Job Description

TITLE: Unit Maintenance Manager

LOCATION: Indianapolis

REPORTS TO: Unit Manager

MODALITY: On site.

The Maintenance Manager is responsible 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 the 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.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Ingredion seeks to provide a work environment that is free from harassment and discrimination. We will not tolerate any form of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, handicap or disability—mental or physical—marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability resulting from military service, or any other classification protected by law (“protected classifications”). We are committed to establishing and maintaining a work environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

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.

Relocation Available:

Pay Range:

This pay range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Final base salary will be determined based on several factors which may include but are not limited to responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data and applicable bargaining agreement (if any).

Incentive Compensation:

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Ingredion Annual Incentive Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.

Benefits:

Full-time roles are eligible for our comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental and vision coverage as well as a 401(k) plan with an competitive company match.