Maintenance Manager

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Company Background:

Ingredion is a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that helps nourish, comfort, sustain, and delight people around the world. Ingredion’s wide range of ingredient solutions is strategically designed to address changing consumer trends and preferences. Our specialty portfolio includes starch-based texturizers, clean and simple ingredients, plant-based proteins, sugar reduction and specialty sweeteners, and food systems. Our innovative ingredient solutions are used by consumers in everyday products, from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. And we do it all in a planet-friendly sustainable manner.

As aMaintenance Manageryou will enable Goole site to realise its maximum potential by:

• Providing leadership for the Engineering department
• Managing engineering improvements to the site’s processes and infrastructure to drive improvements in Production efficiencies
• Set the site standards and be responsible for EHS
• Manage the maintenance activities within budgeted expenditure limits through good planning and cost control
• Develop and progress continuous improvement initiatives on the Goole site.

Core Responsibilities:

Engineering department:

• Control and organisation of the maintenance personnel to ensure that the site receives the maximum maintenance resource to support its operation.
• The management of engineering projects to ensure the safe selection, installation, commissioning, and operation of plant, machinery and equipment.
• The management of the sites engineering budget, working within budgeted expenditure limits through good planning and cost control.
• Pursue and demand high levels of workmanship and a zero-defect performance level as the only acceptable standard in all areas.
• Preparing reports to meet the site and company requirements.
• Engineering Continuous improvement:
• Continuously drive improvement initiatives to reduce cost and increase efficiency.
• Develop a world-class maintenance organisation at the Goole site by continually improving OEE of all production lines, addressing quality issues through technical solutions and improving the standards of maintenance workmanship.
• Actively encourage all site personnel in participation in site CI Projects.

Safety of employees, visitors and the safe operation of plant and equipment:

• The development, implementation and compliance with EHSQ policies, procedures and applicable legal requirements.
• The management of the site as required ensuring the safe working of employees and visitors.
• Be conversant with the requirements of the Emergency Response Manual and act as emergency team leader as required during accidents and/or incidents, ensuring that immediate issues are dealt with and reporting requirements are achieved.
• Actively encourage all site personnel in participation in all site EHS involvement programmes.

People management:

• The development of the skills and knowledge of the maintenance team to meet the site and company requirements.
• The management of external relationships with contractors and suppliers to ensure that they are fully conversant with the standards required when working for the company.

Qualified candidates will have:

Mandatory requirements:

Solid experience in:

• Engineering management experience in a food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals or similar
• Knowledge of food standards e.g. HACCP (or similar / equivalent) and ISO
• People management experience in a manufacturing site
• Continuous improvement and change management experience
• Implementation of maintenance best practices
• Understanding of safe working procedures i.e. ATEX DSEAR
• Understanding of PLCs and instrumentation
• Knowledge in SAP and other IT systems

Education:

• Relevant qualification in mechanical or instrument electrical skills required
• EHS background (IOSH / NEBOSH certificate)

Desired requirements:

• Food industry knowledge (esp. food standards e.g. HACCP)

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