Engineer

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 9Lives 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 www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedInor 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 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.

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.

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 attributes consumers (and pets) count on.

What We’re Looking For

Basics

• Bachelor’s degree (4‑year) in engineering.
• 2–5 years of manufacturing experience in process engineering and/or process development (food or consumer products experience is a plus).
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing / Continuous Improvement methodologies.

Skills that set you apart

• Strong analytical judgment and structured problem solving/troubleshooting.
• Ability to influence, mentor, and coach—getting results through others.
• Organized project execution: set direction, prioritize actions, and drive progress with cross‑functional teams.
• Bias for action paired with safe, thoughtful decision‑making and a demonstrated passion for safety.

Preferred background

• Chemical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering (or an equivalent technical background with strong, hands‑on manufacturing/process improvement experience).

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Your work has a visible handprint. You’ll have the resources of a large organization and the close‑knit culture where your improvements show up in daily performance.
• Meaningful impact, every day. You’ll help deliver our purpose—making delicious food accessible—through safer, more capable, more reliable processes.
• Beloved brands & real-world problems. You’ll improve the systems that make products families know and trust.
• Benefits that support you. Paid time off, health benefits, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance programs, and a 401(k).

Location: On‑site in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Pay: Pay Range: will be determined based on level of experience, skills and impact. We are hiring Engineers I, II and III. The Pay range listed below is for an Engineer III.

Ready to Make an Impact

If you’re energized by getting close to the work, solving real problems, and building healthier processes that perform day after day, we’d love to meet you. Apply today and bring your ideas, your curiosity, and your drive to a team where you can do big things and see the results.