What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reliability Engineer position at Post Consumer Brands?
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
Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Mich., the cereal capital of the U.S., is the company's largest manufacturing plant and home to about 600 team members. When you join the team here, you'll be helping to produce some of the most iconic cereal brands, including Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, PEBBLES cereal, Grape-Nuts and Honeycomb cereal. The Battle Creek plant is also unique as it is home to the original barn where C.W. Post started the Postum cereal company in 1895. The Battle Creek team has deep community roots, supporting the city's Cereal Festival, The Post Foundation, and participating in several volunteer events throughout the year.
Responsibilities
About the Role
At Post Consumer Brands, reliability is more than preventing downtime, it’s building a smarter, more resilient operation. As a Reliability Engineer, you’ll be the go‑to partner for maintenance and operations, using data plus hands‑on mechanical understanding to spot risk early, prioritize the right work, and strengthen equipment performance day after day.
You’ll blend “in-the-trenches” maintenance knowledge with proactive reliability practices, turning breakdown learnings into prevention, and translating condition insights into action.
Key Responsibilities
Why You’ll Love This Role
If you’re a hands‑on, data‑driven problem solver who wants to prevent the next failure—not just respond to it—this is your chance to build reliability that lasts. Bring your curiosity, your mechanical know‑how, and your bias for action—and help us keep our operations running strong.
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
Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Mich., the cereal capital of the U.S., is the company's largest manufacturing plant and home to about 600 team members. When you join the team here, you'll be helping to produce some of the most iconic cereal brands, including Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, PEBBLES cereal, Grape-Nuts and Honeycomb cereal. The Battle Creek plant is also unique as it is home to the original barn where C.W. Post started the Postum cereal company in 1895. The Battle Creek team has deep community roots, supporting the city's Cereal Festival, The Post Foundation, and participating in several volunteer events throughout the year.
Responsibilities
About the Role
At Post Consumer Brands, reliability is more than preventing downtime, it’s building a smarter, more resilient operation. As a Reliability Engineer, you’ll be the go‑to partner for maintenance and operations, using data plus hands‑on mechanical understanding to spot risk early, prioritize the right work, and strengthen equipment performance day after day.
You’ll blend “in-the-trenches” maintenance knowledge with proactive reliability practices, turning breakdown learnings into prevention, and translating condition insights into action.
Key Responsibilities
- Use equipment health and performance data to identify issues early, recommend fixes, and help teams prioritize the most impactful work.
- Partner with maintenance/operations to reduce repeat failures through root cause problem solving and continuous improvement habits.
- Support daily/weekly execution by contributing to the maintenance plan and schedule (including routine reporting and prioritization inputs).
- Leverage asset/CMMS tools to turn information into clear, practical decisions for the floor.
- Apply and promote condition‑based reliability thinking to drive uptime and stability.
- Serve as an owner/champion for reliability priorities within assigned areas—helping teams understand current condition, what “good” looks like, and what to tackle next.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering preferred, but we’re casting a wide net for the right problem‑solver. This could be a traditional engineer, or a seasoned maintenance professional ready to step into a reliability‑focused role.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment with strong mechanical understanding; food manufacturing exposure is a plus.
- Typically 5 years in maintenance systems, reliability/asset health work, or maintenance supervision/leadership.
- Data‑oriented and process‑minded—able to justify priorities with evidence and communicate recommendations clearly.
- Self‑motivated, proactive, and solutions‑driven (you identify problems, build a plan, and drive it to completion).
- Comfortable collaborating across functions—working with trades, engineers, and operations to solve problems together.
- This is an individual contributor role.
Why You’ll Love This Role
- Make your handprint visible. You’ll be trusted to run with meaningful work—not stuck in meetings all day—and you’ll see the results of your improvements on the floor.
- Big company opportunity. Small company attitude. You’ll have strong resources behind you, plus the flexibility and ownership to do your best work.
- Cross‑functional impact. Work side‑by‑side with maintenance, process engineering, operations, and other partners to improve how the plant runs.
- Growth runway. This role can be a strong path toward broader engineering or maintenance leadership opportunities.
- Purpose you can feel. We’re here to make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all—and reliability is a key part of delivering that promise every day.
- This role is designed for on‑site partnership with maintenance and operations teams, with daily presence in the plant environment.
- Schedule: 6:30AM–2:30PM
- Travel is not specifically defined; work may require moving between assigned plant areas/teams based on business need.
- Pay Range: will be determined based on level of experience, skills and impact. We are hiring Engineers I, II and III. The Pay range listed below is for an Engineer III.
If you’re a hands‑on, data‑driven problem solver who wants to prevent the next failure—not just respond to it—this is your chance to build reliability that lasts. Bring your curiosity, your mechanical know‑how, and your bias for action—and help us keep our operations running strong.