# Manufacturing Packaging Engineer - Covington, GA

Hiring organization: [General Mills](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/general-mills)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/d9d00eea-c2dd-4b3c-b49c-1db09e59f149

Listed on General Mills's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Covington, GA
- Salary: 95300 – 143200 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads technical improvements on packaging production lines at a food manufacturing facility, combining hands-on process expertise with team mentoring to reduce losses and optimize system performance. It suits experienced manufacturing or process engineers who want to deepen their operational knowledge while developing others in a structured continuous-improvement environment.

_Our summary, not General Mills's wording._

## Skills named

Continuous Improvement, Data Analysis, IBM Maximo, SAP, Statistical Analysis, Theory of Constraints

## Required

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related field, or extensive relevant work experience
- 5+ years of related manufacturing or process engineering experience
- Food science or process/packaging science background
- Understanding of manufacturing systems and unit operations
- Advanced data and statistical analysis
- Consumer products or process industry experience
- Mechanical aptitude specific to manufacturing technology
- Experience with Loss Tree and Glidepath ownership
- Financial acumen for plant-level cost analysis
- Manufacturing data analysis systems knowledge (SAP, Maximo, Manufacturing Analytics, MQIS)
- Leadership and collaborative team experience
- Demonstrated ability to reduce losses and improve performance in manufacturing
- Technical knowledge of unit operations and manufacturing machinery
- Cross-functional communication skills

## Nice to have

- 6+ years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree in a technical, science, or engineering field

Apply on General Mills's site: https://genmills.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/GMI_External_Careers/job/Covington-GA/Sr-Systems-Engineer---Covington--GA_10123983