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Manufacturing Engineering Apprentice

Post Holdings Inc. • Battle Creek, MI • 7h ago

Brand: Post Consumer Brands

Categories: Operations Administrative

Locations: Battle Creek, Michigan

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Remote Eligible: No

Req ID: 29275

Job Description

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

Post Consumer Brands offers a robust summer immersive & transformative internship experience that will present you with a meaningful business problem to ideate and collaborate cross-functionally that will lead to you presenting recommended solutions to improve the business. Post Consumer Brands is unique as our core values & mission is at the forefront of our efforts. Consider joining our team to launch the success story of your career journey.

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

· Best Practice Implementation. Improvement of Process. Application of new technology and equipment to improve process.

· Support technical training for Operations Specialists (trainers), and provide technical oversight.

· Provide daily support to sustain current process performance targets for safety, quality, yield, rate and efficiency.

· Lead efforts to improve current process to achieve planned goals and targets.

· Support data collection and reporting systems that enable process consistency and process improvement efforts. Support meaningful and accurate data from people and process instrumentation.

· Identify and recommend new and innovative equipment technologies that support process improvements and projects.

· Support cost reduction changes related to ingredient, materials and finished product.

· Lead small capital projects.

· Coordinate with internal and external resources commercializing new products.

· Support ongoing efforts to sustain process and product attributes related to finished product taste.

· Provide engineering support for safety improvements.

Qualifications

Requirements:

· Understanding of Lean Manufacturing/Continuous Improvement methodologies.

· Must have strong analytical and business judgment including demonstrated problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills.

· Ability to influence, mentor and coach to get results through others.

· Results driven for being the low cost producer and supporting company growth strategies.

· Have strong bias for action, while proving the ability to inspire others.

· Convey high level of optimism while setting aggressive targets to teams, finding ways to achieve them.

· Communicates a compelling vision and inspired sense of purpose. Talks about the possibilities and is optimistic. Creates strong morale and spirit within team.

· Solves highly complex problems and prioritizes actions in a timely manner. Probes all sources for answers and can quickly sense what will help resolve issues.

· Establish clear directions, sets stretching objectives. Lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner and brings out the best in people through leveraging their strengths.

· Speaks candidly and provides constructive feedback in a professional manner.

· Organizes and manages projects; interacts, supports, facilitates and leads multi-functional work teams; leads teams to consensus; strong negotiation skills.

· Able to build strong and diverse relationships across the business groups they partner with. Supports and fosters change.

· Demonstrates a passion for safety. Able to develop and maintain a respectful and safe work environment.

EDUCATION:

Attainment of 4-year degree in accredited engineering program is required.

EXPERIENCE:

Minimum 5 years' experience in a cereal manufacturing industry.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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