About this role
Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Global Operations: Ensuring excellence in execution—from procurement to supply chain and reliability—delivering quality, safety, efficiency and sustainability across the value chain.
This role is based in Taubaté, SP (onsite). You will join a motivated, solution‑oriented, and collaborative team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
Lead and mentor a high‑performing maintenance team, fostering a culture of safety, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
Ensure proper staffing and leadership coverage across all shifts to support 24/7 operations.
Oversee preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize equipment reliability and plant uptime.
Manage maintenance planning, work orders, repairs, calibrations, upgrades, and long‑term infrastructure needs.
Ensure strong CMMS/SAP accuracy related to work orders, PM schedules, spare parts, and equipment history.
Drive measurable improvements in MTTR, MTBF, OEE, and plant asset reliability through targeted corrective actions and root‑cause analyses.
Oversee facility systems including boilers, refrigeration, compressed air, pumps, electrical distribution, and rotating equipment.
Ensure compliance with HACCP, GMPs, PSM, MIQA, and corporate safety requirements.
Lead Stores Room operations, overseeing spare parts accuracy, critical spares stock levels, and vendor coordination.
Partner cross‑functionally with Production, Quality, Engineering, and Manufacturing Technology to align maintenance priorities and improvement initiatives.
What Makes You The Right Fit
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, or related field preferred (equivalent experience considered).
7–12+ years of maintenance leadership experience in manufacturing or complex industrial environments.
Demonstrated success leading maintenance in large‑scale facilities (250+ employees preferred).
Strong background in mechanical reliability, utilities, boilers, pumps, refrigeration, and high‑speed rotating equipment.
Experience in food manufacturing, regulated environments, or other safety‑critical industries.
Proven success implementing preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
Skilled in SAP or other CMMS platforms with strong data accuracy discipline.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all organizational levels.
Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and prioritization abilities.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Green Belt or Black Belt certification
SAP PM
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more
Other facts
About IFF
At IFF, we make joy through science, creativity and heart. As the global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health and biosciences, we deliver groundbreaking, sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products—advancing wellness, delighting the senses and enhancing the human experience.
With ~22,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers and 33,000 customers worldwide, we turn possibilities into reality by redefining the limits of science and nature to create a more positive, sustainable future for all.
Visit us at www.iff.com to learn how our real-deal experts approach work with an entrepreneurial mindset, working lockstep to defy expectations and create industry-defining solutions that do more good for people and planet
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor a maintenance team while overseeing preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize equipment reliability. Ensure compliance with safety regulations and manage maintenance planning and work orders.
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