RCM Lead - Decatur, IL

Archer Daniels Midland Company; Newman; On-site; AUD 171,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Physical wellness

Financial wellness

Mental and social wellness

Paid time off

Job summary

Archer Daniels Midland Company seeks a seasoned RCM Lead to drive reliability improvements at the Decatur site. You will lead change, champion proactive maintenance, and implement asset management strategies within ADM’s enterprise framework.

The role requires 8+ years in R&M, strong leadership, and expertise in predictive and preventive maintenance, CMMS, and reliability methodologies. Collaboration across teams will be essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field with 8+ years of R&M experience.
• Experience in electrical or mechanical maintenance in manufacturing environments.
• Experience leading direct reports (5+ years).
• Proficient in predictive and preventive maintenance and reliability standards.

Responsibilities

• Deploy reliability strategy within Performance Excellence framework.
• Align budgets with strategic direction and asset management goals.
• Develop asset management strategy integrated with Performance Excellence.
• Support maintenance team to optimize resources and improve efficiencies.
• Define reliability metrics and KPIs to meet safety, quality, and cost goals.
• Lead CMMS usage for planning, scheduling and execution.
• Provide technical support to maintenance department.
• Mentor and develop direct reports on a quarterly basis.
• Drive Losses to Action projects to reduce downtime and save targets.
• Act as main point of contact for RCM initiatives across scope areas.
• Guide Location Maturity Assessments and associated actions.

Skills

Predictive maintenance

Preventive maintenance

Root cause analysis

Project management

Leadership

Teamwork

Vibration analysis

Rotating equipment knowledge

Communication skills

Safety & process safety management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

CMMS

Job description

RCM Lead - Decatur, IL

The RCM Lead is a key leader in building and leading change in their assigned scope area of Decatur Corn Plant. They are considered a leader in the operations management team and are responsible for driving step change improvement of plant reliability while also championing the continued move from reactive to proactive maintenance. They will apply their knowledge and experience to ensure continuous improvement to optimize the company's physical assets and maintenance and reliability processes and strategies. Lead implementation, acceptance and adoption of enterprise asset management system.

Responsibilities

• Deploy the equipment reliability strategy and ensure it is integrated and part of Performance Excellence
• Ensure the NDE capital and expense budgets are aligned with the strategic direction
• Supports development of asset management strategy that aligns with business needs and is integrated and part of Performance Excellence
• Supports plant maintenance team to optimize plant resources to improve efficiencies through reliability processes.
• Supports the maintenance organization with clear roles and responsibilities and staffing based on replacement asset value
• Ensure a deep understanding of current standard methodologies (reliability elements) in the reliability and maintenance industry and deploy those agreed standards to assigned site/s scope
• Define and drive reliability metrics and KPI’s in support of operational goals while improving safety, quality, delivery and cost
• Utilizes downtime and cost data to prioritize improvement opportunities around equipment reliability and organization efficiency
• Provide technical support to the plant maintenance department
• Identify continuous improvement projects and develop business cases in collaboration with plant maintenance team
• Effective usage of maintenance planning, scheduling and execution processes using ADM’s chosen computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)
• Responsible for the growth and development of all direct reports. Ensures that coaching and mentoring towards development goals is completed quarterly
• Guide the development and completion of Losses to Action (L2A) projects to drive down unscheduled downtime and meet annual L2A savings goals
• Drives the completion of updating the sites Location Maturity Assessment and action items associated with it
• Main point of contact for all RCM initiatives that are being deployed at assigned scope area (individual site or multi-sites)

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related with 8+ years of experience in R&M activities
• Electrical or mechanical experience in a manufacturing maintenance and engineering environment
• 5+ years’ experience managing direct reports
• Proficient in predictive and preventive maintenance
• Knowledge of Root Cause Analysis, Cause and Effect or FMEA methodologies
• Proven ability to lead multifunctional teams
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills (Including the ability to present information to a formal group)
• Familiarity with food safety and process safety management
• Tenacity in pursuing objectives to completion correctly and on time
• Strong team player with the ability to proactively change plant culture
• Experience in Vibration, Infrared, Alignment, Ultrasonic, Motor Circuit, and Lubrication analysis
• Background working on rotating equipment, seals, piping, pumps, fans, blowers, and material handling equipment

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Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

The pay range for this position is expected to be between:

Benefits and Perks

Enriching the quality of life for the world begins by taking care of our colleagues. In addition to competitive pay, we support your diverse needs with a comprehensive total rewards package to enhance your well-being, including:

• Physical wellness – medical/Rx, dental, vision and on-site wellness center access or gym reimbursement (as applicable).
• Financial wellness – flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401(k) with matching contributions and cash balance plan, discounted employee stock purchasing program, life insurance, disability, workers’ compensation, legal assistance, identity theft protection.
• Mental and social wellness – Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and Colleague Giving Programs (ADM Cares).

Additional benefits include:

• Paid time off including paid holidays.
• Adoption assistance and paid maternity and parental leave.
• Tuition assistance.
• Company-sponsored training and development resources, such as LinkedIn Learning, language training and mentoring programs.

*Benefits may vary for bargained locations, confirm benefit eligibility with your recruiter.

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About ADM

At ADM, we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We’re a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world’s premier agricultural origination and processing company. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health and wellness, and more. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we enrich the quality of life the world over. Learn more at www.adm.com.