Principal Advisor, Asset Management - Decatur, IL or ADM site


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Job Title: Principal Advisor, Asset Management - Decatur, IL or ADM site
Location: Decatur, IL, Midwest United States, USA

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

Principal Advisor, Asset Management - Decatur, Illinois

*** Ideal work locations for this position include Decatur, Illinois; Cedar Rapids, IA; Des Moines, IA; Erlanger, KY; or Lincoln, NE

This is a permanent, full-time, exempt-level position.

Position Description

ADM is seeking a Principal Advisor in the Asset Management department to join a team focused on developing and deploying an Asset Management System aligned with ISO 55000.

This role will help prioritize, develop, and deploy relevant asset lifecycle process elements to various sites in the three business units.

The Principal Advisor is part of the team that advocates for lifecycle asset management through managing Asset Risk, Cost, and Performance to achieve Reliability and Maintainability objectives, supporting Availability and Overall Equipment Effectiveness.

Focus areas include:
  • Developing asset management process elements (e.g., Asset Criticality, Work Management, Asset Integrity, Defect Elimination, Operational Readiness) and associated playbooks, process flows, guidance, and tools

  • Collaborating with sites to deploy process elements, demonstrate results, and ensure programs are sustainable

  • Supporting development of ADM's asset management governance model, assessment, and guidance

  • Supporting development of ADM's asset management assurance program aligned with ADM's integrated management system

  • Collaborating with sites to develop Asset Management Plans

  • Developing and applying program documentation including
-Context and purpose

-Strategies and plans

-Process flows

-Responsibilities & Accountability charts

-Workshop materials

-Assessments

-Administrative documents

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is passionate about asset management, reliability, and maintenance, and is an effective communicator.

The Principal Advisor will collaborate with operations, maintenance, engineering, projects, training, safety, risk and other group functions for alignment and delivery.

This role requires proficiency with the creation of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio documents as well as developing and managing PowerBI dashboards and related data files.

The Principal Advisor - Asset Management provides field leadership to implement ADM's Asset Management Framework:

  • Deploy field assessments for each process element and identify gaps in performance referencing relevant standards and/or benchmarks

  • Actively assist processing facilities' staff in closing these gaps - requires field work

  • Develop and deliver kick-off, progress report, and close-out presentations.

  • Create templates and guidance documents to assist processing facilities' staff in creating asset management strategies and asset management plans, including:

  • Align policy, objectives and approaches for managing the asset portfolio and systems

  • Decision-making framework

  • Objectives and approach to be used to achieve the strategy

  • Detail time frames relevant to the achievement of the strategy

  • Identify capabilities needed to achieve the objectives

  • Develop plans to achieve recommended and agreed objectives:

  • Activities, resources, timelines required for a business unit or plant (site) to achieve their objectives;

  • Reference to relevant strategy

Primary Responsibilities

  • Creates the asset lifecycle process elements as outlined in the Asset Management Framework

  • Executes assessments at the plant facilities to measure gaps against standards, industry-recognized benchmarks, and ADM's Asset Management Framework

  • Serves as a resource to implement the asset management processes for the business

  • Plans deployment

  • Engages stakeholders

  • Drives execution

  • Monitors and reports implementation status

  • Create benchmark methodology, collect and organize data for use on asset lifecycle process element assessments and deployment reporting

  • Travel to operating facilities as needed (approximately 25-50%)



Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or other STEM discipline

  • 5+ years' of progressive experience in plant leadership roles with a focus on asset management, engineering, and business improvement

  • Demonstrated ability to work at a plant facility and provide value

  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities, ability to pivot when priorities change

  • Effective communication skills, ability to produce and deliver presentations to senior management

  • Advanced skills in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio

  • Ability to travel to operating facilities as needed (25-50%)



Preferred Qualifications

  • CMRP, CRE, PMP or similar certification

  • 5+ years' experience implementing maintenance, reliability or asset management systems, example ISO 55001, PAS 55 or other

  • Experience with PowerBI

Excited about this role but don't think you meet every requirement listed? Studies have shown that applicants may self "select-out" of consideration if they don't meet all posted qualifications. We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check. Relocation assistance is available for this opportunity.

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Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are cornerstones of ADM's efforts to continue innovating, driving growth, and delivering outstanding performance. We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce and create welcoming, truly inclusive work environments - environments that enable every ADM colleague to feel comfortable on the job, make meaningful contributions to our success, and grow their career. We respect and value the unique backgrounds and experiences that each person can bring to ADM because we know that diversity of perspectives makes us better, together.

We welcome everyone to apply. We are committed to ensuring all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, language, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law

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Job Post Date: 08/06/26
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