Job Summary
Core responsibilities – Operations & Project Support (60-90%)
- Maintain and hold expertise in Automation & Process Control (A&PC) project execution at IFF.
- Maintain and hold expertise in installation practices across automation systems.
- Provide Automation PL support for Grindsted, Haderslev, and Brabrand sites.
- Ensure compliance with automation standards, including:
- Automation drawing guidelines
- IFF project models
- Instrument standards
- Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
- ATEX regulations
- Communicate network topologies and automation setups effectively to project teams and sites.
Additional Responsibilities – Process Safety & Continuous Improvement (10-40%)
- Maintain and hold expert knowledge within the area of SIS
- Maintain and hold expertise within the area of “Machinery Regulation”
- Maintain and hold expertise for A&PC standard project execution.
This role includes structured training, tailored to the candidate’s starting skill level, ensuring operational competency across all responsibilities. As core responsibilities are mastered, deeper involvement in process safety and continuous improvement will follow.
Job requirements
- Technical Requirements:
- Education: Master’s or Bachelor's degree in automation, operational technology (OT), or related field.
- Hands-on Experience: Expertise in PLC/DCS and SCADA control applications.
- Project Management: Experience in automation-related project work.
- Language Proficiency: Fluent in Danish and English.
Soft skills
- Ability to learn new technical skills proactively.
- Strong adaptability, handling change with an anticipative approach.
- Effective team collaboration in dynamic, multicultural environments.
- Excellent verbal, written, and analytical communication skills.
- Autonomous problem-solving, driving automation improvements independently.
- Ability to teach and present technical designs to employees at all levels.
- Strong project organizational skills.
- Willingness to travel for business to EMEA/USA vendor facilities and other plants.
- Join IFF and become part of a team that drives automation excellence, ensuring efficiency, innovation, and technological advancement in manufacturing operations.
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
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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.
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