Process Development Engineer – Pet R&D at Post Holdings in Lakeville, MN

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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 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 Process Development Engineer – Pet R&D Lakeville, Minnesota | Hybrid Big Company Opportunity. Small Company Attitude. At Post Consumer Brands, you’ll have the resources to do big things and the close-knit culture to see your handprint on the work. Our pet portfolio is an exciting part of how we make delicious, high-quality food accessible for all. We’re looking for a Process Development Engineer – Pet R&D who is passionate about food science, food processing, pet food development, and turning innovative ideas into scalable manufacturing solutions . This is an opportunity for an engineer who wants to do more than maintain existing processes. You’ll help develop, optimize, scale and commercialize food and pet food processes , working at the intersection of R&D, engineering and manufacturing. From pilot trials and experimentation to equipment commissioning and plant-scale production, you’ll help turn ideas into products families trust and pets love. If you have experience developing food products or processes and enjoy solving complex manufacturing challenges, we want to hear from you. What You’ll Do Develop & Scale Food and Pet Food Innovation Lead and support process development, scale-up and commercialization for new pet food and snack products, renovations, value engineering and productivity initiatives. Translate product concepts into reliable, commercially scalable manufacturing processes. Design and execute plant and supplier trials, analyze results, troubleshoot challenges and validate solutions. Apply food-processing and engineering principles to optimize quality, cost, capacity, manufacturability and product performance . Build Better Processes & Technologies Develop, optimize and implement proprietary processing technologies and equipment that support our pet innovation roadmap. Lead commissioning activities and partner with Operations to qualify new products, equipment and process technologies. Improve existing manufacturing processes through value engineering, experimentation, data analysis and technology development. Apply mass and energy balances, heat transfer principles, designed experiments, process flow diagrams and analytical methods to solve complex process challenges. Turn R&D Into Commercial Reality Move ideas from concept and experimentation through scale-up and commercialization . Create manufacturing specifications, standard operating procedures and technical documentation that enable consistent execution across manufacturing facilities and co-packers. Partner with equipment manufacturers, suppliers and service providers to evaluate and implement new capabilities. Identify potential patent opportunities as well as legal and environmental c