Engineering Administrator

Dessert Holdings is the leading premium dessert company in the world. We craft artisanal, scratch-made desserts at scale, combining culinary innovation with the finest real ingredients. With a rich heritage spanning seven distinctive brands, we bring unmatched expertise and tailored solutions to our Retail and Foodservice partners.

Dessert Holdings is looking for an Engineering Administrator to provide administrative support, guidance, and training to the Engineering team. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this individual will identify opportunities to eliminate transactional waste while achieving strategic objectives and ensuring audit preparation.

Ideally, this individual would be based near one of our facilities in Aurora, CO or Humble, TX, or near company headquarters in St. Paul, MN.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and report on capital program project list, including the creation and maintenance of slide decks for project and budget status reporting.
• Update and report on cash flow for capital programs, taking into account program changes.
• Create tools to provide visibility for timely decision making and communication.
• Aid in the purchase requisitions and receipt of goods and services, maintaining tight coordination with the Accounting and Finance teams to ensure adherence with capitalization policies.
• Facilitate NDA’s and equipment purchase agreements.
• Act as Engineering Department subject matter expert in use of Power BI and utilize the tool to aid in forecasting and financial reporting.
• Act as Engineering Department Subject Matter Expert in use of D365 - financial, billing, invoice tracking and reporting.
  
  

Qualifications

• 2- or 4-year degree (ideally in a STEM-related field, demonstrating the ability to understand technical concepts), or equivalent years of experience
• Strong Excel skills to drive formula creation, detailed analysis, report generation and activity tracking
• 2 years of professional work experience, ideally including administrative support for project management, financial tracking, document management, and creating/updating/delivering reports
• Hands on approach to problem solving with ability to generate creative solutions
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities to support group commitments to goals and objectives.
• Understand business implications of decisions, aligns work with strategic goals
• Ability to prioritize and plan work activities, set and meet goals, timelines and objectives.
  
  

About Dessert Holdings

Dessert Holdings is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands: The Original Cakerie, Lawler’s Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company, Steven Charles, Dianne’s Fine Desserts, Kenny’s Great Pies, and Willamette Valley Pie Company. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital, is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, employs more than 3,500 people across ten manufacturing facilities, and is continuing its journey of rapid growth.

EEO Statement

Dessert Holdings and its related entities provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other characteristics protected by law.