Job Description

Are you ready to lead environmental, health, and safety initiatives that protect people, strengthen culture, and drive continuous improvement across manufacturing operations?

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 role is based at TastePoint, our Philadelphia location – onsite. Be part of a collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact.

Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

• Provide site-level leadership across a multi-site scope with oversight of 3 direct reports across 3 locations, including laboratory environments.
• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) programs and management systems from concept through full execution.
• Drive a proactive safety culture where safety is embedded as a core organizational value across site operations.
• Ensure full compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and local regulatory requirements, as well as internal company standards.
• Own Process Safety Management (PSM) programs, ensuring effective implementation, sustainability, and continuous enhancement.
• Lead incident investigations, performing root cause analysis, and implementing corrective and preventive actions to eliminate recurrence.
• Establish, track, and report key EHS metrics to drive performance, identify trends, and support data-driven decision-making.
• Oversee risk assessments, including Job Safety Analysis (JSA), Industrial Hygiene (IH) monitoring, ergonomic assessments, and workplace inspections.
• Partner cross-functionally (Operations, Engineering, Quality) to ensure EHS requirements are integrated into new products, processes, and capital projects.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of EHS experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience managing Process Safety Management (PSM) and environmental compliance programs.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including management and development of direct reports.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, and applicable environmental and safety regulations.
• Experience developing, implementing, and improving EHS programs end-to-end (from design through execution and sustainability).
• Ability to apply technical EHS knowledge to drive measurable business and safety results.

Why Choose Us?

• Competitive compensation and performance-based incentives
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth
• Inclusive and collaborative workplace culture
• Commitment to sustainability and responsible 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