Manufacturing Process & Packaging Engineer - Joplin, MO Plant
General Mills · Joplin, MO · Engineering
About this role
General Mills is hiring a mid-level Manufacturing Engineer in the operations function based in Joplin, MO. The posting calls out experience with Data Analytics, Disaster Recovery. Compensation is listed at $70,100–$105,200 per year.
- Role
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Location
- Joplin, MO
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Apr 19, 2026
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Job description
from General Mills careersPOSITION OVERVIEW
The Manufacturing Process and Packaging Engineer (internally called a Systems Engineer) role provides technical leadership and serves as a system and product specialist. They are responsible to build the team’s packaging and processing technical skills through a hands-on approach. They are accountable for the operational foundation systems across the platform to secure basic conditions and drive out losses. The Manufacturing Process and Packaging Engineer plays a critical role to continuously improve by optimizing system performance and product quality while driving strategic productivity and capacity solutions for the platform and ultimately the business.
This level is an entry role to the Manufacturing Process and Packaging Engineer career. The primary focus will be on daily troubleshooting, problem solving and on-the-floor activities to build confidence, capability and credibility with the theory of operations, 4M relationships and our product portfolios. It involves significant floor time to understand manufacturing processes, coupled with development within the System Engineering JTA. As progress is made to grow equipment and technical knowledge, overall capability will improve to identify and execute solutions for performance improvements and loss elimination.
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