Ingredion Incorporated

Sr. Manager Engineering & Reliability Europe

LOCATION: Hamburg

REPORTS TO: Manufacturing Director Europe

DIRECT REPORTS: >6

WORKPLACE PATTERN: On-site, with some flexibility to work from home

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.

The Engineering & Reliability Manager Europe is responsible for leading the department of Project and Reliability Engineers / Managers incl. their professional development and for planning, coordination, and management of European investment projects within a multi-million-dollar budget in coordination with the needs of the business partners as well as ensuring efficient, time, resource-, and cost-effective execution. In addition, the implementation of the global reliability strategy for the European production sites with the aim of increasing technical availability and saving maintenance costs is part of the role as well.

Core Responsibilities:

Capex Projects

• Planning, coordination and monitoring of all CAPEX projects in Europe.
• Coordination and monitoring of project preparations as well as planning and execution with a focus on adherence to deadlines, costs, and use of resources.
• Overarching cost control as well as management and monitoring of the expenditure progress of all European projects.
• Manage and extend external partners for effective project management, development of KPIs as well as standards and tools for effective project management.

Reliability

• Development and implementation of strategies and digital technologies to increase the technical availability of plants and to save maintenance costs.
• Identification and implementation of the latest industry standards in the field of maintenance as well as exchange of best practices with other locations within Ingredion.
• Introduction of standardized processes, practices, key performance indicators and analyses to identify potential equipment failures and malfunctions as well as to eliminate or avoid them.
• Development and implementation of training courses in the field of maintenance regarding reliability.
• Collaboration with plant teams to implement reliability strategy, programs, and projects, as well as corporate engineering.
• Support of investment projects within the framework of plant design to optimize the life cycle of plants ("Design for Reliability").
• Support risk management by identifying risks for potential, significant equipment failures.

General

• Transfer of internal and external engineering know-how to and from other locations.
• Finding and integrating innovative solutions and new process technologies.
• Implement Lean Sig Sigma tools and methodologies.
• Management of the engineering department as well as the management, coordination of and participation in local and global CI groups.
• Close collaboration with all departments of the European manufacturing team as well as with the global corporate organization.
• Use and further development of networks within and outside the organization.

Qualified candidates will have:

Mandatory requirements:

• Education: engineering qualified – degree standard
• Solid professional experience in project management of large-scale multi-million projects within a manufacturing multinational company
• People management / team leadership experience
• Expertise in project management, process technologies, reliability management, Six Sigma as well as occupational health, safety and environment.
• Experience in a matrix organization with solid stakeholder management is critical
• Very good technical understanding as well as very good understanding of process engineering processes
• Language: German (C1) and English fluency, both written and spoken

Desirable requirements:

• Ideally - process engineering and food industry background; other potential industries include but are not limited to – pharmaceuticals, chemicals, automotive, construction materials, copper industry, etc.
• Multi-country experience

Required Behaviors and Skills

• Team player with strong leadership and communication skills as well as a high level of assertiveness
• Analytical, conceptual, and strategic skills, data- and fact-oriented work.
• Ability to work in an international environment with cultural sensitivity.
• Ability to inspire and motivate others.
• Ability to drive – hands on mentality.

Relocation available: yes

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, military status, or disability status.

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.

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Relocation Available:

Yes, Internationally