Process Engineer - Dry

Business Unit Overview

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 LinkedIn or 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

• Learn all key safety items related to plant operations.
• Develop technical mastery of the core production processes.
• Learn all inputs, outputs and transformations of the process.
• Learn how each basic component operates and its application in the process.
• Learn all product quality parameters and specifications, and how each is measured.
• Initiate and lead process and equipment improvements that will increase throughput, reduce scrap, improve quality and eliminate loss on the production lines.
• Work with Area Leaders, Team Leaders and Maintenance to understand key losses and opportunities.
• Review plant downtime regularly and lead efforts to reduce chronic downtime issues.
• Own the plant Centerline System.
• Identify key process variables and their impact on both the process and finished product quality. Help establish targets for key process variables.
• Develop process control strategies for finished product quality targets.
• Help train operating teams on operating procedures and methods as needed.
• Become the plant Problem Solving champion. Lead go-see-think-do (GSTD) teams to improve problem solving culture on-site.
• Learn continuous improvement problem solving tools (e.g. why-why, fishbone, failure analysis, etc.) and understand which is appropriate for a given problem.
• Coach and train others on effective use of problem solving.
• Support and/or lead initiative and capital projects as needed.
• Participate as a project team member for key projects.
• Lead portions of the CQV (Commissioning/Qualification/Verification) process including start-up leader.
  
  
  

REPORTS TO: Engineering Manager

Qualifications

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required

Food & Beverage or Medical manufacturing experience is preferred (this includes internship and/or co-op experience)

DESIRED SKILLS/CAPABILITIES (must be able to learn skills not already mastered)

• Works effectively with individuals and teams
• Programming (ladder logic/PLCs, Python, VBA, SQL) & basic electrical troubleshooting
• Problem solving – demonstrated ability to work a problem from problem statement development thru to root cause identification and systemic corrective action implementation
• Design of Experiments and/or CQV – demonstrated ability to design and execute experiments and/or develop and execute Commissioning/Qualification/Verification plans
• Daily Management Systems (DMS) – demonstrated ability to leverage daily management approach to own and manage a system to sustain delivery of expected results over time
• Statistical lot quality analysis – demonstrated ability to develop a sampling plan, sample, analyze and draw statistically based conclusions
• Initiative and follow thru – demonstrated ability to receive given basic coaching/direction and execute work assigned in an accurate and timely manner
• Time management/prioritization – demonstrated ability to manage several tasks at a time thru to completion and meet the needs of multiple customers
• Communication skills – proven ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally