Job Description

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.

As a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler, your responsibilities will include:

• Planning and scheduling maintenance activities (MEC & ELE and outside contractors) 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.
• Use standardized procedures, work processes, and guidelines as per the global work processes.
• Actively seek craft input and feedback on job plans.
• 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.
• Prepare work outline and schedules for both daily and shutdown work activities.
• 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.
• Managing spare parts and alignment between the Maintenance Department and Storeroom.
• Entering requisitions for parts, labor and outside services for planned work in SAP.
• Creating and maintaining Bills of Material (BOM\xe2\x80\x99s) 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.
• Participating in Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE) as necessary.
• Facilitating the weekly planning and scheduling meetings.
• Working with Gatekeepers to integrate production plan with maintenance plan.
• Providing reports to Managers for work order backlog, work history for equipment, and preventative maintenance work status.

The Maintenance Planner position is well-suited for you if you have:

• 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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.
• Experience predictive/preventive maintenance programs

Relocation Available: No

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