TITLE: PROCESS LEAD

LOCATION: SOUTH SIOUX CITY PLANT

REPORTS TO: OPERATIONS MANAGER

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.

The PROCESS LEAD will provide leadership and technical solutions to operations. This position supports and ensures proper response to activities within the unit, including managing assigned operations and tasks in various areas to meet the South Sioux City Plant’s safety, environmental, quality, cost, and customer delivery goals. The Process Lead serves on task forces, cross-functional teams, committees, and works shift assignments in the unit as needed.

THIS ROLE WILL PRIMARILY WORK OFF-SHIFT AND WEEKEND HOURS

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for day-to-day production, maintenance, and engineering support and troubleshooting to produce products of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the projected needs of customers.
• Keeping historical data, including tracking of daily performance, analyzing, and monitoring key efficiencies and parameters against design to assist Operations with troubleshooting and meeting costs and production goals.
• Providing management support in response to process deviations as reflected in KPI reports and process trends, assisting operations teams in troubleshooting process deviations.
• Analyzing processes, developing new operating techniques, and recommending changes or capital expenditures to maintain or improve business efficiencies, facility life and quality.
• Supporting and leading investigations related to safety and quality incidents.
• Lead and coordinate the training and coaching of operations personnel in both process design and operational techniques established to maintain unit business objectives and to provide organizational strength and individual growth within the organization.
• Monitoring process conditions and operational activities and proposes corrective action as needed to ensure operation of the process in a cost effective and efficient manner.
• Certified Lean Specialist responsible for leading internal department projects.
• Partnering with trainers to support, develop, and execute training programs, including verification of training effectiveness.
• As needed, covering Department Manager or Operations Leads responsibilities due to vacations and vacancies.
• Ability to manage a manufacturing environment, including capability to perform effectively in high stress, emergency, and crisis situations.
• Ability to train and coach others to improve performance, including supporting supervisor training, mentoring, and development.
• Capacity to solve problems through creative, innovative solutions and challenge traditional methods of accomplishing tasks.
• Ability to build consensus and foster positive relationships.
• Ability to learn and apply Ingredion’s GMP, Quality and Safety standards.
• Ability to support department adaptability, flexibility, and readiness to change.

QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WILL HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical or mechanical engineering or equivalent in education and experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate across functional lines at all levels.
• Decision making ability, planning, and time management skills.

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.

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

RELOCATION AVAILABLE:

No

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.