Senior Automation Engineer

Business Unit Overview

Feeding the world is what we do – how we do it is unique. We are not your textbook consumer packaged goods company. While others may be slow to make change happen, Post continuously drives both inorganic and organic growth. Our history is evidence of that fact with over 100 years of heritage and growth from brands that transcend generations like Honey Bunches of Oats, Fruity Pebbles, Malt-O-Meal, Bob Evans, Kibbles 'n Bits, Egg Beaters, Peter Pan peanut butter and more.

Our food service and ingredient businesses supply other products you love for brands, restaurants and stores.

We have more than 55 offices and manufacturing sites and approximately 13,000 employees. Over the past 13 years, Post has made 28+ acquisitions and innovative financial transactions and reached $8.2 billion in net sales in fiscal 2025. During turbulent times of market uncertainty, the food industry has provided a level of stability unlike other industries

Post Holdings, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Brentwood, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Our casual professional atmosphere encourages team members to collaborate, innovate and support our operating companies. Our passion and drive advance the reputation of our operating companies and brands—together, we make a difference.

The Sr Automation Engineer leverages technology platforms including workflow engines, automation platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and low-code solutions such as Power Automate to improve business process efficiency, accuracy, reliability, and scalability. Key to the success of this role beyond the technology platforms is leveraging business relationships and process understanding to help identify automation opportunities.

In addition, the role optimizes internal department functions including managing automation solution performance, streamlining performance and reliability, and maintaining alignment with governance standards across a working team. It is a chance to drive meaningful improvements that deliver tangible results.

• Responsible for the technical implementation of automation platforms and services at Post Holdings Corporate while also fostering and supporting Center of Excellence activities for all operating divisions to help drive automation adoption.
• Design, develop, and support corporate automations and engage with operating divisions to support and advance their automation development and resolve technology challenges.
• Develop procedures and governance models for automation practices, including documentation of use cases and data owner approvals for each data point and data source/target.
• Ensure processes are running in accordance with procedures, practices, and governance requirements.

• Work with functional users of various levels to gather business process requirements and develop quantifiable automation use cases.
• Identify, quantify, document, and design approved business processes for automation.
• Gather data related to technical implementations for demonstrating and driving return on investment, performance management, and improvement opportunities.

• Monitor implemented services to manage capacity, downtime, and outages.
• Troubleshoot automation issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement enhancements to improve performance, reliability, scalability, and user experience.
• Oversee the development, daily monitoring, testing, and deployment of solutions by both onshore and offshore team members, ensuring their work is prioritized, meets standards, and is successfully transitioned to production.
• Contribute technical input to strategy and platform lifecycle plans for enterprise automation services.

• Advise on data integrations, including data transformations, filtering, and lineage. This could be data flowing from an ERP or other enterprise systems.
• Document the architecture, connectivity, and data flow of solutions as required to support the Architecture Review Board and…