TITLE: Operations Lead, Dry Starch

LOCATION: Cardinal Facility

REPORTS TO: Starch Department Manager

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.

We bring the potential of people, nature, and technology together to make life better.

That’s our purpose. We are all IN to make life better!

Every day, Ingredion employees bring their skills, creativity, and passion together to deliver ingredient solutions that enhance people’s lives. We are innovators who combine the power of technology with the best of nature to delight our customers and consumers. We hold ourselves to the highest standards in ethics, safety, quality, and sustainability. Unlocking the potential of people, nature, and technology to make life better is what drives us in every aspect of our business.

If you are interested in making life better, we are all IN to learn more about you! A bit about what you can expect from the employee experience at Ingredion:

The chance to make a difference

No matter where you work in the company, you’ll have an opportunity to make life better… for our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world.

Passionate people, motivated to excel

Our highly talented people have a passion for learning and achievement and are driven by our inspiring purpose to make life better and our core values: Care First, Be Preferred, Everyone Belongs, Innovate Boldly, and Owner’s Mindset.

A warm, welcoming environment

At Ingredion, everyone belongs! We embrace diversity and foster an inclusive work environment where individuals feel supported and enabled to contribute their very best every day.

A place where you can grow personally and professionally

We believe everyone has great potential, and we strive to nurture that potential into great personal and professional achievements.

An environment that enables innovation and collaboration

We are creating the conditions that inspire and enable innovation - in our products and services, as well as in how we do our work day-to-day.

The Operations Lead will be focusing on providing leadership for the team, delivering on department process operational targets, meeting safety, quality, production, cost and customer delivery goals.

Core Responsibilities:

• Leading, promotion and administration of Safety, Health, Environmental and Employment Standards, complying with corporate standards and regulatory requirements applicable to area of responsibility.
• Oversight and leadership of the Wet Starch operators and the department, motivating and engaging employees while promoting team building.
• Working with operators and peers to identify and deliver on production targets and improvement opportunities.
• Optimization of production in compliance with product quality specifications and food safety requirements to meet production targets.
• Coordinating with Maintenance to ensure that maintenance and reliability activities are carried out to meet the requirements of the department.
• Ongoing oversight and review of process documentation.
• Monitoring process conditions and operational activities taking corrective action as needed to ensure operation of the process in a cost-effective and efficient manner.
• Tracking of historical data, analyzing and monitoring key efficiencies and parameters to optimize and troubleshoot processing issues while meeting cost and production goals.
• Set, prioritize and enable the achievement of ambitious goals through others.
• Have the capacity to solve problems through creative, innovative solutions and challenge traditional methods of accomplishing tasks.
• Respect and value others’ differences, seeking opportunities to learn from those with different perspectives.
• Build long-term relationships with key decision-makers and internal stakeholders.
• Take swift, decisive action and use organization resources in the best interest of the company
• Take ownership and operate with a sense of urgency to promptly respond and resolve problems.
• Adapt and support others through change, ambiguity, uncertainty and complexity.
• Assume personal responsibility for mistakes, act to correct them and learn from them.
• Anticipate customer needs and proactively create new solutions that exceed customer expectations
• Challenge the status quo by offering ideas to make things better, faster and with value creation in mind

Qualified candidates will have:

• Post-Secondary education in engineering or technical discipline or equivalent in education and experience.
• Knowledge of Corn Refining operations and processes preferred, but not required.
• Decision making ability, planning and time-management skills.
• Ability to manage a dynamic manufacturing environment, interacting and communicating across functional lines and levels.
• Ability to train and coach others to improve performance.
• Ability to build consensus and foster positive relationships.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $80,500.00-$98,700.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Vision care

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Cardinal, ON K0E 1E0: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

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