Director of Engineering and Maintenance

Director Of Engineering & Maintenance

At Post Consumer Brands, we make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. We offer the best of both worlds: big company opportunity and small company attitude, with room to make a visible impact, grow your career, and leave your handprint on the work.

Our Battle Creek, Michigan plant is the company's largest manufacturing site and home to about 600 team members producing some of our most iconic cereal brands. This is a high-visibility leadership opportunity to shape the technical future of the site and help position the plant for long-term success.

The Director of Engineering & Maintenance leads the technical direction of the Battle Creek plant, with responsibility across engineering, maintenance, and broader technical strategy for the site. This role partners closely with operations leadership to ensure the plant has the systems, processes, and long-term technical foundations needed to execute at a high level today and into the future.

This is a strategic leadership role with broad organizational scope with 130+ people across multiple technical departments including maintenance, process engineering, project management, and controls engineering. You'll help shape the site's long-term capabilities while influencing performance, people development, and technical excellence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Setting the strategic technical direction for the plant across engineering, maintenance, and long-range site readiness.
• Ensuring the right systems, processes, and capabilities are in place so the site can execute reliably and improve over time.
• Leading plant performance improvement through a focus on runtime, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and cost per pound.
• Building and developing technical leadership bench strength, including succession capability within the organization.
• Advancing value stream engineering and process capability thinking across the plant to drive stronger end-to-end technical and operational performance.
• Partnering across functions to move the site forward with strong technical judgment, leadership discipline, and a future-focused mindset.

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering strongly preferred, ideally in chemical, electrical, mechanical, or a similarly rigorous engineering discipline. Degree in Management or other science required.
• Ability to relocate for future roles within the network, for your future growth and development.
• Strong technical leadership experience paired with operational credibility in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience that reflects more than capital projects alone, with backgrounds such as process engineering, process engineering supervision, operations management, or similar technical/operations leadership paths viewed favorably.
• Strong preference for experience working in a union environment.
• A leader who understands how to improve plant performance while developing others and building capability for the future.
• Someone energized by value stream engineering, end-to-end process thinking, and continuous improvement.

Why you'll love this role:

• This is a chance to make a visible impact at one of Post Consumer Brands' most important manufacturing sites.
• The role offers significant scope and influence, with responsibility for major technical functions and the opportunity to shape long-term site performance.
• Success in this role can create a meaningful path toward future site leadership and broader manufacturing leadership opportunities throughout the network.
• You'll be part of a company that combines strong resources, beloved brands, and meaningful career growth with an inviting, small-company culture.
• We're looking for people with big ambitions, big hearts, and the desire to make a big difference.

Location:

Battle Creek, Michigan

Relocation support is available for this role.

Travel to corporate and other sites as needed (10% or less)

Ready to make an impact? If you're a strategic technical leader who thrives on improving performance, building strong teams, and creating the conditions for long-term success, we'd love to hear from you. Join Post Consumer Brands and discover a role where your leadership can shape what's next — for the plant, for the business, and for your career.