Reliability Engineer

About Ingredion:

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Location: Kansas City MO

Workplace type: Onsite

The Reliability Engineer will be the sites technical authority on asset reliability driving preventive and predictive maintenance strategies eliminating chronic equipment issues and improving uptime safety and maintenance effectiveness across the plant.

As a Reliability Engineer you will be responsible for improving equipment performance and maintenance effectiveness by developing and optimizing preventive and predictive maintenance strategies leading reliability improvement initiatives and providing technical expertise to maintenance and operations teams. This role partners closely with plant stakeholders to reduce equipment downtime eliminate chronic failures and support safe efficient and reliable plant operations.

This role reports to the Planning and Control Manager.

What you will do:

• Develop optimize and maintain preventive and predictive maintenance programs to improve equipment reliability and availability.
• Serve as the sites reliability subjectmatter expert providing technical guidance and coaching to maintenance planners and technicians.
• Lead reliability improvement initiatives including bad actor programs root cause analyses (RCA) and FMEAs to eliminate chronic equipment issues.
• Utilize the CMMS (SAP) to manage maintenance data equipment files BOMs and key reliability and inspection performance metrics.
• Partner with production maintenance and storeroom teams to prioritize defects align operating practices and ensure timely corrective actions.
• Support maintenance planning spare parts strategy and quality standards for repairs rebuilds and contracted work.
• Promote plant safety and reliability best practices while staying current on emerging inspection and predictive maintenance technologies.

What you will bring:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven experience in reliability engineering and asset management including preventive and predictive maintenance methodologies.
• Strong working knowledge of CMMS systems (SAP preferred) and use of maintenance and reliability data to drive decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead reliability initiatives such as RCA FMEA and bad actor programs in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Excellent communication analytical and problemsolving skills with the ability to influence crossfunctional teams.

Who you are:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills Able to clearly communicate technical concepts and priorities and work effectively with maintenance production and leadership teams.
• Influence without authority Demonstrates the ability to lead initiatives drive change and build consensus in a crossfunctional environment without direct reports.
• Analytical and structured problemsolving Applies data root cause analysis and critical thinking to identify reliability issues and implement sustainable solutions.
• Organizational and prioritization skills Effectively manages multiple projects and competing priorities while focusing on risk equipment criticality and operational impact.
• Continuous improvement mindset Proactively challenges existing practices stays current on reliability and predictive maintenance technologies and looks for opportunities to improve safety performance and cost.

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

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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 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 applicants 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:

Pay Range:

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.