Maintenance Manager

Job Summary

Are you ready to lead a high performing maintenance team and drive worldclass reliability across a complex manufacturing facility?

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

Ensuring excellence in execution-from procurement to supply chain and reliability-delivering quality, safety, efficiency,y and sustainability across the value chain.

The Maintenance Manager role is based in Memphis, TN (onsite). Join a proactive, solutions oriented, and growth minded team where together we can achieve operational excellence and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

• 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 longterm 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 rootcause 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.

• 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 highspeed 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.

• Experience leading reliabilitycentered maintenance (RCM) programs.
• Certification in maintenance, reliability, or engineering (e.g., CMRP).
• Demonstrated success driving 5S, Lean, or continuous improvement initiatives.

• Opportunity to influence reliability strategy in a large, high impact production facility.
• Work with a diverse and collaborative team committed to operational excellence.
• Access to ongoing professional development and technical training.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• A company culture committed to safety, sustainability, and innovation.
• The chance to truly "Make Joy" in an environment where your expertise drives meaningful change.

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.

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