Operational Safety Excellence Technician (m/f/d)

Operational Safety Excellence Technician (m/f/d)

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

Job Purpose and Impact

As an Operational Safety Excellence Technician, you will perform routine activities to implement operational excellence procedures and management systems aimed at fostering a health and safety culture across the Cocoa & Chocolate manufacturing plant. You will ensure plant compliance with key operational safety standards, behaviors, and qualifications, working closely with the Environmental, Health, and Safety department.

This position is temporary for 1 year.

Key Accountabilities

• Support operations by analyzing and recommending solutions for technical, process, and behavioral health and safety hazards.
• Identify and implement sustainable improvements to system documentation (e.g., Enablon), standard work, and processes.
• Execute safety improvement projects aligned with plant priorities, based on field checks, audits, or assessments, delivering timely results.
• Leverage effective approaches to identify, monitor, and implement corrective and preventive actions, as well as safe practices initiatives.
• Lead safety culture initiatives on the shopfloor by analyzing current practices and providing training and solutions.
• Support the plant operations manager with data analysis on safety performance across departments (Production Cocoa, Production Chocolate, Maintenance, Reliability), including occasional presentations.
• Ensure deployment of safety solutions considering impacts on food safety, quality, process safety, capacity, reliability, environmental, and cost constraints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience (e.g., craftsman).
• Knowledge of safety standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques.
• Proficiency in German at a C level (according to European Reference GER).

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Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating international environment that challenges your abilities and nurtures your talents. We offer a competitive salary, benefits, and outstanding career development opportunities within one of the world's largest and most stable private companies.

Our team of 160,000 professionals across 70 countries connects the worlds of food, agriculture, nutrition, and risk management. For over 150 years, we have supported farmers in growing more, linking them to broader markets. We develop products that meet consumer needs, advance nutrition, food safety, and sustainability. We also help our partners innovate and manage risks to nourish the world tomorrow.