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Maintenance & Reliability Coordinator

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Job ID 317390 Date posted 11/05/2025 Location : Hammond, Indiana Category  BUILD OPERATE MAINTAIN (PLANT OPNS) Job Status  Salaried Full Time

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill. 
This position is in Cargill’s food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products. 

Job Purpose and Impact

The Maintenance and Reliability Coordinator will work with a cross functional team to plan & execute moderately complex maintenance on our plant assets and equipment following established program guidelines. In this role, you will develop unique job plans to improve the work force efficiency and quality by identifying the elements of an executable work package. You will be planning the maintenance of processing equipment to ensure maximum uptime, providing advanced knowledge of consistent maintenance and reliability best practices in the completion of planning and prioritizing moderately complex tasks.

Key Accountabilities

• Research and compile information and feedback from crafts necessary to ensure highly effective and detailed job plan are generated and executed.
• Initiate the procurement of materials, special tools and unique items required in the job plans using relevant maintenance programs and database tools.
• Transition capital improvement projects from project stage to operations and update information in the database to reflect the improvement, addition, or deletion of equipment and their associated spare parts and maintenance procedures.
• Prepare and provide detailed job plans for moderately complex preventative maintenance activities that comply with fundamental plant maintenance procedures and practices.
• Plan and schedule maintenance downtime and communicate cross functionally with technical and management teams to minimize production impact and improve reliability.
• Maintain custom databases and computerized maintenance management system to support specific work projects and processes.
• Engage in continuous improvement planning to enhance on time performance of technical activities.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of two years of related work experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Continuous improvement experience like lean or six sigma
• SAP training and/or experience
• Knowledge and/or experience managing Maintenance Key Performance Indicators
• Knowledge and/or experience on Predictive Maintenance Practices

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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