Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health & biosciences, and specialty solutions. We combine science, creativity, and innovation to create products that enrich everyday life.
Digital Transformation: Enabling smarter, more connected operations through data, technology, and digital solutions that drive business performance and operational excellence.
We are seeking a Global Manufacturing Data & OT Engineer - Scent to strengthen the industrial data foundation across our global manufacturing network. In this role, you will bridge shop-floor systems and enterprise platforms, ensuring manufacturing data is reliable, contextualized, and accessible for analytics, operational excellence, and digital transformation initiatives.
Where You'll Make a Difference
- Connect and integrate manufacturing data from PLC, DCS, SCADA, MES, laboratory, and historian systems.
- Support and enhance the AVEVA PI environment, including data collection, asset frameworks, interfaces, analytics, and manufacturing context.
- Apply ISA-88 and ISA-95 principles to structure equipment, process, batch, and production data.
- Ensure high-quality, reliable, and governed industrial data for use by analytics, reporting, MES, and enterprise data platforms.
- Monitor data flows, troubleshoot data quality issues, and coordinate corrective actions with Automation, IT, Manufacturing, and Data teams.
- Support site deployments, commissioning activities, system improvements, and continuous optimization initiatives.
- Promote standards, documentation, and best practices across global Scent manufacturing sites.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Automation, Control Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial IT, Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing automation, industrial data, historian, MES, or IT/OT integration environments.
- Experience with industrial systems such as PLCs, DCS, SCADA, MES, and process historians.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with AVEVA PI or similar historian platforms.
- Knowledge of ISA-88, ISA-95, industrial data integration, and manufacturing data models.
- Experience with SQL and at least one scripting language such as Python or PowerShell.
- Understanding of industrial connectivity technologies including OPC, APIs, and database integrations.
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Professional English proficiency.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Experience in chemical, process manufacturing, flavors & fragrances, life sciences, or related industries.
- Knowledge of MES platforms, OT cybersecurity practices, and industrial networking.
- Experience with Snowflake, Power BI, Seeq, or other analytics platforms.
- Exposure to multi-site manufacturing environments and global deployments.
Why Choose Us?
- Help shape the digital manufacturing future of a global organization.
- Work with cutting-edge technologies across OT, MES, data, and analytics platforms.
- Collaborate with global teams across Manufacturing, Engineering, IT, and Digital functions.
- Grow your expertise in industrial data architecture and smart manufacturing.
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
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Automation, Control Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial IT, Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field
- 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing automation, industrial data, historian, MES, or IT/OT integration environments
- Experience with PLC, DCS, SCADA, MES, and process historian systems
- Hands-on experience with AVEVA PI or similar historian platforms
- Knowledge of ISA-88, ISA-95, industrial data integration, and manufacturing data models
- Experience with SQL and at least one scripting language, such as Python or PowerShell
- Understanding of OPC, APIs, and database integrations
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills
- Professional English proficiency
- Experience in chemical, process manufacturing, flavors and fragrances, life sciences, or related industries
- Knowledge of MES platforms, OT cybersecurity practices, and industrial networking
- Experience with Snowflake, Power BI, Seeq, or other analytics platforms
- Exposure to multi-site manufacturing environments and global deployments
IFF Family of Companies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IFF Family of Companies and has not been reviewed or approved by IFF Family of Companies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles and locations, and compensation is often described as good.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents is in place. This policy is positioned as a notable component of the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Core offerings include paid time off, sick days, holidays, and sabbatical leave. Flexible scheduling options such as compressed workweeks and hybrid/remote arrangements are available where feasible.
IFF Family of Companies Insights
What We Do
Meet IFF: We boldly bring together science and creativity to create what the world needs. An industry leader in food, beverage, health and biosciences, we create essential solutions – from global icons to unexpected innovations and experiences. Equal parts outspoken and analytical, our international collective of thinkers working with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients and solutions for products people crave. With 24,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers across the world, we’re poised to make a difference on an unprecedented scale. Without our boundary-pushing passion and end-to-end expertise, the future wouldn’t be the same. Visit us at www.iff.com to learn more about how our talented people and new technology are challenging the expected, championing creators and doing more good for people and planet. Explore what sets us apart.
