Jenny Wright Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Leader of the General Mills Innovation, Technology and Capital engineering organization with a team >140 talented individuals.Responsibilities include:- > $600 Million in People and Pet food capital projects annually delivered through a team of capital execution experts internally and externally.- Provide the engineering interfaces between SC, R&D and the business to drive innovation, commercialization, capacity and cost savings capital and develop solid capital LRP tied to business need for growth and profit.- Global essential capital prioritization and LRP for manufacturing asset reliability.- Seeking, developing and executing transformation projects across the end to end supply chain to deliver significant cost savings.- Developing and advancing automation across North American manufacturing and logistics sites to improve SC resiliency.- Transforming GMI engineering's capital execution by benchmarking and utilizing different models of capital execution and reducing cost of capital with should cost modeling and design to value initiatives.- Machine Design team and internal machine shop to design, develop and build proprietary technology for GMI- Field engineering leadership development, guidance and staffing across >20 manufacturing sites..- General Mills leader of Women in Supply Chain globally with industry leading results and benchmarked by other CPGs.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Sr. Director of Engineering with responsibilities including- Responsible for $600 Million in People and Pet food capital projects annually delivered through a team of capital execution experts internally and externally.- Provide the engineering interfaces between SC, R&D and the business to drive commercialization, capacity and cost savings capital and develop solid capital LRP tied to business need for growth and profit.- Global essential capital prioritization and LRP for manufacturing asset reliability.- Seeking, developing and executing transformation projects across the end to end supply chain to deliver significant cost savings.- Advancing automation across North American manufacturing and logistics sites to improve SC resiliency.- Transforming GMI engineering's capital execution by benchmarking and utilizing different models of capital execution.- Field engineering leadership development, guidance and staffing across >20 manufacturing sites..- General Mills leader of Women in Supply Chain globally with industry leading results.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Head of Engineering for the North America Retail Segment.Responsible for:- Delivering annual >$300 Million Capital Plan for Growth, Cost Savings and Essential across all of General Mills North America Retail business.- Developing LRP for capital for North American Retail to allow for continued business growth, cost reduction and plant reliability.- Field Technical talent including dotted line leadership for all plant engineering leaders.- Leadership to deliver against Operation Excellence through Maintenance, Reliability and Capital.- Technical advancement and delivery of critical North American transformations to drive significant SC end to end pipeline productivity.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

End to End Supply Chain responsibility for General Mills ~ $1B North American Cereal Supply Chain. - As part of the Cereal Operating Unit Leadership team drove year over year Cereal growth through commercialization of new products and capacity expansion for core products such as Cinnamon Toast Crunch.- Delivered years of record productivity to differentially fuel the business.- Cereal SC leadership responsibilities include Plan, Source, Make and Deliver for our 6 production facilities, numerous externals manufacturers and an extensive distribution network. - Delivered agile and rapid capacity creation during COVID pandemic to ensure product availability to customers/consumers.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Engineering leader for General Mills Global Reliability function. Responsible for the system experts across technology platforms including packaging, energy, ingredient overuse, manufacturing analytics, systems improvement and problem solving. Maintenance and reliability also fall under Global Reliability along with the Planned Maintenance pillar. Strong tie to the Manufacturing Excellence team and our continuous improvement journey.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Senior leader working across Engineering, Maintenance and Sourcing with a focus on driving significant savings >$40 Million in the MRO spend across the Supply Chain though standardizing components, suppliers and service providers in our sites. Implementing standards processes to sustain the savings long term. In addition, I hold a leadership role for GMI's Women in Supply Chain and as the leader of the Engineering Safety Council.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Leader of Global Project Management department for GMI. Responsible for corporate led Capital projects with individual initiatives up to $200 million. 19 direct reports including Project Managers and Global program managers supporting Global supply chain capital.Leader of the GMI engineering safety council.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Provided leadership and strategy for Control and Information Systems for General Mills supply chain.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Provide technical leadership for a large cereal and baking manufacturing plant. Responsibilities include managing the engineering department, developing and managing long range capital plan for the site and ensuring execution of the plan. Other areas of responsibility include utliites management and maintenance/reliability.In addtion, my role has included leading the project engineering community across the company and developing programs for the community.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Managed 40+ union maintenance employees in facilities and cereal maintenance.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Held a role in the Corporate controls group implementing PLC and Foxboro projects across US cereal manufacturing plants. Also developed controls standards for plants.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Executed capital projects as project engineer and lead electrical engineer on capital projects. Provided site wide controls support.

Masters Of Science, Electrical And Computer Engineering, Power And Control Engineering

Bsee, Electrical Engineering