Manufacturing Process & Packaging Engineer - ...

POSITION OVERVIEWThe Manufacturing Process & Packaging Engineer (interally called a Senior Systems Engineer) role provides technical leadership and serves as a system and product specialist. They are responsible to build the team's processing technical skills through a hands-on approach. They are accountable for the operational foundational systems across systems they own and to the plant to secure basic conditions and drive out losses with the platform team. This role will be focused on Chex Processing at the Cincinnati plant. The Cincinnati plant is part of the Morning Foods operating unit, servicing the cereal business. The plant has four processing systems (two batch lattice, one twin screw hybrid, and one twin screw direct expanded), with each system feeding packaging lines. The plant operates 3-crew structure with traditional 8-hour shifts. It is a union workforce and is part of the BCTGM local 256G.The Senior Systems Engineer plays a critical role to continuously improve by optimizing system performance and product quality while driving strategic productivity and capacity solutions for the platform and ultimately the business. This level showcases a Sr. Systems Engineer's knowledge and foundation to build the capability of others. This role centers on consistent manufacturing performance, problem-solving, and improvement. It involves significant floor time to understand manufacturing processes, coupled with development within the Systems Engineering JTA. The primary focus is improvement and loss elimination activities aligned with system glidepath and future state goals. This includes supporting team skill development inclusive of content development and talent assessments, and advocating for system investments, articulating their financial impact to plant leadership for annual planning. As knowledge expands, credibility as a strategic partner with Engineering, Ops and ITQ will increase. This will allow more intentional focus on other systems and to engage in business plans.To learn more about our Cincinnati plant and surrounding area click hereKEY ACCOUNTABILITIESSafetyLead food and human safety through Safety 2.0 leadership principles and standardsCultivate Human Safety Culture that reduces risk to our people and communities by increasing capability to proactively discuss, identify and control riskCultivate Food Safety Culture that is committed to manufacturing safe food that is compliant with policy and regulatory requirementsPeople Leadership and Capability BuildingCommunicate and engage effectively with teams across the full siteRegularly engage with corporate engineering, R&D and business teams to advocate for their system current and future stateProvide early level coaching to early tenure Systems Engineers and plant personnel (MEA, Operations Leaders, etc.)Support L&D assessments and content developmentAt the site level partner with leadership to advocate for system investmentProcess Leadership and OwnershipResponsible to lead the execution of Loss Tree and Glidepath efforts, building team skills around glidepath developmentExecute loss elimination tasks to improve system and equipment reliability through use of continuous improvement processes and problem solvingBuild learnings into training materials and coaching of the operating team members to increase capability of the broader teamExecute and identify of HMM initiativesActively improve the data and information of the system to increase the ability to model and predict opportunity areas (performance metrics, financial information, data historian, maintenance management system).Operations Foundational Systems:Accountable for the operational foundation systems across the platform to secure basic conditions and drive out losses (Clean-Inspect-Lubricate CIL, Centerlines CL and Theory of Operation TOO)

Created: 2026-01-05