We bring the potential of people, nature, and technology together to make life better.

That’s our purpose. We are all IN to make life better!

Every day, Ingredion employees bring their skills, creativity, and passion together to deliver ingredient solutions that enhance people’s lives. We are innovators who combine the power of technology with the best of nature to delight our customers and consumers. We hold ourselves to the highest standards in ethics, safety, quality, and sustainability. Unlocking the potential of people, nature, and technology to make life better is what drives us in every aspect of our business.

If you are interested in making life better, we are all IN to learn more about you! A bit about what you can expect from the employee experience at Ingredion:

The chance to make a difference

No matter where you work in the company, you’ll have an opportunity to make life better… for our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world.

Passionate people, motivated to excel

Our highly talented people have a passion for learning and achievement and are driven by our inspiring purpose to make life better and our core values: Care First, Be Preferred, Everyone Belongs, Innovate Boldly, and Owner’s Mindset.

A warm, welcoming environment

At Ingredion, everyone belongs! We embrace diversity and foster an inclusive work environment where individuals feel supported and enabled to contribute their very best every day.

A place where you can grow personally and professionally

We believe everyone has great potential, and we strive to nurture that potential into great personal and professional achievements.

An environment that enables innovation and collaboration

We are creating the conditions that inspire and enable innovation - in our products and services, as well as in how we do our work day-to-day.

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for for the safety, quality and efficiency of maintenance work performed aimed at optimizing the plant’s production, cost effectiveness and budget adherence. 

Core Responsibilities:

• Establishing and maintaining safe work practices and environmental compliance. Contributing to the achievement of plant safety goals. Maintaining safe working conditions throughout the unit.
• Being accountable for the execution of the short and long term maintenance planning, scheduling, and continuous improvement activities.
• Analyzing relevant Key Performance Indicators to identify deviations and initiate corrective actions.
• Managing asset risk in collaboration with the reliability team to ensure condition based monitoring compliance.
• Developing and managing a unit maintenance budget.
• Collaborating with procurement, reliability and engineering to determine spare parts inventory.
• Initiating Management of Change (MOC) process as necessary.
• Responsibility for vendor selection of non-core contractors from the approved vendor list.
• Providing necessary bid packages to include scope of work, materials and equipment as required by Procurement staff.
• Developing and implementing improvements to maintenance management practices.  Driving cost awareness, control and reduction programs in order to meet or improve upon the financial goals of the unit and plant while protecting investment in current and future capital assets.
• Using SAP, Prometheus, and other maintenance systems in support to drive the overall maintenance activities and continuous improvements.
• Facilitating root cause problem elimination sessions.
• Working with contractor leaders to oversee safety and quality of work and achievement of schedule.
• Partnering with contractor leaders and site leaders to review workload, skills of manpower, and manage labor resources.
• Maintaining an atmosphere of teamwork and joint accountability with the production units, recognizing mutual goals, accountabilities, and needs as well as building consensus in a positive manner with customers, suppliers, and team members.
• Leading reliability, preventative maintenance and condition based monitoring efforts and improvements.
• Working closely with Operations in developing,  implementing, and evaluating risk of strategies to ensure the success of the Plant. Support Performance management activities and site development efforts to enhance the capability and provide ongoing personal development for direct reports.
• Demonstrated experience in setting expectations for staff in a manufacturing environment, including capability to perform effectively in high stress, emergency and crisis situations.
• Ability to learn and apply Ingredion’s Safety, Quality, and Financial Safety standards.
• Ability to communicate across functional lines and at all levels.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with proven ability to lead in a team environment, motivate, build consensus and foster positive relationships with team members and contractors.
• Ability to evaluate personnel needs/effectiveness and implement effective development activities for salaried reports.
• Ability to understand and integrate technical and business needs into all activities.
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting production equipment and processes. 
• Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems. 
• Experience in change management in a union facility.
• Provide leadership and direction to the maintenance team. Inspire high performance through effective goal setting and performance measurement.

Qualified candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related field strongly desired. CMRP certification desirable.
• Experience in managing a maintenance department for a manufacturing environment including food, pharmaceutical, or refinery industries.
• Experience in maintenance reliability, preventative maintenance, condition based monitoring, and root cause problem elimination techniques.
• Knowledge of SAP system as it pertains to maintenance and accounting, a plus.
• Use of KPIs for decision making and corrective action.
• Experience in creating and adhering to department budget.
• Computer literate with knowledge of Microsoft Office Software applications (i.e. Excel, Word, etc.).
• Capacity to solve problems through creative, innovative solutions and challenge traditional methods of accomplishing tasks.