IT Plant Champion

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life's essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Plant Champion job maintains the smooth operation of the organization's infrastructure by performing moderately complex tasks, including monitoring systems, troubleshooting issues, and implementing security measures. With limited supervision, this job resolves network issues, responds and handles incidents, and conducts protocol analysis to ensure proper communication between network devices. This job collaborates with vendors and internal teams to document moderately complex network and infrastructure issues and implement security measures to protect the network infrastructure.
Key Accountabilities

• MONITORING INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE: Monitors network performance to maintain smooth and efficient operations, applying tools to track network traffic, identify issues, and maintain optimal performance.
• TROUBLESHOOTING & RESOLVING ISSUES: Diagnoses and resolves moderately complex network and hosting problems affecting routers, switches, servers, and communication circuits, including performing root cause analysis and implementing solutions to prevent future occurrences.
• INCIDENT MANAGEMENT: Monitors and responds to network and hosting incidents, outages, and performance alerts, including categorizing issues and coordinating with technical teams for timely resolution.
• PROTOCOL ANALYSIS: Performs moderately complex protocol analysis to troubleshoot network issues and sustain proper communication between network devices.
• CONFIGURATION & DEPLOYMENT: Partners to configure and deploy new hardware and software while ensuring compatibility with existing systems, including setting up servers, network devices, and other infrastructure components.
• COLLABORATION & COMMUNICATION: Partners with vendors, third party service providers, and internal teams to resolve moderately network issues and improve network performance, providing effective and efficient communication, coordination and timely updates.
• DOCUMENTATION & REPORTING: Documents network issues, resolutions, and performance trends, and provides reports to senior technical personnel and stakeholders to inform decision making and improve network operations.
• BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY: Maintains and partners to develop backup and disaster recovery plans to ensure data integrity and availability in case of system failures or data loss.
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Co-leads information technology projects, such as system upgrades, migrations, and new implementations, delivering projects on time and within budget.
• AUTOMATION & SCRIPTING: Partners to develop automation scripts and tools to streamline infrastructure management tasks and improve operational efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
• IT/Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Fluency in English
• Communication, customer service, problem-solving, customer orientation
• Hardware/software troubleshooting, networking, support tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of Virtual systems
• Strong understanding of network infrastructure
• Manufacturing IT knowledge
• Control System/DCS experience
• CompTIA A+, Network+, Microsoft, ITIL (strong advantage)

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.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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