Plant Technical Director

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 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™, PEBBLES™, 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

At Post Consumer Brands, we make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. We offer the best of both worlds: big company opportunity and small company attitude, with room to make a visible impact, grow your career, and leave your handprint on the work.

Our Battle Creek, Michigan plant is the company’s largest manufacturing site and home to about 600 team members producing some of our most iconic cereal brands. This is a high-visibility leadership opportunity to shape the technical future of the site and help position the plant for long-term success.

About the Role

The Plant Technical Director leads the technical direction of the Battle Creek plant, with responsibility across engineering, maintenance, and broader technical strategy for the site. This role partners closely with operations leadership to ensure the plant has the systems, processes, and long-term technical foundations needed to execute at a high level today and into the future.

This is a strategic leadership role with broad organizational scope with 130+ people across multiple technical departments including maintenance, process engineering, project management, and controls engineering. You’ll help shape the site’s long-term capabilities while influencing performance, people development, and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the strategic technical direction for the plant across engineering, maintenance, and long-range site readiness.
• Ensure the right systems, processes, and capabilities are in place so the site can execute reliably and improve over time.
• Lead plant performance improvement through a focus on runtime, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and cost per pound.
• Build and develop technical leadership bench strength, including succession capability within the organization
• Advance value stream engineering and process capability thinking across the plant to drive stronger end-to-end technical and operational performance.
• Partner across functions to move the site forward with strong technical judgment, leadership discipline, and a future-focused mindset.

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering strongly preferred, ideally in chemical, electrical, mechanical, or a similarly rigorous engineering discipline. Degree in Management or other science required.
• Ability to relocation for future roles within the network, for your future growth and development.
• Strong technical leadership experience paired with operational credibility in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience that reflects more than capital projects alone, with backgrounds such as process engineering, process engineering supervision, operations management, or similar technical/operations leadership paths viewed favorably.
• Strong preference for experience working in a union environment.
• A leader who understands how to improve plant performance while developing others and building capability for the future.
• Someone energized by value stream engineering, end-to-end process thinking, and continuous improvement.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• This is a chance to make a visible impact at one of Post Consumer Brands’ most important manufacturing sites.
• The role offers significant scope and influence, with responsibility for major technical functions and the opportunity to shape long-term site performance.
• Success in this role can create a meaningful path toward future site leadership and broader manufacturing leadership opportunities throughout the network.
• You’ll be part of a company that combines strong resources, beloved brands, and meaningful career growth with an inviting, small-company culture.
• We’re looking for people with big ambitions, big hearts, and the desire to make a big difference.

Location & Travel

• Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
• Relocation support is available for this role.
• Travel to corporate and other sites as needed (10% or less)

Ready to Make an Impact

If you’re a strategic technical leader who thrives on improving performance, building strong teams, and creating the conditions for long-term success, we’d love to hear from you. Join Post Consumer Brands and discover a role where your leadership can shape what’s next — for the plant, for the business, and for your career.

At Post Consumer Brands, we make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. We offer the best of both worlds: big company opportunity and small company attitude, with room to make a visible impact, grow your career, and leave your handprint on the work.

Our Battle Creek, Michigan plant is the company's largest manufacturing site and home to about 600 team members producing some of our most iconic cereal brands. This is a high-visibility leadership opportunity to shape the technical future of the site and help position the plant for long-term success.

About the Role

The Plant Technical Director leads the technical direction of the Battle Creek plant, with responsibility across engineering, maintenance, and broader technical strategy for the site. This role partners closely with operations leadership to ensure the plant has the systems, processes, and long-term technical foundations needed to execute at a high level today and into the future.

This is a strategic leadership role with broad organizational scope with 130+ people across multiple technical departments including maintenance, process engineering, project management, and controls engineering. You'll help shape the site's long-term capabilities while influencing performance, people development, and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the strategic technical direction for the plant across engineering, maintenance, and long-range site readiness.
• Ensure the right systems, processes, and capabilities are in place so the site can execute reliably and improve over time.
• Lead plant performance improvement through a focus on runtime, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and cost per pound.
• Build and develop technical leadership bench strength, including succession capability within the organization
• Advance value stream engineering and process capability thinking across the plant to drive stronger end-to-end technical and operational performance.
• Partner across functions to move the site forward with strong technical judgment, leadership discipline, and a future-focused mindset.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering strongly preferred, ideally in chemical, electrical, mechanical, or a similarly rigorous engineering discipline. Degree in Management or other science required.
• Ability to relocation for future roles within the network, for your future growth and development.
• Strong technical leadership experience paired with operational credibility in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience that reflects more than capital projects alone, with backgrounds such as process engineering, process engineering supervision, operations management, or similar technical/operations leadership paths viewed favorably.
• Strong preference for experience working in a union environment.
• A leader who understands how to improve plant performance while developing others and building capability for the future.
• Someone energized by value stream engineering, end-to-end process thinking, and continuous improvement.

Why You'll Love This Role

• This is a chance to make a visible impact at one of Post Consumer Brands' most important manufacturing sites.
• The role offers significant scope and influence, with responsibility for major technical functions and the opportunity to shape long-term site performance.
• Success in this role can create a meaningful path toward future site leadership and broader manufacturing leadership opportunities throughout the network.
• You'll be part of a company that combines strong resources, beloved brands, and meaningful career growth with an inviting, small-company culture.
• We're looking for people with big ambitions, big hearts, and the desire to make a big difference.

Location & Travel

• Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
• Relocation support is available for this role.
• Travel to corporate and other sites as needed (10% or less)

Ready to Make an Impact

If you're a strategic technical leader who thrives on improving performance, building strong teams, and creating the conditions for long-term success, we'd love to hear from you. Join Post Consumer Brands and discover a role where your leadership can shape what's next - for the plant, for the business, and for your career.