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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.
Location Description:
The Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania facility proudly produces iconic pet food brands like 9Lives®, Gravy Train®, and Kibbles 'n Bits®. This location also features an on-site Distribution Center, ensuring efficient delivery of products to customers.
Bloomsburg is home to Bloomsburg University, a municipal airport, and a landmark Town Park offering acres of recreational activities. The town also hosts one of the largest and longest-running fairs in the country. With so much to do and see, Bloomsburg is a great place to live, work, and play!
Responsibilities:
Big company opportunity. Small company attitude. At Post Consumer Brands, we’re looking for someone who wants to make a visible impact in manufacturing—someone who is energized by solving problems, improving processes, building strong relationships, and helping teams perform at their best. This role is a chance to build technical mastery, lead meaningful improvement work, and contribute to a culture that values safety, growth, and hands-on ownership.
About the Role
As a Process Engineer, you’ll help strengthen plant performance by learning the operation end to end, identifying improvement opportunities, and leading work that increases throughput, reduces scrap, improves quality, and eliminates losses on the production lines. You’ll partner closely with operations, maintenance, and plant leadership while helping drive a strong problem-solving culture on site. This role reports to the Engineering Manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Learn key safety items related to plant operations and develop technical mastery of the core production processes.
- Build strong knowledge of process inputs, outputs, transformations, equipment components, and quality parameters/specifications.
- Initiate and lead process and equipment improvements that increase throughput, reduce scrap, improve quality, and eliminate loss on the production lines.
- Partner with Area Leaders, Team Leaders, and Maintenance to understand key losses and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Drive excellence as a capital project team member and lead portions of the CQV process, including start-up leadership.
- Own the plant Centerline System and help establish targets for key process variables that affect process performance and finished product quality.
- Help train operating teams on procedures and methods as needed.
- Serve as the plant’s problem-solving leader by driving go-see-think-do initiatives and coaching team members on effective problem-solving tools and methodologies.
Why You’ll Love This Role
- You’ll have the chance to do big things in a role where your work can have a clear, visible impact on plant performance and finished product quality.
- You’ll join a company that offers big company opportunity with a small company attitude—meaningful career growth alongside an inviting culture.
- You’ll work in an environment that emphasizes safety, growth, and skill development.
- You’ll have the opportunity to lead improvements, champion problem solving, and help shape how work gets done—not just support it.
- You’ll be part of a company that values diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds and is driven by a purpose to make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all.
Location
This role is based in Bloomsburg, PA.
Ready to Make an Impact
If you’re ready to apply your engineering knowledge in a hands-on manufacturing environment, lead meaningful process improvements, and grow your career with a company that offers big opportunities and a people-first culture, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and discover where you fit in at Post Consumer Brands.
Qualifications:
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required
- Food & Beverage or Medical manufacturing experience preferred, including internship and/or co-op experience
- Ability to work effectively with individuals and teams
- Exposure to programming and troubleshooting skills such as ladder logic/PLCs, Python, VBA, SQL, and basic electrical troubleshooting
- Strong problem-solving capability, including root cause identification and systemic corrective action implementation
- Experience with Design of Experiments and/or CQV planning and execution
- Familiarity with Daily Management Systems and statistical lot quality analysis
- Demonstrated initiative, follow-through, time management, prioritization, and communication skills