Plant Coordinator

Title: Plant Coordinator

Location: North Kansas City, MO

Reports To: Unit Manager- Wet Starch

Workplace Type: Onsite

Ingredion is hiring a Plant Coordinator to directly manage hourly production employees in accordance with daily safety, quality, productivity, and reliability goals. This position also ensures compliance with other plant policies including HACCP, GMP, Food Safety, etc., as well as supports both production scheduling and planned and reactive maintenance activities.

You will need these skills to be successful:

• Ensuring compliance with all Plant Rules
• Ensuring compliance with all plant productivity requirements
• Ensuring operator accountability to their job requirements
• Ensuring operator staffing is appropriate for shift requirements
• Coordinating/supporting compliance with production schedule requirements
• Coordinating all necessary Preventative and Reactive Maintenance requirements
• Supporting plant cost control initiatives and measures
• Coordinating/supporting Plant Loss Accounting (OEE) systems
• Supporting operations support functions, including quality and maintenance
• Supporting all safety and quality initiatives, including performing and assisting in investigations
• Ensuring compliance with all plant safety procedures and guidelines
• Coordinating/executing plant safety training requirements
• Completing/executing all required safety and environmental inspections
• Ensuring compliance with all incident and accident investigations/reporting/corrective action
• Ensuring workforce compliance with all plant quality procedures and guidelines
• Ensuring all production activities are performed in accordance with all ISO and GMP requirements
• Supporting customer experience activities through internal/external customer visits; sales/commercial team plant visits; and translation of customer experience to plant metrics
• Supporting continuous improvement projects and initiatives
• Offering new ideas and thinking outside the box
• Ensuring team adaptability, flexibility, and readiness to change
• Professionally leading and managing production requirements with direct reports
• Creating an environment conducive to teamwork on shift and with other supervisors and departments
• Participating and/or leading teams
• Coordinating completion of all employee training programs
• Supporting employee coaching and counseling guidelines
• Supporting progressive discipline program
• Ensuring compliance with collective bargaining agreement between USW and Ingredion Incorporated
• Supporting salaried performance management system and agreed requirements
• Supporting plant management communication programs
• Effectively communicate with all levels of the organization

• Work with little direction and lead others in a challenging, dynamic union work environment
• Possess excellent multi-tasking, time management, and organizational skills
• Affect change through influence and good communication
• Are willing to challenge the status quo for continuous improvement
• Consistently demonstrate a high level of integrity, sincerity, and humility
• Are proactive and innovative with a strong will to succeed

Your profile needs these qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Business Management or related field or 5 years of demonstrated effective supervisory experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications
• Familiarity with SAP and Aspen.
• Demonstrated analytical problem-solving skills
• Assertive, creative, energetic, and positive thinking
• Availability to work any shift, including holidays, nights, and weekends, including coverage for supervisor vacancies and vacations

Ingredion Total Rewards and Benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive package that aligns with our values and goals. It includes salary, incentives, health, retirement, flexibility, learning, recognition, and wellness.

We offer the benefits below:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Annual Bonus.
• A 401k match.
• Parental leave
• Among other incredible benefits.

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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:
Yes, Within Region

Pay Range:
$81,680.00-$108,906.67 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.