Process Engineer

TITLE: Process Engineer

LOCATION: Indianapolis Plant

REPORTS TO: Unit Manager

The Process Engineer will be responsible for monitoring process conditions, providing troubleshooting and technical support, maintaining instrumentation and control systems to assist in meeting safety, quality, production, and cost goals. Identifying and implementing process improvements including capital projects/permits from conception to start-up.  

Core Responsibilities:

• Promoting Safety, Health and Environmental programs in order to ensure workforce stability, eliminating losses attributable to personal injury or property damage, and comply with regulatory guidelines applicable to manufacturing processes and product characteristics.
• Executing projects as necessary (establish and meet budget and schedule, supervise construction, train personnel, supervise startup, coordination with QC/QA, safety, health and environmental, and maintenance) or being a member of a project team that executes projects.
• Keeping historical data, to analyze and to monitor key efficiencies and parameters against design to assist Operations with troubleshooting and meeting costs and production goals.
• Keeping current in discipline, to assess new technologies and ideas, to develop, evaluate, and seek approval for new concepts to improve the efficiency and the capability of the process, the life of the facility, and the product quality.
• Ensuring the instrumentation, control systems, and documentation (and validation or PSM where required) can support the plant’s quality and production.
• Managing the systems, service contracts, or software licenses as directed to maintain the overall instrumentation and control systems.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining assigned changes of plant instrumentation/control systems. Training maintenance, contractors, operators, and staff when implementing changes or responding to issues with instrumentation/control systems to minimize downtime.
• Executing control systems lifecycle planning to ensure continued support and fit for use as it approaches obsolescence.
• Evaluating and executing opportunities for improving plant automation and information systems.

Qualified candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent technical experience with 3 years’ experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present technical information to a non-technical audience and prepare concisely written reports.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, identify opportunities for improvement, and implement action plans and follow-up to ensure effective results.
• Ability to successfully design, plan and implement capital projects/permits and perform engineering functions in a manufacturing environment. Demonstrate completed projects meet the design objectives. Familiar with project management techniques.
• Lean Six Sigma belt certification or willingness to obtain certification.
• Strong data analytics and Excel use. 
• Experience with Delta V or other DCS platform, Aspen IP.21 or other process data historian, and PLC programming.
• Knowledge of measurement transmitter and control valve theory of operation, application, selection, specification, and installation.
• Demonstrated knowledge of analog control theory, configuration, and tuning.

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, 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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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.

Relocation Available:

Yes, Within Country