TITLE:  Plant Coordinator 

LOCATION:  North Kansas City 

REPORTS TO: Plant Coordinator, Manager 

Ingredion is currently recruiting for the position of Plant Coordinator.  This position directly manages 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.  We produce over 120 different products as a leading manufacturer of engineered materials, specialty foods, healthcare, and industrial starches. 

As a Plant Coordinator, your responsibilities will include: 

• 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  

The Plant Coordinator position is well-suited for you if you: 

• 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 

Qualified candidates will have: 

• 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 

Relocation Available? No 

Job Grade: F