What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Development Engineer – Pet R&D position at Post Consumer Brands and Careers?
Business Unit Overview:
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:
: The pay range for this position is $70,386 - $98,541 per year.
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 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:
The Process Development Engineer II – Pet R&D will be responsible for developing, optimizing, and implementing proprietary process technologies and equipment for our innovation roadmap as well as the improvement of existing process, value engineering, and technology development to enable new product development or cost. This role will drive process development for innovation from concept through commercialization, by participating on cross-functional teams resulting in meeting company goals for new pet food or snacks / innovation, cost savings, and quality improvements.
- Support/Lead the development, scale-up, and commercialization of Innovation, Renovation & Value Engineering initiatives. Assure that all process activities meet company cost capacity, quality, marketing and product development requirements.
- Lead commissioning and support Operations with qualification of new product & process technologies, as well as improving existing process technologies.
- Develop standard operating procedures, manufacturing specifications etc. and communicate effectively with key stakeholders in manufacturing, copacker etc.
- Apply fundamental engineering principles - mass & energy balances, heat transfer, designed experimentation & data analyses, process flow diagrams etc. for appropriate decision making and documentation for knowledge capture.
- Interface with equipment suppliers, service providers, manufacturing facilities and relevant business functions, including marketing and supply chain, to achieve goals.
- Assess, with guidance, legal and environmental aspects, and patent opportunities, for new technologies/processes.
- Collect and analyze data from suppliers, plant operations, customers, and consumers.
- Design and execute experiments at both supplier sites and in plant operations.
- Validate improvements/corrective actions that will deliver the desired benefits.
Education: BS in Engineering is required, Chemical Engineering is preferred
Experience: 2-4 years of relevant experience in Research and Development is required.
Desired: Experience in pet food processing, including extrusion and retorted food products is desired.
Skills: Demonstrated problem-solving skills. Proven innovation and creativity. Ability to work effectively in team-based environment with multiple functional groups, in a collaborative and positive manner. Excellent communication skills. Ability to achieve results and execute multiple simultaneous projects.
Project Management Skills: Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to organize and manage projects; interact, support, facilitate and lead multi-functional work teams; ability to lead team to a consensus; strong negotiation skills. Ability to manage multiple projects, in a fast-paced environment, meeting deadlines, and communicating status.
Travel: Initially could be 40-50 % due to onboarding; steady state would be up to 30%
Physical Ability to lift 50 lbs.
: The pay range for this position is $70,386 - $98,541 per year.
Salary : $70,386 - $98,541