Senior Electrical & Controls Capital Engineer

🕒 September 8

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $110.8k - $166.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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General Mills

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1928

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

General Mills is a leading global food company that has been dedicated to making food for over 150 years. They create a wide array of beloved products, ranging from cereals and snacks to meals that bring joy to families around the world. Driven by a commitment to sustainability and community impact, General Mills focuses on responsible sourcing and healthful food offerings, ensuring that they uphold high standards in food safety and ethics.

📋 Description

• Provide project management leadership on capital project installations, including scope definition, budget development, resource selection and management, and schedule management • Provide electrical and controls technical leadership through equipment selection and design, installation and commissioning support, startup readiness, and system performance improvement • Lead or support electrical and controls scope development, design review, and execution for capital projects across multiple sites and initiatives • Partner with project managers to define scope, identify risks, develop execution strategies, and support delivery against objectives, timelines, and budgets • Serve as a technical resource for electrical, controls, and automation decisions • Collaborate with project teams, plant engineering, operations, maintenance, IT, and internal/external technical resources on innovative designs, performance improvements, speed to market, and capital efficiencies • Review and coordinate design work by external engineering firms, programming partners, system integrators, OEMs, and contractors • Ensure technical solutions align with plant and corporate standards, safety requirements, operational needs, and maintainability • Support electrical distribution, motor control, instrumentation, controls architecture, network considerations, equipment integration, and startup strategies • Coordinate tie points, shutdown planning, startup readiness, and handoff requirements • Resolve technical issues during project execution and startup • Assist with contractor and vendor coordination, technical reviews, submittals, FAT/SAT planning, field issue resolution, and commissioning • Contribute to estimates, scope clarification, technical bid review, and assessment of external support needs • Maintain technical documentation and capture lessons learned • Travel 25%-100% during project execution and startup, averaging approximately 50%, including possible extended weekends and holidays

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related degree with applicable experience, or extensive relevant work experience • 7-10 years of relevant experience • Ability to travel 50% • Experience in plant operations and industrial environments understanding equipment design and impacts to materials, labor, and work processes • Project Engineering experience including scope definition, cost estimation and tracking, EAC estimation, and scope management • Experience supporting technical execution for capital projects from scope development through startup and closeout • Strong knowledge of industrial electrical systems, controls systems, instrumentation, and automation integration • Ability to work effectively across technical, operational, and project-management teams • Strong communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills • Minneapolis preferred; remote eligible • Experience working with external engineering firms, system integrators, OEMs, and contractors • Understanding of Food Manufacturing Regulatory Requirements (GMPs, Food Safety, sanitation practices, and design criteria) • Familiarity with Continuous Improvement and Vertical Start-up tools and processes • Experience with capital project delivery, commissioning, startup planning, outage coordination, and operational handoff • Experience reviewing drawings, control narratives, functional descriptions, startup plans, and contractor deliverables • Experience coordinating technical work across internal and external stakeholders • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification • Fluency or strong proficiency in a foreign language • Applicants must meet a minimum 18-year age qualification • International relocation or international remote working arrangements outside of the US will not be considered

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Total Rewards package • Health benefits • Retirement and financial wellbeing benefits • Time off programs • Wellbeing support • Perks • Potential eligibility for an annual incentive program

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