• Job Description

  Req#: 27819
  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 Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. 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 www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook for the latest news.
  
  Brand
  
  
  At Post Consumer Brands, we’ve spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story. As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and, more recently, pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we’ve extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof.
  
  This phase is still new, and that’s what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we’re looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.
  
  Location Description
  
  
  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 cereal, PEBBLES cereal, Grape-Nuts and Honeycomb 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.
  
  Responsibilities
  
  
  Responsibilities and Accountabilities :
  • Best Practice Implementation. Improvement of Process. Application of new technology and equipment to improve process.
  • Support technical training for Process Operators and provide technical oversight.
  • Provide daily support to sustain current process performance targets for safety, quality, yield, rate and efficiency.
  • Lead efforts to improve current process to achieve planned goals and targets.
  • Support data collection and reporting systems that enable process consistency and process improvement efforts. Support meaningful and accurate data from people and process instrumentation.
  • Identify and recommend new and innovative equipment technologies that support process improvements and projects.
  • Support cost reduction changes related to ingredient, materials and finished product.
  • Lead small capital projects.
  • Coordinate with internal and external resources commercializing new products.
  • Support ongoing efforts to sustain process and product attributes related to finished product taste.
  • Provide engineering support for safety improvements.
  Requirements:
  • Understanding of Lean Manufacturing/Continuous Improvement methodologies.
  • Must have strong analytical and business judgment including demonstrated problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills.
  • Ability to influence, mentor and coach to get results through others.
  • Results driven for being the low cost producer and supporting company growth strategies.
  • Have strong bias for action, while proving the ability to inspire others.
  • Convey high level of optimism while setting aggressive targets to teams, finding ways to achieve them.
  • Communicates a compelling vision and inspired sense of purpose. Talks about the possibilities and is optimistic. Creates strong morale and spirit within team.
  • Solves highly complex problems and prioritizes actions in a timely manner. Probes all sources for answers and can quickly sense what will help resolve issues.
  • Establish clear directions, sets stretching objectives. Lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner and brings out the best in people through leveraging their strengths.
  • Speaks candidly and provides constructive feedback in a professional manner.
  • Organizes and manages projects; interacts, supports, facilitates and leads multi-functional work teams; leads teams to consensus; strong negotiation skills.
  • Able to build strong and diverse relationships across the business groups they partner with. Supports and fosters change.
  • Demonstrates a passion for safety. Able to develop and maintain a respectful and safe work environment.
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  EDUCATION:
  4-year degree in science or engineering.
  EXPERIENCE:
  5 years plus manufacturing related experience in process engineering and/or process development. Experience in the food industry or consumer products is preferred.
  Post Holdings and Post Consumer Brands provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.
  
  
  EDUCATION:
  4-year degree in science or engineering.
  EXPERIENCE:
  5 years plus manufacturing related experience in process engineering and/or process development. Experience in the food industry or consumer products is preferred.
  Post Holdings and Post Consumer Brands provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.
  
  
  Responsibilities and Accountabilities :
  • Best Practice Implementation. Improvement of Process. Application of new technology and equipment to improve process.
  • Support technical training for Process Operators and provide technical oversight.
  • Provide daily support to sustain current process performance targets for safety, quality, yield, rate and efficiency.
  • Lead efforts to improve current process to achieve planned goals and targets.
  • Support data collection and reporting systems that enable process consistency and process improvement efforts. Support meaningful and accurate data from people and process instrumentation.
  • Identify and recommend new and innovative equipment technologies that support process improvements and projects.
  • Support cost reduction changes related to ingredient, materials and finished product.
  • Lead small capital projects.
  • Coordinate with internal and external resources commercializing new products.
  • Support ongoing efforts to sustain process and product attributes related to finished product taste.
  • Provide engineering support for safety improvements.
  Requirements:
  • Understanding of Lean Manufacturing/Continuous Improvement methodologies.
  • Must have strong analytical and business judgment including demonstrated problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills.
  • Ability to influence, mentor and coach to get results through others.
  • Results driven for being the low cost producer and supporting company growth strategies.
  • Have strong bias for action, while proving the ability to inspire others.
  • Convey high level of optimism while setting aggressive targets to teams, finding ways to achieve them.
  • Communicates a compelling vision and inspired sense of purpose. Talks about the possibilities and is optimistic. Creates strong morale and spirit within team.
  • Solves highly complex problems and prioritizes actions in a timely manner. Probes all sources for answers and can quickly sense what will help resolve issues.
  • Establish clear directions, sets stretching objectives. Lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner and brings out the best in people through leveraging their strengths.
  • Speaks candidly and provides constructive feedback in a professional manner.
  • Organizes and manages projects; interacts, supports, facilitates and leads multi-functional work teams; leads teams to consensus; strong negotiation skills.
  • Able to build strong and diverse relationships across the business groups they partner with. Supports and fosters change.
  • Demonstrates a passion for safety. Able to develop and maintain a respectful and safe work environment.

• About the company

  Post Holdings is an American consumer packaged goods holding company headquartered in the suburban St.

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