Production Engineer - Various Locations - Employment, career opportunity in USA

Job Title:  Production Engineer - Various Locations
Location: - (Decatur, Illinois, Mid-West United States, USA)
Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Deadline: 11th Jan 2014
Job Type: Full Time
Minimum Years Experience Required: N/A



For more than a century, the people of Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) have transformed crops into products that serve vital needs. Today, 30,000 ADM employees around the globe convert oilseeds, corn, wheat and cocoa into products for food, animal feed, industrial and energy uses.
With more than 265 processing plants, 460 crop procurement facilities, and the world's premier crop transportation network, ADM helps connect the harvest to the home in more than 140 countries. For more information about ADM and its products, visit www.adm.com.
Production Engineer
For more than a century, the people of Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) have transformed crops into products that serve vital needs. Today, 30,000 ADM employees around the globe convert oilseeds, corn, wheat and cocoa into products for food, animal feed, industrial and energy uses. With more than 265 processing plants, 460 crop procurement facilities, and the world's premier crop transportation network, ADM helps connect the harvest to the home in more than 140 countries. For more information about ADM and its products, visit www.adm.com.

About the Position:
The typical career path for an ADM engineer begins in the position of production engineer. This position provides an opportunity for new engineers to join the plant management team, starting in oilseed  processing or corn wet-milling facilities, with the possibility of moving from there to plants that produce a wide range of products such as baking ingredients, pasta, cocoa, gums, sweeteners, ethanol, vitamins and edible vegetable oils.
Recent engineering graduates are assigned to a production unit where they gain first-hand experience in leading employees, equipment trouble-shooting and dealing with the myriad challenges routinely faced in a facility that operates around the clock, 365 days per year.
The experience begins with on-the-job training through observation and typically progresses during the first year to full responsibility for a team working rotating shifts. This experience provides invaluable first-hand knowledge of the plants, processes, products and employees in the real world of manufacturing at ADM.
 
Position Details & Requirements
The production engineer job consists of three primary components: management exposure, supervisory responsibility, and application of engineering expertise.

Early in their assignment, production engineers will be exposed to a number of members of management in action. As they rotate through multiple production units to become familiar with ADM's operations, they see different members of the management team using their leadership styles to address various situations. Production engineers also gain an appreciation for keeping an eye on the "big picture" (present and future of the overall operation and company) while addressing individual issues. After being assigned to lead a work group of their own, they have an opportunity to apply their own leadership approach to interface with employees and management to accomplish the work of the unit.
Production engineers apply their engineering expertise to monitor production processes and equipment, solve production problems, and provide input on process improvements. Involvement might include sizing of equipment, identifying equipment capacity requirements, developing process control systems or increasing efficiencies of the flow of fluid materials. They are exposed to installation of new equipment and modification of existing equipment, along with all of the inherent training and start-up issues that must be addressed.




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