Process Development Engineer III - Pet R&D

** Brand:
** Post Consumer Brands

** Categories:
** Research & Development

** Locations:
** Lakeville, Minnesota

** Position Type:
** Regular Full-Time

** Remote Eligible:
** No

** Req :
** 30784

** Job Description*
* ** 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 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.

** Location Description*
* Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.

** Responsibilities*
* Big company opportunity. Small company attitude.

At Post Consumer Brands, you'll find the best of both worlds: the resources to do big things and the kind of close‑knit culture where your work has a visible handprint. We make delicious food accessible for all, and our pet portfolio is an exciting part of that story. If you love turning bold ideas into real, scalable processes and you're energized by partnering across R&D, Operations, and suppliersm this role is for you.

About the Role

As a Process Development Engineer III - Pet R&D, you'll develop, optimize, and implement proprietary process technologies and equipment that power our innovation roadmap, while also improving existing processes through value engineering and technology development. You'll drive process development from concept through commercialization, working on cross‑functional teams to deliver new pet food or snack innovation, cost savings, and quality improvements.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and support scale‑up & commercialization:
Support/lead development, scale‑up, and commercialization of Innovation, Renovation, and Value Engineering initiatives while ensuring process activities meet cost, capacity, quality, marketing, and product development requirements.

- Commissioning & qualification:
Lead commissioning and support Operations with qualification of new product/process technologies and improvements to existing process technologies.

- Documentation that enables repeatability:
Develop SOPs, manufacturing specifications, and related documentation; communicate effectively with manufacturing partners and co‑packers.

- Engineering rigor + smart experimentation:
Apply mass/energy balances, heat transfer, designed experiments, data analysis, and process flow diagrams to support decisions and knowledge capture.

- External and internal partnership:
Interface with equipment suppliers, service providers, manufacturing facilities, and key business partners (including marketing and supply chain) to achieve goals.

- Technology opportunity assessment:
Assess legal/environmental aspects and patent opportunities (with guidance) for new technologies/processes.

- Data-to-action problem solving:
Collect/analyze data from suppliers, plant operations, customers, and consumers; design/execute experiments at supplier sites and in plant operations; validate improvements and corrective actions to deliver targeted benefits.

** Qualifications*
* What We're Looking For

Required

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Chemical Engineering preferred)

- More than (5) years of relevant experience in Research and Development

- Demonstrated problem‑solving ability, innovation/creativity, and strong communication…