Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Manager

About Ingredion: Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, youve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pets food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether youre just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference. Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create. Location: South Sioux City, NE Workplace type: Onsite The Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Manager plays a critical role in maximizing equipment performance and plant productivity by leading strategic maintenance planning, reliability initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration. This leader drives standardization, operational excellence, and safety-forward practices to ensure assets consistently perform at their highest level. As a Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Manager, you will oversee maintenance planning, scheduling, and reliability engineering to ensure the plants assets operate safely, efficiently, and at peak performance. This role drives standardized maintenance processes, optimizes resources, and leads teams to enhance equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and support continuous operational improvement. This role report to the Maintenance and Reliability Manager and oversees a team of 3 individual contributors. What you will do: Lead maintenance planning and scheduling to ensure timely, efficient execution of maintenance activities while minimizing production downtime. Implement and manage the plants reliability program using RCM, failure analysis, and predictive tools to improve equipment performance and extend asset life. Oversee maintenance cost management, spare parts/warehouse operations, and resource optimization to drive efficiency and cost reduction. Supervise and develop the maintenance team, ensuring strong safety practices, regulatory compliance, and effective performance management. Lead major shutdown planning and highrisk maintenance processes, ensuring standardized procedures and alignment with regional stakeholders. Monitor and manage key maintenance and reliability KPIs, driving continuous improvement through root cause analysis and gapclosure plans. Collaborate with procurement to manage thirdparty service providers and develop strong supplier partnerships. What you will bring: Minimum of five (5) years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, or reliability management, ideally within an industrial or food-processing environment. Advanced proficiency in SAP, including SAP Material Management (MM) and SAP-Preventive Maintenance (PM), with experience in implementation and daily system management. Strong knowledge of RCM, FMEA, root cause analysis tools, KPI management, and maintenance planning/control methodologies. Solid understanding of electrical and mechanical equipment used in industrial machinery and process environments. Demonstrated leadership, communication, and team-development skills, with the ability to adapt to shifting priorities, manage pressure, and foster a collaborative work environment. Who you are: Strong leadership and communication skills, demonstrating a safetyfirst mindset and the ability to mentor, coach, and develop a highperforming maintenance team. Proactive, analytical problemsolving, using root cause analysis, reliability tools, and continuousimprovement thinking to drive operational excellence. Highly organized and adaptable, able to manage multiple priorities, navigate fastpaced plant environments, and respond effectively to changing operational needs. Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, fostering effective relationships across maintenance, production, procurement, and safety teams. Agile, innovative, and actionoriented, bringing creativity, initiative, and a positive, solutionsfocused mindset to improve processes and team capabilities. Why Join Ingredion? Discover why Ingredion is the ideal place to advance your career with our exceptional rewards and benefits package designed to help you thrive. Create the future with us and enjoy: Total Rewards Package Competitive salary and performance-based pay recognizing your contributions to our success Comprehensive Benefits & Wellness Support Health, long-term savings, and resources for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being Career Growth Learning, training, and development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement Employee Recognition Program A culture of real-time appreciation, with personalized recognition rewards globally Employee Discount Program Provides exclusive discounts on everyday products, services, and travel #LI-RA1 #LI-ONSITE 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 disabilitymental or physicalmarital 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. Ingredion uses AI-enabled tools to support parts of the recruitment process, including resume screening and interview scheduling. These tools help match candidate skills to job requirements and streamline communication. All AI-assisted decisions are reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team to ensure fairness and compliance with applicable laws. By applying, you acknowledge that AI may be used to support your application journey. Relocation Available: No Pay Range: $108,000.00-$144,000.00 Annual 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. Ingredion is a leading global, plant-based 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. At Ingredion, we embrace possibilities and inspire each other to think big. Together, we are reimagining how we can make life better through our differentiated ingredients and innovative solutions. We share an inspiring purpose to make life better, for our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world. We belong to a culture of bold innovators, of people who believe that their skills, creativity, and passion can deliver solutions that can enhance peoples lives. We create what's next, transforming our imagination into innovation. We have a welcoming and collaborative environment to build and grow a career in a multinational company. 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