Senior Engineering Project Lead – Food Manufacturing

Post Holdings, Inc.; Tremonton (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Post Consumer Brands in Tremonton, Utah is seeking an Engineering Project Manager III to lead complex projects that improve safety, quality, cost performance, and maintenance reliability. You will guide work from concept and business justification through design, installation, start-up, and handoff, aligning scope, schedule, budget, and performance.

This role blends technical problem-solving with hands-on leadership, partnering with plant teams, suppliers, consultants, and contractors to deliver

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant engineering experience in operations, project management, process design, or contractor supervision within a process environment.
• Proven experience managing complex projects from definition through installation and start-up.
• Working knowledge of engineering disciplines, plant operations, and construction.
• Understanding of Lean Manufacturing or Continuous Improvement methods.
• Demonstrated analytical, business judgment, troubleshooting, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering projects from concept through start-up, establishing scope, resources, budgets, schedules, equipment, and material needs.
• Build project justifications, cost estimates, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analyses, expenditure requests, and recurring progress reports.
• Create and lead cross-functional project teams, facilitate project meetings, and communicate plans, risks, decisions, and progress to internal partners.
• Control project scope, schedule, cost, quality, and performance while maintaining safety as the highest priority.
• Select and manage equipment suppliers, engineering consultants, construction contractors, and other external partners.
• Evaluate technologies and specify or design food processing, packaging, and infrastructure systems.
• Provide construction and start-up management, including oversight of project construction activities and equipment commercialization.
• Apply federal, state, and local engineering codes and review ergonomics, safety, sanitation, GMP, and food safety requirements for assigned projects.
• Maintain process flows, P&IDs, and engineering standards while sharing and implementing best practices.
• Provide training and technical support to plant teams when applicable.

Skills

Engineering

Project management

Process design

Contractor supervision

Lean manufacturing

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in science or engineering

Tools

Microsoft Project

Primavera P6

Procore

SAP/JD Edwards

Job description

Post Consumer Brands in Tremonton, Utah is seeking an Engineering Project Manager III to lead complex projects that improve safety, quality, cost performance, and maintenance reliability. You will guide work from concept and business justification through design, installation, start-up, and handoff, aligning scope, schedule, budget, and performance.

This role blends technical problem-solving with hands-on leadership, partnering with plant teams, suppliers, consultants, and contractors to deliver