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 recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.
At Post Consumer Brands, we take pride in our longstanding legacy of making one of every five breakfast cereals families eat daily. Today, we’re just as focused on our future as we expand our grocery business with different shelf-stable foods, including snacks and peanut butter. We are committed to providing accessible and delicious food for families, and we’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio. As we soar to new heights, we need creative, determined individuals from all walks of life to join our team, where your unique perspective and ideas are acknowledged and valued. Be a part of a company that empowers you to make a difference that’s evident on grocery store shelves and families’ tables across North America.
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:

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of plant maintenance or operations experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.

• Plan, manage, organize, schedule, and coordinate work activities of the maintenance department and contractors to meet production needs.
• Understand, analyze, and drive key performance metrics to ensure the highest level of equipment availability.
• Monitor the progress of maintenance activities to ensure assignments are completed.
• Direct department activities including supervising staff and resources, assigning projects, identifying, and communicating constraints, setting priorities, and conflict resolution.
• Act as a contact between production, engineering, quality, sanitation, PST, and maintenance to resolve equipment and maintenance issues.
• Work cooperatively as a part of the Maintenance Department leadership team to support preventive maintenance strategies, MRO excellence, department strategic plans, and other maintenance functions.
• Provide direction and supervision to direct reports, along with general administrative supervision of indirect reports.
• Interview, hire, oversee training, and conduct performance reviews.
• Enforce all Post Consumer Brands and Post Holdings policies and procedures.
• Assist in solving maintenance and repair problems, find solutions to crises, and plan crisis prevention.
• Serve as backup for other Maintenance Supervisors and Maintenance Manager.
• Assist maintenance staff in any area as required and handle assigned special projects.
• Provide input to engineering on equipment design.
• Assist in training production staff where maintenance input is needed.
• Plan, budget, organize, and coordinate building and equipment projects.
• Provide input to production scheduling to allow maintenance work on equipment.
• Assist in the development of new equipment and operating procedures.
• Set priorities for maintenance activities.
• Provide consulting and technical services to all company departments in areas of technical services and maintenance.
• All duties as assigned.
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