As a Manager, Packaging and Material Handling Engineering, Corporate, your responsibilities will include:

• Partner with customers, both internal and external to deliver packaging solutions that enhance the customer experience both in the packaging materials used and the packaging equipment.  Primary focus on packaging of bulk powders.
• Support a team environment that delivers innovative process improvements and provides process troubleshooting to resolve complex business issues.
• Maintain a high level of awareness of current and emerging technologies in dry powder packaging regarding equipment, engineering, design, regulatory requirements and make recommendations on their application to improve profitability of operations worldwide.
• Being up to date on leading edge packaging technologies for bulk powders and liquids will contribute to this role being Ingredion’s subject matter expert on packaging.
• Develop innovative ideas, concepts or techniques that may be useful to our business and operations.
• Provide technical consulting assistance to Ingredion and outside engineering personnel in engineering, design, equipment specifications, project reviews, installation, checkout, start-up, testing, troubleshooting and optimization to support project and plant objectives.
• Review and recommend appropriate equipment and systems for new capital projects and existing installations to ensure that they comply with known safety best practices, applicable codes, and standards.
• Provide the technical support required for the negotiations of national and international contracts for selected supplies and equipment, capital purchases, engineering services, and construction services that will ensure cost effectiveness to all locations served by the contracts.
• Provide technical support and leadership to teams with members involving operations management, maintenance, and engineering to achieve manufacturing excellence.
• Maintain the Company’s intellectual property to ensure competitiveness through proper record retention, mentoring engineers, and preparation of engineering standards, specifications, best practices, and design manuals.
• Provide coaching and develop tools to improve engineering skills throughout the entire organization.

The Manager, Packaging and Material Handling Engineering, Corporate position is well-suited for you if you:

• Anticipate customer needs and proactively create new solutions that exceed customer expectations.
• Ability to work effectively with people from different cultures to accomplish business objectives.
• Act as a mentor, offering advice and guidance to colleagues.
• Respect and value others’ differences, seeking opportunities to learn from those with different perspectives.
• Must be a self-starter, decisive, goals-oriented individual, capable of independent decision making with the ability to successfully meet targeted goals, on time and within budgetary constraints.
• Strong interpersonal skills suited to task force and consulting assignments and to directing or influencing others with the ability to interface effectively with team members, management, customers and vendors.
• Demonstrated application of sound judgment, resourcefulness, initiative, and innovation in handling complex technical assignments and integrating those solutions with business needs into decision making with minimal supervision.
• Proven ability to lead and facilitate in a team environment and build consensus in a positive manner with team members and customers.

Qualified candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a minimum of 10 years of experience of industrial mechanical engineering experience (Mechanical preferred; Chemical, Industrial, Packaging accepted; Electrical considered).
• Experience with packaging equipment (robots, metal detection, force flow packers, screeners, magnets, etc.) of bulk powders (primary focus) and liquids (minor focus).
• Demonstrated knowledge of sizing, design, fabrication, troubleshooting, failure analysis, GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), production measurements and safety requirements of packaging equipment.
• Knowledge of general mechanical technology such as strength of materials, machine design, fluid mechanics and materials of construction.
• Experience or familiarity with control systems and troubleshooting.
• A proven track record of a strong mechanical aptitude, analytical problem-solving skills, project management and creativity.
• Substantial experience in engineering, design, maintenance of mechanical systems and equipment in the food and ingredient manufacturing industry.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex technical problems as applied to facilities design, operations consulting, equipment failures and troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to prepare effective presentations, present tests and results, and write concise reports, document process and operational procedures, and complete the required engineering documentation including P&ID development for new and/or modified equipment and processes.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to train and work effectively with all experience levels.
• Proven ability of influencing others towards positive change both inside and outside the direct chain of command.
• Travel may constitute up to 25 percent of the time on the job and may consist of consecutive weeks in any of the Company facilities worldwide.
• Fluency in English required.  A working knowledge of a Latin or Asian language would be a plus.