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Maintenance Planner

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Ingredion

Ingredion

Maintenance Planner

Bedford Park, IL
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    COMPANY BACKGROUND:

    Ingredion is a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that helps nourish, comfort, sustain, and delight people around the world. Ingredion’s wide range of ingredient solutions is strategically designed to address changing consumer trends and preferences.Our specialty portfolio includes starch-based texturizers, clean and simple ingredients, plant-based proteins, sugar reduction and specialty sweeteners, and food systems.Our innovative ingredient solutions are used by consumers in everyday products, from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. And we do it all in a planet-friendly sustainable manner.

    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.

    Ingredion is hiring a MAINTENANCE PLANNER to plan maintenance activities and assist in effectively balancing operating reliability against maintenance costs while meeting plant goals for safety, productivity, and customer experience.

    CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Planning and scheduling maintenance activities including identifying safety requirements, estimating time/manpower requirements, setting tasks, identifying materials and tools, writing technical information.

    • Planning and scheduling maintenance activities to an appropriate level of detail required for execution and identification of critical paths.

    • Acquiring and maintaining in depth knowledge of appropriate company safety and regulatory rules, procedures, and policies, in order to craft job plans appropriately.

    • Responsibility for managing the maintenance planning process including: all safety requirements, planning of work orders, managing back log, and scheduling work.

    • Providing reports to management for maintenance activities as necessary.

    • In conjunction with operations, coordinating delivery of equipment, materials and kitted parts to execute the maintenance job plan.

    • Entering requisitions for parts, labor and services for planned work in SAP.

    • Creating and maintaining Bills of Material (BOM’s) in SAP following corporate standards.

    • Writing New Item for Stores (NIFS) for changes or updates.

    • Using SAP, Prometheus, and other maintenance systems in support of the overall maintenance planning process.

    • Creating job plans and standard job plans utilizing template and maintain in system.

    • Debriefing with maintenance mechanics for feedback after completion of the job.

    • Participating in Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE) as necessary.

    • Providing proper documentation to Procurement in support of bidding of work.

    • Facilitating the weekly planning and scheduling meetings.

    • Working with Gatekeepers to integrate production plan with maintenance plan.

    • Strong time management and organizational skills.

    • Ability to build consensus and foster positive relationships.

    • Ability to communicate across functional lines and at all levels.

    • Ability to learn and apply Ingredion’s Safety, Environmental, GMP, and Quality standards.

    QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WILL HAVE:

    • Demonstrated experience in maintenance planning and scheduling including shut downs and the creation of job plans for a manufacturing environment including food, pharmaceutical, or refinery industries.

    • Knowledge of SAP and Prometheus systems as it pertains to maintenance and operations a plus.

    • Knowledge of Microsoft software preferred.

    • Use of KPIs for decision making and corrective action.

    • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

    • Ability to conduct effective meetings.

    • Capacity to solve problems through creative, innovative solutions and challenge traditional methods of accomplishing tasks.

    • Ability to acquire and maintain knowledge of maintenance practices.

    We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

    Ingredion provides accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If a job applicant requires an accommodation during the application process or through the selection process, we will work with the applicant to meet the job applicant's accommodation needs.

  • Industry
    Food and Beverages
  • About Us

    Ingredion is a leading global ingredients solutions company. We make sweeteners, starches, nutrition ingredients and biomaterials that are used by customers in everyday products from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals.

    We turn grains, fruits, vegetables and other plant materials into ingredients that make crackers crunchy, candy sweet, yogurt creamy, lotions and creams silky, plastics biodegradable and tissues softer and stronger. Our innovative ingredient solutions help customers stay on trend with simple ingredients and gluten-free or high-fiber foods that appeal to today's consumers.

    Grounded in our values of Care First, Be Preferred, Everyone Belongs, Innovate Boldly and Owner's Mindset, we employ approximately 11,000 employees around the world. Our customers operate in more than 120 countries and represent 60 diverse sectors, including food, beverage, paper and corrugating, brewing and other industries.