Manufacturing Engineer – Food Process Innovation

Business Unit Overview

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9

Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea:
To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit  and follow us on Linked In and Facebook for the latest news.

At Post Consumer Brands, we’ve spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story.

As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we’ve extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof.

This phase is still new, and that’s what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we’re looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.

The Post Consumer Brands plant in Asheboro, NC, features some of the most modern cereal production technology in the industry and the facility has quadrupled in size since it opened in 2007. Asheboro's 200+ team members produce some of our newest and most innovative cereals, like Oreo Puff's cereal! While there is plenty to do right in Asheboro, the town is only a few hours from the Atlantic Ocean in one direction and the Blue Ridge Mountains in the other direction.

Manufacturing Engineer

OVERVIEW:

• Frontline Engineering Resource for sustaining and improving safety, quality, yield, rates and other efficiencies.

• Technical owner of process parameters and technical oversight / resource for Operations team.

• Plant representative and consultant for product and process changes.

• Lead small capital projects and technical sponsor for significant capital improvements.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Best Practice Implementation. Improvement of Process. Application of new technology and equipment to improve process.

• Support technical training for Operations Specialists (trainers) and provide technical oversight.

• Provide daily support to sustain current process performance targets for safety, quality, yield, rate and efficiency.

• Lead efforts to improve current process to achieve planned goals and targets.

• Support data collection and reporting systems that enable process consistency and process improvement efforts. Support meaningful and accurate data from people and process instrumentation.

• Identify and recommend new and innovative equipment technologies that support process improvements and projects.

• Support cost reduction changes related to ingredient, materials and finished product.

• Lead small capital projects.

• Coordinate with internal and external resources commercializing new products.

• Support ongoing efforts to sustain process and product attributes related to finished product taste.

• Provide engineering support for safety improvements.

Qualifications:

• Understanding of Lean Manufacturing/Continuous Improvement methodologies.
• Must have strong analytical and business judgment including demonstrated problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills.
• Ability to influence, mentor and coach to get results through others.
• Results driven for being the low-cost producer and supporting company growth strategies.
• Have strong bias for…