Cargill is a unique place to grow your career, your experience and your abilities. Every day, we grow our reputation as a leading international producer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. We take pride in our global reach, ability to contribute, and strong work ethics and values. Founded in 1865, Cargill is a privately held company and employs 142,000 people in 65 countries with annual revenues in excess of $133.9 billion. Through innovation, creativity and teamwork, we are transforming entire markets and people’s lives worldwide, and we can have the same impact on your career. Discover how we can be Better Together at www.cargill.com

Description

Cargill Dressings, Sauces & Oils refines vegetable and tropical oils and animal fat for a wide range of food and nonfood manufacturers. We also make shortenings, frying oils, mayonnaise, dressings, and sauces for the foodservice industry.
The business operates seven oil refineries, five shortening and oil packaging plants, a mayonnaise production facility, a dressings plant and a culinary sauce facility, all of which are located in the United States. We also operate an edible oil refinery in Mexico.

Customers include major food manufacturers and quick-service and casual-dining restaurant chains. Dressings Sauces & Oils is integrated with Cargill’s soybean crushing activities, which provide a reliable source of crude soybean oil for further processing.

Position Overview

The Cargill Dressings, Sauces and Oils Business Unit is continuously optimizing the performance of it’s facilities in order to minimize overall production cost and maximize yield to maintain and/or improve it’s competitive advantage over the competition.

The WorldWide Refined Oils Center of Excellence is instrumental in the development and implementation of Best Practices and Yield improvement projects related to the aforementioned efforts to minimize cost and maximize yield.
Specific areas in these efforts will include, but are not limited to, Energy, Centrifuge Operation and Chemical dosing and efficiency.

The DSO Process Engineer will work at a facility on projects and practices, related to cost and yield optimization. The Engineer will develop (together with the WW refined oils COE and the local team) Best Practices, but also implement various projects related to cost minimization and yield optimization. The duties of the Engineer are driven by making a noticeable impact in these areas in the mid/long term.

The engineer will also work on the development of Blue Prints and support projects in other locations, if significant advantages can be obtained by such peering.
Principal Accountabilities

10% Development of Best Practices, related to edible oils refinery plant operations
20% Implementation of such Best Practices
20% Identification of yield opportunities
25% Developing a structured approach to increase plant yield and allow for accurate determination of plant yield, using both leading- and lagging key performance indicators (ROI, “COE calculator”, massbalance, TUC-gaps etcetera)
25% Implementation of projects to increase plant yield and cost minimization

Qualifications Required

• BS degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Food engineering or other engineering discipline
• Minimum 2 years experience in a food production environment (edible oil refinery or comparable)
• Able to present complicated matter in a clear way -written and verbally
• Active and engaging oral communication skills
• Leadership and strong influencing skills
• Strong collaboration skills
• Ability to technically advise and troubleshoot
• Ability to identify resources and establish a plan to execute complex tasks
• Ability to travel 10%

Preferred

• Advanced degree
• Equipment installation or project experience
• 3+ years operations experience
• Ability to lead change management
• Understanding of PI (data historian), ACAD (auto CAD), MS Project
• Vegetable oil processing experience
• Manufacturing Execution Systems
• Proven ability to drive results
• Project Management
• Equipment installation experience

Cargill is an EEO/AA employer.
Job: Engineering
Primary Location: US-IA-Des Moines
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type:  Standard
Shift Day: Job

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Apply at Cargill

Cargill is a unique place to grow your career, your experience and your abilities. Every day, we grow our reputation as a leading international producer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. We take pride in our global reach, ability to contribute, and strong work ethics and values. Founded in 1865, Cargill is a privately held company and employs 142,000 people in 65 countries with annual revenues in excess of $133.9 billion. Through innovation, creativity and teamwork, we are transforming entire markets and people’s lives worldwide, and we can have the same impact on your career. Discover how we can be Better Together at www.cargill.com.

Description

Cargill Corn Milling North America is a manufacturer of value-added corn and sugar based products serving the Food, Feed and Fermentation segments. From facilities in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, we provide a wide variety of products and services including high fructose corn syrup, corn syrups, dextrose syrups and sucrose that are used in an array of beverage, brewing, confectionery, food and pharmaceutical applications. We also produce a variety of innovative, dry corn ingredients that are used in cereals, snacks, breads, tortillas and animal feed applications. In addition, we produce fuel-grade ethanol and are a leading supplier of corn oil, acidulants, corn gluten meal and corn gluten feed products.
Position Overview

Cargill Corn Milling North America is seeking two highly motivated individuals interested in serving as Engineer II’s at its facility located in Cedar Rapids, IA. The selected candidates will be responsible for the design, construction and start-up of capital projects.

Principal Accountabilities

25% – Develop various options to achieve project objectives. Develop capital budget, operating costs, and benefits for each option. Perform financial analysis on each option and select best option. Write commitment and get approval if appropriate.
20% – Process engineering including P&ID development, system throughput calculations and equipment selection, mass/material balance, and energy/utility calculations.
20% – Detailed design engineering and bid package development, principally through the use of a consulting engineering firm.
15% – Construction management, insuring adherence with safety requirements, schedule, and capital budget.
10% – Commissioning and start-up support to operations.
10% – Assist operations with production management

Qualifications Required

Bachelor’s of Science in Chemical, Mechanical, Biosystems Engineering or other engineering discipline that has a strong foundation in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, mass/material balance and process design.
3+ years in project engineering and/or operations supervision. Experience outside of project engineering is a plus, such as operations, PDG, and maintenance.
Knowledge of the ASAP accounting system or Ability to enter requisitions, jobs and work orders required.
High levels of organization, communication and documentation skills required to be successful.
Demonstrated deep knowledge of one or more core processes at the location i.e. wet mill, fructose refinery, etc.

Preferred

Complete engineer-in-training program TDP
Demonstrated ability to execute large projects (nominally $1MM or more) successfully
Demonstrated competencies in several of the key process unit operations such as evaporation, heat exchange, ion exchange, drying, etc.
Basic competencies in energy pinch analysis, food safety, AE&I, GMP, ASME B31.3 piping design, API 650 tank construction, MOC, NFPA, and NEC.
Cargill’s Construction Project Management course, RCA training, Cargill’s RCM course, OSHA 30 hour construction safety training, food safety training.

Cargill is an EEO/AA employer.
Job: Engineering
Primary Location: US-IA-Cedar Rapids
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Shift Day: Job

Apply online at Cargill.

Over the last year, ICNE continued to look for large grant opportunities in the quest to have “economic prosperity without greenhouse gas emissions.” The group is working to establish a way to use biomass pyrolysis and its byproducts—especially biochar, a carbon-rich material that results from burning feedstock—for energy, while also removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by sequestering it into the biosphere. Read more at Iowa State’s College of Engineering.

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=232015
NSF
13-560
POSTED: 4/26/13
LETTER OF INTENT: 5/30/13 5:00 PM PROPOSER’S TIME
PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL: 7/30/13 5:00 PM PROPOSER’S TIME
FULL PROPOSAL: 2/12/14 5:00 PM PROPOSER’S TIME
The goal of the Generation Three (Gen-3) Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program is to create a culture in engineering research and education that integrates discovery with technological innovation to advance technology and produce graduates who will be creative U.S. innovators in a globally competitive economy. These ERCs are at the forefront as the U.S. competes in the 21st century global economy where R&D resources and engineering talent are internationally distributed. Recognizing that optimizing efficiency and product quality are no longer sufficient for U.S. industry to remain competitive, these ERCs integrate transformational academic engineering research and education to stimulate increased U.S. innovation in a global context. The ERC is motivated by an engineered systems vision and structured by a strategic plan that defines a research program to address barriers in the way of realizing the vision. The strategic research plan structures an integrated program of fundamental and applied research that feeds into proof-of-concept enabling and systems technology test beds. The ERC education program is comprised of a university program and a pre-college program. The university education mission of an ERC is to prepare students for effective practice in industry and to enhance their capacity for creative and innovative leadership throughout their careers. The pre-college education mission rests on long-term partnerships with K-12 institutions to expose teachers to engineering and deliver engineering concepts and experiences to their classrooms to stimulate student interest in engineering careers. The interface of the research and the educational culture of the ERC enriches the participating universities through the transfer of ERC-generated knowledge into engineering curricula.Surrounding this research and education culture is the ERC’s innovation ecosystem, which is important for translating center advancements into actual adoption or use for U.S. competitive advantage. The innovation ecosystem of Gen-3 ERCs is achieved through a symbiotic relationship between the center researchers, industrial and practitioner members, and partner organizations devoted to stimulating entrepreneurship and innovation. The ERC research and education culture, together with its innovation ecosystem, are developed by a team of faculty, students of all levels, and staff who share the ERC’s vision. They come from different disciplines and perspectives on research, education, and technological innovation, and they include the rich perspectives offered by diversity in gender, race, ethnicity, and other demographics. In essence, this solicitation requires that effort be devoted to creating, developing, and enhancing capacities in ERCs to support the spectrum from transformational fundamental research to technological innovation and create pathways to success in engineering careers for diverse cadres of students from middle school to graduation with degrees in engineering.Proposals are solicited in two tracks: (1) Open Topic ERCs, where the PI’s are free to structure the engineered systems vision and research program without restrictions on the research content and (2) Nanosystems ERCs (NERCs), where the PIs are free to structure the engineered systems vision but the research program must include a substantial body of nanoscale fundamental research.

NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=196173
NSF
12-601
POSTED: 4/26/13
PROPOSAL: 11/21/13 5:00 PM PROPOSER’S TIME
Through the SEES Fellows Program, NSF seeks to advance science, engineering, and education to inform the societal actions needed for environmental and economic sustainability and human well-being while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. The Program’s emphasis is to facilitate investigations that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries and address issues of sustainability through a systems approach, building bridges between academic inquiry, economic growth, and societal needs. The Fellow’s proposed investigation must be interdisciplinary and allow him/her to obtain research experiences beyond his/her current core disciplinary expertise. Fellows are required to develop a research partnership(s) that will advance and broaden the impact/scope of the proposed research, and present a plan for their own professional development in the area of sustainability science and engineering.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program\

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=100077
NSF
11-550
POSTED: 4/26/13
PROPOSAL: 12/3/13 5:00 PM PROPOSER’S TIME
The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Type 1 proposals are solicited that provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions. Type 2 proposals are solicited that support educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.

Cyber-Enabled Sustainability Science and Engineering

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=203334
NSF
13-500
POSTED: 4/26/13
LETTER OF INTENT: 12/3/13 5:00 PM PROPOSER’S TIME
PROPOSAL: 2/4/14 5:00 PM PROPOSER’S TIME
The Cyber-Enabled Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES) program aims to advance interdisciplinary research in which the science and engineering of sustainability are enabled by new advances in computing, and where computational innovation is grounded in the context of sustainability problems.The CyberSEES program is one component of the National Science Foundation’s Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, a foundation-wide effort aimed at addressing the challenge of sustainability through support for interdisciplinary research and education. In the SEES context, a sustainable world is one where human needs are met equitably without harm to the environment or sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.Computational approaches play a central role in understanding and advancing sustainability. CyberSEES supports research on all sustainability topics that depend on advances in computational areas including optimization, modeling, simulation, prediction, and inference; large-scale data management and analytics; advanced sensing techniques; human computer interaction and social computing; infrastructure design, control and management; and intelligent systems and decision-making. Additionally, the widespread, intensive use of computing technologies also introduces sustainability challenges and motivates new approaches across the lifecycle of technology design and use. This program is a joint effort of all of the NSF organizations listed on the cover page and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), through its Energy Research Initiative (ERI) program. While the scope of CyberSEES is broad as detailed herein, the NSF and SRC ERI collaboration within CyberSEES focuses on cyber-enabled sustainability research that addresses computational aspects of smart infrastructures, in particular the smart electric grid.

Fundamental Research Program for Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=113274
NSF
11-570
POSTED: 4/26/13
PROPOSAL: 2/5/14 5:00 PM PROPOSER’S TIME
The National Science Foundation encourages the submission of industry-defined fundamental research proposals from NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) in areas of shared value to both centers and their members. Industry-defined fundamental research broadens the scientific and engineering understanding beyond the more specific applied research interests of the industries traditionally served by the I/UCRC. Industry participation extends the scope and horizon of center research projects so as to drive innovation with industrially relevant fundamental research projects.

NSF 13-546
FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE DATE: June 11, 2013

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business concerns in meeting Federal research and development needs, increasing the commercial application of federally supported research results, and fostering and encouraging participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses.
The SBIR program solicits proposals from the small business sector consistent with NSF’s mission. The program is governed by Public Law 112-81 (SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011). A main purpose of the legislation is to stimulate technological innovation and increase private sector commercialization. The NSF SBIR program is therefore in a unique position to meet both the goals of NSF and the purpose of the SBIR legislation by transforming scientific discovery into both social and economic benefit, and by emphasizing private sector commercialization. Accordingly, NSF has formulated broad solicitation topics for SBIR that conform to the high-technology investment sector’s interests.
The topics are:

• Biological and Chemical Technologies (BC)
• Education Applications (EA)
• Electronics, Information and Communication Technologies (EI)
• Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials, and Manufacturing (NM)

Note: The submission of the same project idea to both this SBIR Phase I solicitation and the concurrent STTR Phase I solicitation is strongly discouraged.

See Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2014 (SBIR) for more information.

Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2014 (STTR)

NSF 13-547
FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE DATE: June 13, 2013

The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business concerns in meeting Federal research and development needs, increasing the commercial application of federally supported research results, and fostering and encouraging participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses.
The STTR Program requires researchers at universities and other non-profit research institutions to play a significant intellectual role in the conduct of each STTR project. These researchers, by joining forces with a small company, can spin-off their commercially promising ideas while they remain primarily employed at the research institution. The program is governed by Public Law 112-81 (SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011).
This STTR Phase I solicitation aims at encouraging the commercialization of previously NSF-funded fundamental research (NSF funding lineage). It is highly desirable that the core innovation described in the submitted proposals can in some manner be linked to fundamental research funded by the NSF. This lineage must be documented in the Project Description section of the proposal. (See Proposal Preparation Instructions for more information.)
Please note: It is NOT required that investigators of the original NSF-funded fundamental research be directly affiliated with the proposed STTR project or personnel.
The proposals submitted should fall into one the four broad topic areas:

• Biological and Chemical Technologies (BC)
• Education Applications (EA)
• Electronics, Information and Communication Technologies (EI)
• Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials, and Manufacturing (NM)

Please Note: The submission of the same project idea to both this STTR Phase I solicitation and the concurrent SBIR Phase I solicitation is strongly discouraged.

See Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2014 (STTR) for more information.

Description

The intent of this Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory FOA is to select and award projects in FY13 that focus on improving the environmental performance of shale gas, tight oil, and tight gas resource development. This can be achieved by mitigating issues related to wellbore integrity and zonal isolation and by reducing water usage, air emissions, and resource degradation through better unconventional resource stimulation that appropriately matches technology to local geologic and hydrologic conditions. This announcement is a critical component of the DOE portfolio to advance the environmentally sound development of unconventional domestic natural gas and oil resources and it will support ongoing programmatic efforts to improve our understanding of the nature and impacts of unconventional resource development, develop improved technologies and engineering practices to ensure these resources are developed safely and with minimal environmental impact, and increase supply of U.S. oil and gas resources in order to enhance national energy security and further reduce energy imports.

For More Information

DOE:  FY2013 Unconventional Gas and Oil Technologies

Iowa State undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Integrated Studio Arts or Integrated Visual Arts were eligible to enter. Jurors were Lou Cathcart, the owner of PostSprawl Design, an interior design company, and Chris Vance, an independent artist from Des Moines and a graduate in visual studies from Iowa State.

First place and $350 went to Eric Rolek and Guillermo Thompson for their collaborative piece, Wood Metamorphosis. Second place and $250 went to Ashley Hogenson for her oil painting titled Interwoven. Third place and a $150 award went to David Chadd for Dust of Daily Life, a ceramic work.

The winners and all of the artwork entered into this year’s competition are available for viewing during business hours in the lobby of the Biorenewables Research Laboratory.

See Biorenewables Art 2013 for more information.

The open house will feature tours of the facility. Iowa State students will present posters on their algae biomass research projects. At 4 p.m., Martin Gross, an Iowa State graduate student, will give a presentation about his work on increasing the efficiency of growing algal biomass. He will also discuss other algal research being conducted at Iowa State. Following this presentation there will an open-ended conversation regarding university and industry collaboration to utilize this unique facility.

The Algal Production Facility features various production systems that are being used to grow algae, including flat panel bioreactors, two raceway pond systems, a novel revolving biofilm reactor and various lab-scale reactors. The facility has the ability to produce 1.3-4.5 kilograms of dried algae biomass per week.

The BioCentury Research Farm is located at 1327 U Avenue, Boone, Iowa, about 10 miles west of Ames.

For more information, visit www.biocenturyresearchfarm.iastate.edu/openhouse.