Global Manufacturing Data & OT Engineer - Scent

Ready to help accelerate digital transformation across IFF's global Scent manufacturing network?

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.

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About Us

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. We value an inclusive, creative workplace where all individuals can thrive and do their best work. We consider all qualified candidates equally and based on merit, without regard to religion, ethnicity, national origin, race, age, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or disability.