Maintenance Scheduler

About Ingredion: Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s 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 you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's 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: Bedford park, IL (Argo) Workplace type: Onsite As Maintenance Scheduler you will be responsible for all planning, scheduling, and some spare part management activities within the maintenance department. They will ensure the work is planned effectively, and scheduled appropriately to minimize equipment downtime, ensuring maintenance technicians utilization and efficiency is maximized, whilst achieving defined safety and quality standards, thus providing alignment with departmental stakeholders and functions. What you will do: Plan, schedule, and coordinate all preventive and corrective maintenance activities, including shutdowns, outages, and contractor-managed work, ensuring efficient execution and minimal operational disruption. Develop and maintain weekly, daily, and shift-level maintenance schedules, monitor progress, and report performance, schedule adherence, and key KPIs to management. Manage maintenance inventory by overseeing critical spare parts, consumables, job kitting, stock control, and stock-taking activities to support planned maintenance work. Serve as the SAP PM subject matter expert (SME), planning and managing work orders, maintenance plans, asset records, scheduling activities, purchasing requirements, and CMMS continuous improvement initiatives. Ensure compliance with statutory inspections and regulatory requirements by scheduling, tracking, and maintaining records for examinations such as LEV, LOLER, pressure vessels, and other site-specific obligations. Administer permit-to-work and contractor management processes, including issuing permits, conducting audits, ensuring procedural compliance, and maintaining induction documentation. Support health, safety, and compliance programs by conducting risk assessments, participating in safety initiatives, verifying maintenance material compliance, and maintaining accurate regulatory documentation and records. What you will bring: Proven experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), preferably SAP PM. Background in maintenance planning, reliability engineering, or maintenance operations within an industrial/manufacturing environment. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and general computer systems. Who you are: Maintenance planning and scheduling expertise, including work order management, resource planning, and preventive maintenance coordination. Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments and with external contractors. Self-motivated and capable of working autonomously while driving continuous improvement and challenging existing processes. Team-oriented mindset with strong relationship-building skills and the ability to contribute both strategically and hands-on when required. Proactive, methodical problem-solving skills with a focus on reliability, compliance, and operational efficiency. 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 #LI-ONSITE #LI-KJ1 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 disability—mental or physical—marital 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 applicant's 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: No Pay Range: $84,400.00-$112,533.33 Annual 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. Ingredion is a leading global, plant-based ingredients solutions company. We make sweeteners, starches, nutrition ingredients and biomaterials that are used by customers in everyday products from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. At Ingredion, we embrace possibilities and inspire each other to think big. Together, we are reimagining how we can make life better through our differentiated ingredients and innovative solutions. We share an inspiring purpose — to make life better, for our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world. We belong to a culture of bold innovators, of people who believe that their skills, creativity, and passion can deliver solutions that can enhance people’s lives. We create what's next, transforming our imagination into innovation. We have a welcoming and collaborative environment to build and grow a career in a multinational company. Here, everyone can be their authentic selves and be part of a community of talented and caring people, interacting with professionals around the world, made up of varied backgrounds, cultures and industries. We are encouraged to think differently and innovate through collaboration and experimentation. We are constantly imagining new ways to bring value to our customers, through new ingredients, solutions, and ways of working. Don’t see the dream job you are looking for? Share your contact information and CV/Resume to join our Talent Community! Want to receive new opportunities directly? Simply set up a Job Alert by signing-in and creating an account. After your account is established, click on Job Alert located in the top right corner and specify your preferences. Please ask your Ingredion connection about our Employee Referral Process!