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.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as single point reliability contact, providing technical direction for cross function teams at the manufacturing site

• Build strong positive relationships with diverse groups through day-to-day reliability plant support with a continuous focus on safe, reliable, and efficient operations

• Provide strong technical leadership, expertise, and advice in support of facility operations with the goal of optimizing facility reliability through the application of PM and Pd.M. programs

• Recommend maintenance/operating technologies, methodologies that improve the RE program and reliability

• Work with primary cross functional teams to identify, evaluate and implement design changes, asset strategies revisions and operating / maintenance procedure updates

• Promote a proactive approach to minimize / eliminate failures by acquiring and analyzing failure data and predicting asset reliability with a goal to reduce maintenance related production losses

• Lead efforts for plant loss mapping based on value stream mapping (details individual equipment processing rates and constraints)

• Promote the application of and facilitate root cause analysis across the facility based on our Global RCA triggers

• Develop business justifications for resolution of equipment reliability problems

• Collaborate with Engineering and Maintenance, providing technical guidance and support for new equipment commissioning

• Work with plant team to analyze loss data to identify underperforming assets

• Provide your expertise in making key decisions with respect to technology and actively participate in all aspects of our Reliability Excellence program, maintenance, and asset health across the plant

• Lead the development of technical standards database and champion the use of those standards as part of precision maintenance being executed by the plant maintenance teams

• Propose changes to inspect equipment and facility through the PM Optimizing tool

• Document technical memory methods, processes, and products

• Monitor technical expertise

• Train maintenance & reliability teams in new procedures / reliability tools when applicable

• Provide recommendations to capital improvement projects to ensure reliability and maintainability

• Build and publish weekly and monthly reports commenting on the overall trends and progress of the asset activities

• Ensure compliance to internal and external policies, procedures, and regulations and to assist external auditors such as insurance companies, and / or other groups as required.

• Responsible for repository of equipment life cycle cost data from design for reliability phase through decommissioning

• Responsible for executing specific functional (lubrication, vibration, condition monitoring, etc.) program audits

• Work with discipline engineers and maintenance teams to understand the root cause and develop the solution and then support and work with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering to implement the solution

• Apply FMEA in equipment and facilities risk assessments

• Evaluate the performance reports as part of asset management and monitor the main indicators of maintenance and reliability (KPIs)

• Develop Equipment Strategy plans that may be plant specific or across the network, with the purpose of increasing reliability and availability

QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WILL HAVE:

• Certified Reliability Engineer or willing to attain

• 5 years' experience in the reliability engineering field

• Experience leading predictive and preventive maintenance programs

• Proven track record of successful implementation of reliability improvement initiatives

• Experience in Failure Modes and Effects Analysis and its application

• Technical training and certifications MLT1, CAT I

• Computer Skills and knowledge of CMMS (SAP PM), MS Excel, Vibration, Ultrasonic and Alignment equipment

• Excellent communication and demonstrated leadership skills

• Strong time management and organizational skills

• Track record of successfully utilizing analytical and problem-solving skills

• Expertise in collaboration and influencing without direct authority

• Excellent communication and demonstrated leadership skills

• Excellent time management and organizational skills, working with multiple priorities and timelines

• Knowledge and experience with maintenance trades / crafts

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Technical training and certifications MLT2, CAT II, Level 1 Ultrasound

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on facilitating RCA process

• Computer Skills and knowledge of CMMS (SAP PM, Prometheus, Lube-IT), MS Excel, Vibration (Emerson Machinery Health Manager), Ultrasonic and Alignment equipment & databases

• Exposure to a food operating plant environment (ISO9001, FSSC22000) is preferred

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.

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.