Process Development Engineer – Pet R&D

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 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.

Big company opportunity. Small company attitude. At Post Consumer Brands, you’ll have the resources to do big things and the close-knit culture to see your handprint on the work. Our pet portfolio is an exciting part of how we make delicious food accessible for all.

As a Process Development Engineer - Pet R&D, you’ll develop, optimize, and implement proprietary process technologies and equipment that advance our innovation roadmap. You’ll also improve existing processes through value engineering and technology development, moving work from concept through commercialization to support pet food and snack innovation, cost savings, and quality improvements.

• Lead and support the development, scale-up, and commercialization of innovation, renovation, and value engineering initiatives, ensuring process activities meet cost, capacity, quality, marketing, and product development requirements.
• Lead commissioning and support Operations with qualification of new product and process technologies, as well as improvements to existing process technologies.
• Develop standard operating procedures, manufacturing specifications, and related documentation that enable repeatable execution across manufacturing partners and co-packers.
• Apply mass and energy balances, heat transfer principles, designed experiments, data analysis, and process flow diagrams to guide decisions and capture technical knowledge.
• Partner with equipment suppliers, service providers, manufacturing facilities, Marketing, Supply Chain, and other business partners to achieve project goals.
• Assess legal and environmental considerations and, with guidance, potential patent opportunities related to new technologies and processes.
• Collect and analyze data from suppliers, plant operations, customers, and consumers to identify opportunities and guide problem solving.
• Design and execute experiments at supplier sites and manufacturing facilities, then validate improvements and corrective actions against targeted benefits.

• Make a visible impact by helping bring new processes, technologies, and scaled products to life.
• Turn ideas into commercial reality for products families trust and pets love, with a focus on quality and accessibility.
• Work with strong resources and cross-functional partners in a culture that values flexibility, inclusion, and collaboration.
• Use experimentation, engineering fundamentals, and creative problem solving to tackle complex process challenges.