Senior Engineering Manager
- Location
- Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Salary
- $0 – $0 / year
About the job
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
The Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania facility proudly produces iconic pet food brands like 9Lives®, Gravy Train®, and Kibbles 'n Bits®. This location also features an on-site Distribution Center, ensuring efficient delivery of products to customers. Bloomsburg is home to Bloomsburg University, a municipal airport, and a landmark Town Park offering acres of recreational activities. The town also hosts one of the largest and longest-running fairs in the country. With so much to do and see, Bloomsburg is a great place to live, work, and play!
Responsibilities
The Senior Engineering Manager is the site’s senior technical leader, advancing engineering excellence, capital execution, automation, process improvement, and long-term asset strategy in a highly automated manufacturing environment. This leader guides the site engineering team and helps maintenance and reliability programs support safe, dependable manufacturing performance. You will lead engineering and technical professionals, direct external partners and contractors, and manage an annual capital investment portfolio of up to $20 million. Your work will strengthen manufacturing capability, equipment performance, capacity, productivity, food safety, quality, and cost competitiveness while shaping a three- to five-year technical roadmap. Key Responsibilities
• Develop and execute the site’s multi-year engineering, automation, infrastructure, and capital investment strategy.
- Develop and execute the site’s multi-year engineering, automation, infrastructure, and capital investment strategy.
- Manage an annual capital portfolio of up to $20 million, including project identification, business justification, planning, forecasting, execution, and financial closeout.
- Lead capital projects from concept and design through procurement, installation, commissioning, start-up, and operational handoff.
- Provide technical direction to engineering resources while developing the site’s engineering, controls, and troubleshooting capability.
- Prioritize and deliver improvements in safety, food safety, quality, capacity, productivity, automation, reliability, and cost performance.
- Partner across Operations, Quality, Safety, Supply Chain, Finance, and Procurement to remove constraints and deliver business results.
- Select and manage engineering firms, equipment manufacturers, system integrators, construction contractors, and other technical partners.
- Establish technical standards, engineering specifications, equipment practices, and long-range facility and asset strategies.
- Lead complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis, major shutdowns, equipment installations, and high-risk technical activities.
- Provide strategic guidance to the maintenance and reliability team and help build mechanical, electrical, controls, and problem-solving capability.
- Shape the technical direction of a highly automated manufacturing site and influence its three- to five-year roadmap.
- Lead approximately 35 active capital projects of varied size, with meaningful autonomy in how work is prioritized and executed.
- Create visible impact across food safety, quality, reliability, efficiency, cost improvement, and manufacturing competitiveness.
- Build stronger engineering standards and help advance the site toward smarter, more connected factory capabilities.
- Develop technical talent while partnering with plant leadership, corporate engineering, and specialized external resources.
Qualifications
Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Eight or more years of progressive experience in engineering, capital projects, technical operations, manufacturing engineering, plant engineering, or engineering leadership.
- Eight or more years of progressive experience in engineering, capital projects, technical operations, manufacturing engineering, plant engineering, or engineering leadership.
- Demonstrated experience leading capital projects and delivering technical improvements in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience working directly in manufacturing operations and communicating a technical vision to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience managing engineering teams and developing technical professionals.
- Experience managing engineering teams and developing technical professionals.
- At least three years of capital project leadership experience spanning scope development, budgeting, contractor management, commissioning, and operational handoff.
- Knowledge of industrial manufacturing systems, automation, controls, utilities, and process engineering.
- Experience building and executing multi-year capital investment strategies and managing annual capital portfolios of $10 million or more.
- Experience in food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
- Experience implementing automation, process optimization, productivity improvement, CMMS, reliability, or asset management programs.
- Lean Six Sigma certification or demonstrated continuous improvement expertise; PMP, PE, CMRP, or another relevant professional certification is also preferred.
From Post Holdings's careers page (Company careers page), checked 29 Oct 2026.
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Posted 15 Oct 2026 · checked 29 Oct 2026 · Report this job