Engineering Management Development Associate
We’re a leader in the pet care industry, which means we’re not only ahead in volume, profit and market share, but our associates dare to Stand Taller. We innovate new products, impart new agilities into existing processes, constantly advance pet nutrition, and always pay it forward in the form of service for our communities and families. Are you up for the dare?
For more than 30 years, our Management Development Associate program has developed our future leaders. This program allows you to embark on a personal and professional development experience a classroom can’t offer.
Joining Nestlé Purina as an Engineering Management Development Associate means you're joining our factory family to play a key role in leading and executing capital projects that impact the larger business. You’ll experience information systems, quality assurance, supply chain, accounting, human resources, production, R&D engineering, and operations performance to understand how each of these areas collaborate with the engineering management work that you’ll do. Following from there, you’ll experience a unique breadth of work within your functional area and focus on becoming a domain expert at the factory you’re assigned to.
Why a leadership developmental role with us versus somewhere else? Taking the engineering path of our Management Development Associate program is a full-time position that puts you on the fast track to management on the manufacturing side of our business. You are the future leader.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Develop detailed project scopes that account for operational impact
• Be a problem solver by crafting solutions to problems in accordance with engineering standards
• Prepare specifications, bid scopes as well as evaluate bids and awards for construction projects
• Oversee project start-ups and contractors
• Master plant process flows, utility flows, capacities, procedures, and practices
• Develop leadership skills and experience and demonstrate maintenance supervisory capability
Basic Qualifications (Minimum):
• Must be open to relocation to one or more of our 23 production facilities across the U.S.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or expected to attain by June 2022
Preferred qualifications:
• Prior co-op or practicum experience; manufacturing experience; student organization or other leadership experience