Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Job Summary

Looking for a role that challenges you while making an impact on products people use every day?

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

Taste : Crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends in flavor building, and fuel market success.

The Maintenance and Reliability Manager role is based in Philadelphia, PA ( onsite ). Be part of a strategic, solution-oriented, and growth-focused team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You'll Make a Difference

• Develop and execute preventive and predictive maintenance strategies to improve equipment reliability and operational efficiency.
• Lead daily maintenance operations, prioritize work orders, and ensure timely resolution of technical issues.
• Champion reliability engineering initiatives such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and condition-based monitoring.
• Own and report on key performance indicators, including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), and downtime metrics.
• Support capital planning and lead maintenance-related capital projects from scope development through execution.
• Manage contractor relationships and oversee procurement and inventory of critical spare parts and maintenance materials.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing maintenance team focused on technical growth and cross-training.
• Collaborate with Production, Quality, Engineering, and Safety teams to align maintenance goals with plant-wide objectives.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, and internal safety standards, integrating Process Safety Management (PSM) principles into maintenance planning.

What Makes You the Right Fit

How Would You Stand Out?

Why Choose Us?

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