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.
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 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.
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:Lakeville, Minnesota | Hybrid
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, high-quality food accessible for all. We’re looking for a Process Development Engineer – Pet R&D who is passionate about food science, food processing, pet food development, and turning innovative ideas into scalable manufacturing solutions.
This is an opportunity for an engineer who wants to do more than maintain existing processes. You’ll help develop, optimize, scale and commercialize food and pet food processes, working at the intersection of R&D, engineering and manufacturing. From pilot trials and experimentation to equipment commissioning and plant-scale production, you’ll help turn ideas into products families trust and pets love.
If you have experience developing food products or processes and enjoy solving complex manufacturing challenges, we want to hear from you.
We’re particularly interested in candidates who combine strong engineering fundamentals with hands-on food or pet food product and process development experience.
See your work become real.
Your projects won’t stop at the lab. You’ll help take technology and products through trials, scale-up and commercial manufacturing.
Build the future of pet food.
Use your food-processing and engineering expertise to help develop the processes behind innovative pet food and snack products.
Solve interesting technical problems.
Bring together experimentation, data, engineering fundamentals and creative thinking to solve challenges involving product quality, processing, cost and manufacturing capability.
Make a visible impact.
You’ll have the resources and reach of a larger organization while working in an environment where your ideas, technical expertise and individual contributions can make a noticeable difference.
Lakeville, Minnesota | Hybrid
Hybrid and on-site expectations may vary based on project and manufacturing needs.
Because this is a hands-on process development role, travel is an important part of the position. Travel is expected at approximately 40–50% during onboarding and up to 30% at steady state to support manufacturing facilities, suppliers, equipment partners and project trials.
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
If you’re an engineer with a passion for food development, pet food innovation and manufacturing technology, this is an opportunity to help shape how great pet food gets made.
Bring your curiosity, engineering expertise and hands-on approach to Post Consumer Brands and help us turn promising ideas into scalable processes and products that make it all the way to the shelf.
Big company opportunity. Small company attitude. Come make your mark.
| Location | Lakeville, Minnesota |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Salary | $70,386–$98,541 Per Year |
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