energy efficiency, wastewater management, and utility systems, including ammonia refrigeration, boilers, HVAC, and electrical systems. Your work will focus on improving stability, capability, and availability of utility processes while reducing variability and risk, enabling plants to meet efficiency targets and protect people, communities, and the environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze resource usage trends and develop operational plans to optimize systems for peak efficiency.
• Implement reporting for consistent monitoring and early warning indicators for utility departments.
• Influence and partner with site teams in maintenance, utilities, engineering, and operations.
• Manage corporate projects to pilot industry-leading technologies and assess operational fit.
• Advocate for continuous improvement and bring data-driven insights to team leadership.
• Plan and schedule maintenance of plant utility systems using reliability models and predictive technologies.
• Assess and recommend upgrades to existing systems as needed.
• Monitor and manage variable and fixed utility and energy costs in collaboration with technology, finance, operations, compliance, and third-party teams.
• Plan and monitor production shutdowns to ensure legal and preventive maintenance compliance.
• Partner with Capital Leads to align budgets for non-base capital investments.
• Influence and mentor utilities teams, providing recommendations for skills improvements and decision-making preparedness.
• Handle complex issues independently with minimal supervision, escalating only the most complex issues.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field OR equivalent experience.
• Minimum of four years of related work experience.
• Minimum of 4 years hands-on operator/technician experience with ammonia refrigeration systems.
• Process Safety Management experience.
• Ability to travel at least 50%.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule when necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• RETA CIRO certification.
• Experience coordinating third-party resources to deliver business results.
• Experience with site steam and condensate distribution systems, compressed air supply, cooling towers, effluent systems, and potable water systems.

This position is remote with travel to Cargill Food Enterprise locations in North America, including Nebraska City, NE; Schuyler, NE; Fort Morgan, CO; Dodge City, KS; Friona, TX; Wyalusing, PA; Lake Odessa, MI; Big Lake, MN; Monticello, MN; Mason City, IA; London, ON; Guelph, ON; High River, AB. Locations are subject to change.