RCM Lead - Decatur, IL

ADM; Decatur (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

ADM seeks an RCM Lead at the Decatur Corn Plant to drive reliability and shift from reactive to proactive maintenance. You will lead change, deploy enterprise asset management, and ensure budgets align with strategic goals.

You will develop maintenance strategies, coach teams, and guide continuous improvement projects across rotating equipment and related assets to meet safety, quality and cost targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in R/M activities.
• Experience managing direct reports (5+ years).
• Proficient in predictive and preventive maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Deploy reliability strategy integrated with Performance Excellence.
• Lead asset management and L2A projects to reduce downtime.
• Guide maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution using CMMS.
• Develop and track reliability KPIs to improve safety and cost.
• Mentor direct reports and build succession within the team.
• Provide technical support to plant maintenance and operations.

Skills

Asset management

Maintenance leadership

Reliability engineering

Project management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

CMMS

Job description

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

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.

REF:112327BR