Maintenance Planner

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 theres 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: North Kansas City MO

Workplace type: Onsite

Join Ingredion as a Maintenance Planner where you will drive operational reliability by strategically planning and scheduling maintenance activities that balance safety cost and performance. This role plays a critical part in ensuring plant efficiency minimizing downtime and supporting continuous improvement across operations.

As a Maintenance Planner you will be responsible for planning scheduling and coordinating maintenance activities for assigned units within the plant. This role ensures that maintenance work is executed safely efficiently and in alignment with production goals while leveraging systems like SAP and working closely with engineering operations and procurement teams.

This role reports to the Planning and Control Manager.

What you will do:

• Plan and schedule maintenance activities including defining scope safety requirements materials labor and timelines.
• Manage the full maintenance planning process including work orders backlog prioritization and scheduling.
• Coordinate with operations and engineering to align maintenance plans with production and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain and manage spare parts Bills of Material (BOMs) and requisitions within SAP systems.
• Facilitate planning and scheduling meetings and provide reporting on maintenance activities.
• Create and improve job plans ensuring standardization and continuous improvement through feedback and RCPE participation.
• Support budgeting activities and act as backup to the Maintenance Manager when needed.

What you will bring:

• Experience in maintenance planning and scheduling in a manufacturing environment (e.g. food pharma refinery).
• Familiarity with SAP Prometheus or similar maintenance systems.
• Knowledge of Microsoft tools (e.g. MS Project) preferred.
• Experience using KPIs for performance tracking and decision-making.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Who you are:

• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate across functions.
• Effective communication at all levels of the organization.
• Problem-solving mindset with ability to drive innovative solutions.
• Commitment to safety quality and continuous improvement standards.

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.