Maintenance Unit Manager

Maintenance Unit Manager – About Ingredion

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Location: Argo Plant, Bedford Park, IL
Workplace type: On Site

• Establish and maintain safe work practices and environmental compliance.
• Contribute to the achievement of plant safety goals.
• Maintain safe working conditions throughout the unit.
• Execute short‑ and long‑term maintenance planning, scheduling, and continuous improvement activities.
• Analyze relevant Key Performance Indicators to identify deviations and initiate corrective actions.
• Manage asset risk in collaboration with the reliability team to ensure condition‑based monitoring compliance.
• Develop and manage a unit maintenance budget.
• Collaborate with procurement, reliability, and engineering to determine spare parts inventory.
• Initiate the Management of Change (MOC) process as necessary.
• Select non‑core contractor vendors from the approved list and provide required bid packages.
• Develop and implement improvements to maintenance management practices.
• Drive cost awareness, control, and reduction programs to meet or improve upon the financial goals of the unit and plant.
• Use SAP, Prometheus, and other maintenance systems to support overall maintenance activities and continuous improvements.
• Facilitate root cause problem elimination sessions.
• Oversee safety, quality, and schedule achievement of contractor work.
• Partner with contractor leaders and site leaders to review workload, manpower skills, and labor resources.
• Maintain an atmosphere of teamwork and joint accountability with the production units.
• Lead reliability, preventive maintenance, and condition‑based monitoring efforts and improvements.
• Support performance management activities and site development efforts to enhance capability and provide ongoing personal development.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or a reliability preference. CMRP certification is desirable.
• 5+ years in maintenance and reliability.
• Experience managing a maintenance department in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with utilities‑specific equipment, steam turbines, generators, air compressors, and gas boiler systems.
• Experience in maintenance reliability, preventive maintenance, condition‑based monitoring, and root cause problem elimination techniques.
• Knowledge of SAP as it pertains to maintenance and budgeting.
• Use of KPIs for decision making and corrective action.
• Experience creating and adhering to department budgets.
• Computer literate with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, etc.).
• Capacity to solve problems through creative, innovative solutions and challenge traditional methods.
• Demonstrated experience setting expectations for staff in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to learn and apply Ingredion’s Safety, Quality, and Financial Safety standards.
• Excellent communication across functional lines and at all levels.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• 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 and implement effective development activities for salaried reports.
• Ability to understand and integrate technical and business needs into all activities.
• Participation in cross‑functional meetings and project reviews (e.g., IPS, Unit Capex Review).
• Conduct and lead root cause analysis.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional teams and manage contractors.

• Salary range: $ – $ annual. Final base salary determined based on responsibilities, education, experience, and other factors.
• Incentive compensation through the Ingredion Annual Incentive Plan or a role‑specific commission/bonus.
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