Manufacturing Engineering Apprentice

Post Consumer Brands•Battle Creek, MI

23d•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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.

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.
Attainment of 4-year degree in accredited engineering program is required.
Minimum 5 years' experience in a cereal manufacturing industry.

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.