Reliability Technician I

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 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.

Location Description

Northfield, Minn. is home to two Post Consumer Brands manufacturing plants, the Campbell Mill and Ames Mill, two distribution centers, and more than 750 team members. The Campbell Mill plant is 1 million square feet and is home to 7 manufacturing technologies to produce a wide variety of cereal products our customers know and love. Northfield is a town steeped in history, featuring two colleges and the original Ames Mill where the Malt-O-Meal Company got its start.

Responsibilities

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Position Overview

Maximize asset reliability to ensure the plant meets sales and operation plan. Prioritize and plan work orders. Determine threats to equipment reliability and develop plans to address them. Support Operations and Engineering to grow with reliability in mind. Complete job duties in a manner that supports all plant safety, quality, food safety, and environmental practices.

Core Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Demonstrate and ensure safe work practices.
• Support, implement, and maintain food safety practices as required through SQF.
• Plan work orders including part selection and development of work plans.
• Maximize line work completed on maintenance days and during runs.
• Manage maintenance projects using internal and external resources.
• Proactively identify failures using experience and partnerships with predictive maintenance techs and operations personnel.
• Track and report mean time between failures and develop improvement strategy for bad actors. Report this strategy to operations and maintenance leadership.
• Perform maintenance and troubleshoot equipment when the reactive team needs support.
  
  
  

As Needed Responsibilities And General Requirements

• Work with Project Managers and Engineers on equipment purchases, modifications, and projects to ensure systems are reliable and maintainable.
• Lead and maintain the site’s reliability strategy (criticality analysis, PM optimization, training, etc.).
• Work with Maintenance and Continuous improvement on problem solving events (Go See Think Dos, 8 Steps, 5-S, Center-lining, etc).
• Review and provide reliability feedback to Operations Supervisors and Team Members on operating procedures.
• Work with Supervisors, Maintenance Technicians, and Team Members to improve understanding and application of reliability principles.
• Ability to work in a team environment. Demonstrates strong communication skills and a focus on customer service.
• Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and overtime as needed.
• 24/7 On-call
• Manual dexterity for delicate work. Frequently stoop, squat, twist, reach, climb stairs while performing job duties.
• Ability to lift and carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Work in all plant areas and outside the plant which can include heights up to 30 ft, working on ladders, confined spaces and catwalks. Exposure to extreme heat and cold, humidity, fumes, gases, odors and dust. Exposure to high noise levels. Work around moving machinery that is electrically and mechanically hazardous. Also work with highly combustible or potentially explosive equipment.
• Comfortable wearing Post Consumer Brands' uniform and required PPE including but not limited to: bump-cap, hair net, beard net, safety glasses, ear plugs, gloves, steel-toed shoes, etc.
• Performs all other miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
  
  
  

Qualifications

EDUCATION:

• A post-secondary degree is preferred, consisting of a minimum 2 years vocational training in a maintenance or engineering related field.
• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Technician (CMRT) preferred
  
  
  

Experience

• Prefer five or more years of engineering or maintenance experience in a food processing plant environment.
• Thoroughly understand and follow all OSHA and Company safety regulations as they relate to the maintenance field (LOTO, CSE, PPE, etc.).
• Understanding of Reliability Centered Maintenance.
• Able to achieve results while simultaneously executing multiple projects.
• Comprehensive understanding of CMMS and Microsoft Office programs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in a customer service environment.
• Able to work effectively in a team-based environment with multiple functional groups.
  
  
  

Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.

The pay range for this position is $41.75 to $41.75 per hour.