Senior Quality Engineer - Cedar Rapids Plant

OVERVIEW As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for championing Food Safety and Quality of our manufacturing systems with direct system ownership, working with both internal and external partners to ensure the safety of General Mills’ products and processes and managing material (ingredient and/or packaging) categories. You will also have the unique opportunity to impact the Innovation, Technology, and Quality function by leveraging your knowledge and skills to provide deep technical expertise, become a leader of global connections, and be recognized as a valued partner for our plant, sourcing, and business teams. The right candidate for this role will leverage strong project management skills, relationship management skills, be results orientated, and be able to find opportunities for value creation in order to help the company succeed. A role at the Cedar Rapids plant provides the opportunity to work in a large, multiplatform facility with a reputation for leveraging CI tools, developing and empowering team members and embracing and leading change. The Cedar Rapids plant manufactures products for Big G Cereal (Lucky Charms, Cheerios, and others), Betty Crocker Ready to Spread Frosting and Fruit Snacks (Gushers, Fruit by the Foot, Fruit Rollups, Shapes) in a unionized plant with 750 team members. Cedar Rapids is one of General Mills’ largest manufacturing locations in North America, producing approximately 115MM cases annually across multiple product lines and operating units. In this role you will have the opportunity to develop communication and influencing skills, a deep technical expertise of food safety and quality, and you will have an exposure to manufacturing environments both inside and outside of General Mills. Key Career Experiences Gained: Quality Engineers work closely with the operations team to provide quality, food safety, regulatory, and sanitation leadership to deliver excellence in consumer safety and satisfaction. Functional: Technology, Experimentation, Commercialization, Product Maintenance Leadership: Matrix Relationship Management, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Plant/Site Leadership Broadening: Multi-Functional, Multi-Business, Global Role/Responsibility, Cross-Geography, Field, Corporate, Transformation Initiative, External KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES Provide FSQ leadership and direction through technical mastery in the areas of regulatory compliance, SPC, system capability, sanitation, and food safety risk mitigation and champion material supplier food safety and regulatory compliance Provide plantwide support for Food Safety Program management and training Build alignment and strategy with cross functional partners; lead risk assessments and root cause analysis activities for issue resolution.   Provide leadership and technical support for R&D, HMM, reformulations, and new product start-ups. Provide leadership in the identification and implementation of product and process quality improvement opportunities and resultant productivity gains. Develop action plans with Operations, R&D, Engineering, and FSQ teams to ensure product specifications, analytical procedures, and sampling programs are appropriate and meet system capability and key consumer requirements. Using quality engineering principles, collect, analyze and interpret in-process and analytical data to make quality evaluations, recommend actions for improvement. Provide leadership for sanitation excellence. Review plans for new and changing systems and ensure effective product safety and sanitation design. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 5+ years of related experience   Ability to work well on a team and build effective relationships across all levels of the organization. Ability to manage cross platform projects and be comfortable with ambiguity Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated results-orientation. Ability to manage multiple tasks and adjust priorities. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Food Science, Packaging, Material Science, or related field. Knowledge of product protection and Quality Engineering principles. Self-starter who has the ability to prioritize workload while meeting commitments. Strong understanding of product quality, sensory, and food safety. Strong understanding of Zero Loss Culture philosophy and tools. Demonstrated mechanical aptitude, ability to apply engineering principles, and ability to troubleshoot. Demonstrated leadership and initiative. Demonstrated ability to navigate complex organizations. Plant Quality Engineer, manufacturing, or auditing/consulting experience. FSQ/XQM/ESC Experience COMPANY OVERVIEW We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.