Manufacturing Process Systems Engineer

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About the role

The Manufacturing Systems Engineer provides technical leadership and serves as a system and product specialist. They build the team’s packaging and processing technical skills through a hands-on approach and are accountable for operational foundation systems to secure basic conditions and drive out losses. This role focuses on daily troubleshooting, problem-solving, and on-the-floor activities to build confidence, capability, and credibility in theory of operations, 4M relationships, and product portfolios. It involves significant floor time to understand manufacturing processes and development within the Systems Engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead Food and Human Safety through Safety 2.0 leadership principles and standards, fostering a culture that reduces risk by increasing capability to identify and control critical risks. Serve as the Control of Hazardous Energy (CoHE) Platform Owner, ensuring safe system designs, managing procedure changes, and coaching best practices.
• Cultivate a Food Safety Culture committed to manufacturing safe food compliant with policy and regulatory requirements.
• Build team capability through troubleshooting, problem-solving, and facilitating on-the-floor activities to enhance confidence in theory of operation and Operational Foundational Systems (CIL, CL, DH).
• Drive System Utilization (DSU) by developing Loss Tree and glidepaths for the line/system, executing loss elimination tasks, and improving system reliability through continuous improvement processes.
• Execute HMM (Highly Managed Maintenance) initiatives.
• Oversee Daily Direction Setting (DDS) and Operations Foundational Systems to secure basic conditions and drive out losses (Clean-Inspect-Lubricate CIL, Centerlines CL, and Theory of Operation TOO).
• Provide Vertical Start-Up (VSU) support to drive execution and improvements.
• Gain exposure to the 4M’s (machine, materials, methods, human) on the manufacturing floor to grow skills and understanding of input interdependencies.
• Utilize data and information systems (performance metrics, financial information, data historian, maintenance management system) to drive decision-making.
• Learn material balances and unit operation capability to ensure optimal production rates, parameters, and formulas.
• Develop through connections and learning from operators, technicians, maintenance, and peers by applying foundational systems rigorously.
• Provide backup support as needed to ensure business continuity and operational efficiency for technical partners on the platform team (SE, QE, Maintenance).

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related field with applicable experience, or extensive relevant work experience.
• 1+ years of related manufacturing product or process engineering experience.
• Understanding of manufacturing systems, unit operations, and statistical analysis methods to drive performance metric analysis.
• Mechanical aptitude with strong general engineering principles knowledge.
• Demonstrated leadership in a highly collaborative environment with proven success in reducing losses and improving performance.
• Technical capability and knowledge of unit operations and manufacturing machinery.
• Skilled at communicating across work groups, cross-functional resources, and plant/corporate teams.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing data analysis systems (e.g., SAP, Maximo, Manufacturing Analytics, MQIS) and decision-making for results.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Food Engineering, or related engineering field.
• 2+ years of direct food manufacturing experience.
• Experience with data and manufacturing performance metrics analysis.

International relocation or remote working arrangements outside the U.S. will not be considered. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; General Mills will not sponsor work visas for this position.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $71,300 - $107,000 annually. Pay is determined by factors including education, skills, work experience, and certifications. Beyond base salary, General Mills offers a competitive Total Rewards package focusing on overall well-being, including health benefits, retirement, financial wellbeing, time off programs, wellbeing support, and perks. Eligible employees may participate in an annual incentive program based on individual and organizational performance.