Maintenance and Reliability Manager
$123,500–$164,700 year
On-siteNorth Kansas City, Missouri, United States
EXPIREDNorth Kansas City, Missouri, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$123,500–$164,700 yearIndustrial ManufacturingEnterprise
Full TimeEnterpriseIndustrial Manufacturing
Job Summary
Lead implementation and long-term sustainability of the Ingredion Performance System, including governance, audits, action plans, and performance measurement. Standardize operational KPIs, best practices, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement processes to drive business results. Develop and execute reliability and maintenance strategies for critical assets, ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations. Optimize asset management systems and data analytics, including CMMS (SAP-PM), proactive issue identification, failure analysis, and corrective actions. Identify, prioritize, and implement reliability, productivity, and Industry 4.0 initiatives that improve safety, quality, cost, and production performance. Partner with plant leadership, corporate functions, and cross-functional teams to align priorities, share best practices, manage risk, and deliver operational improvements. Build organizational capability by developing talent, fostering collaboration, leading through influence, and strengthening succession planning and team engagement.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Electromechanical, Automation Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience in operations, engineering, reliability, continuous improvement, project management, or related business functions
- Demonstrated ability to lead data-driven improvement initiatives using statistical analysis, process optimization, and performance metrics to improve reliability and operational results
- Strong analytical, project management, and stakeholder management skills
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive sustainable business improvements
- Proven change agent with a track record of driving organizational improvement and building commitment for new ways of working through data-driven decision-making
- Strong project management, communication, presentation, and coaching skills
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Self-motivated leader with high integrity, sound judgment, and the ability to align teams around business objectives and deliver results
- Skilled at fostering collaboration, trust, and accountability while motivating diverse, cross-functional, and multicultural teams to achieve shared goals
- Committed to continuous learning and development, inspiring adaptability, resilience, and performance excellence in both individuals and teams
- Experience in Corn Wet Milling or similar continuous manufacturing environments
- Experience with CMMS (SAP-PM)
- Experience with proactive issue identification, failure analysis, and corrective actions
- Experience with Industry 4.0 initiatives
- Ability to manage risk
- Ability to develop talent
- Ability to strengthen succession planning
- Ability to foster team engagement
- Ability to champion change
- Ability to lead reliability initiatives
- Ability to enhance safety, quality, productivity, and long-term operational success
- Ability to improve availability, reliability, maintenance cost, and organizational capability
- Ability to develop organizational capability
- Ability to lead the Maintenance & Reliability organization for the Production Unit
- Ability to ensure production assets safely and reliably perform their required functions
- Ability to integrate maintenance execution, asset strategy, and continuous improvement
- Ability to deliver sustainable improvements in availability, reliability, maintenance cost, and organizational capability
- Ability to lead the Maintenance & Reliability organization for the Production Unit
- Ability to ensure production assets safely and reliably perform their required functions through excellent maintenance execution, effective reliability engineering, and disciplined work management
- Ability to integrate maintenance execution, asset strategy, and continuous improvement to deliver sustainable improvements in availability, reliability, maintenance cost, and organizational capability
- Ability to lead implementation and long-term sustainability of the Ingredion Performance System, including governance, audits, action plans, and performance measurement
- Ability to standardize operational KPIs, best practices, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement processes to drive business results
- Ability to develop and execute reliability and maintenance strategies for critical assets, ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations
- Ability to optimize asset management systems and data analytics
- Ability to identify, prioritize, and implement reliability, productivity, and Industry 4.0 initiatives that improve safety, quality, cost, and production performance
- Ability to partner with plant leadership, corporate functions, and cross-functional teams to align priorities, share best practices, manage risk, and deliver operational improvements
- Ability to build organizational capability by developing talent, fostering collaboration, leading through influence, and strengthening succession planning and team engagement
- Experience in operations, engineering, reliability, continuous improvement, project management, or related business functions
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Electromechanical, Automation Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience in Corn Wet Milling or similar continuous manufacturing environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead data-driven improvement initiatives using statistical analysis, process optimization, and performance metrics to improve reliability and operational results
- Strong analytical, project management, and stakeholder management skills
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive sustainable business improvements
- Proven change agent with a track record of driving organizational improvement and building commitment for new ways of working through data-driven decision-making
- Strong project management, communication, presentation, and coaching skills
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Self-motivated leader with high integrity, sound judgment, and the ability to align teams around business objectives and deliver results
- Skilled at fostering collaboration, trust, and accountability while motivating diverse, cross-functional, and multicultural teams to achieve shared goals
- Committed to continuous learning and development, inspiring adaptability, resilience, and performance excellence in both individuals and teams
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Electromechanical, Automation Engineering, or a related technical field preferred
- Experience in Corn Wet Milling or similar continuous manufacturing environments is preferred
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