Process Engineer II

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 Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™ and 9

Lives™ dog and cat food. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. 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 or Facebook for the latest news.

Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Mich., the cereal capital of the U.S., is the company's largest manufacturing plant and home to about 600 team members. When you join the team here, you'll be helping to produce some of the most iconic cereal brands, including Honey Bunches of Oats™, PEBBLES™, and Grape-Nuts™ cereal. The Battle Creek plant is also unique as it is home to the original barn where C.W. Post started the Postum cereal company in 1895.

The Battle Creek team has deep community roots, supporting the city's Cereal Festival, The Post Foundation, and participating in several volunteer events throughout the year.

Big company opportunity. Small company attitude. If you love rolling up your sleeves to make processes healthier, more capable, and more efficient, this role is for you. You'll be a hands-on technical leader in our plant, partnering closely with Operations and Engineering to improve safety, quality, yield, rates, and overall line performance.

As a Process Engineer
, you'll serve as a frontline engineering resource focused on sustaining and improving day-to-day manufacturing performance, especially around process optimization, process control, and loss elimination. You'll own key process parameters, bring structure and urgency to problem solving, and help teams turn recurring issues into lasting solutions.

You'll also play an active role in operational routines (including daily reviews), small projects, trials, and equipment improvements, balancing quick wins with longer-term capability building.

• Be the frontline process owner for sustaining and improving safety, quality, yield, rates, and efficiency on your assigned area/lines.
• Own processing (and/or packaging) parameters and provide technical oversight and support to the Operations team.
• Lead process improvement efforts using best practices, new technology, and equipment upgrades to improve performance and consistency.
• Provide daily technical support to sustain performance targets and troubleshoot process upsets, driving repeatable countermeasures, not band-aids.
• Support data collection and reporting systems that enable strong process control and meaningful improvement work (instrumentation, operator data, downtime and loss tracking).
• Identify and recommend innovative equipment/technology that supports capability upgrades and process improvements.
• Lead small capital projects and serve as a technical sponsor for significant capital improvements.
• Partner on product/process changes as the plant representative and consultant, including commercialization support and line trials.
• Support technical training for Operations Specialists/trainers and strengthen technical problem-solving capability on the floor.
• Drive cost and loss reduction initiatives related to ingredients/materials and finished product performance, while sustaining product…