Rachel Torres

Rachel Torres serves as Senior System Engineer at General Mills, where she has worked for four years after advancing from a system engineer role. With about 10 years in manufacturing, her career began in the meat processing industry, starting with microbiology testing in a lab and progressing to quality technician and process supervision roles in a tannery. She later joined Nutrien as a utilities engineer overseeing steam and cooling water systems before moving to General Mills. Rachel holds a Bachelor's of Science in Chemical Engineering, a leather technician certification, and high-pressure boiler certifications, and she is currently enrolled in a Dale Carnegie class. She takes pride in her early involvement piloting a data historian tool that expanded across North American sites and beyond. Rachel attributes her success to persistence and self-compassion during challenges, values flexibility, autonomy, trust, and integrity, and sees opportunities in manufacturing through AI adoption while noting the field's enduring necessity.