Job Description

Job Summary

Are you passionate about creating safer workplaces while making a meaningful impact on manufacturing operations?

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

Global Operations: Ensuring excellence in execution—from procurement to supply chain and reliability—delivering quality, safety, efficiency and sustainability across the value chain.

The Environmental Health & Safety Specialist role is based in Memphis, Tennessee (onsite role).

This position serves as the site's primary resource for environmental compliance, permitting, regulatory reporting, and environmental risk management while also supporting occupational safety and Process Safety Management initiatives. The role supports four manufacturing units and a wastewater treatment operation, partnering closely with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with air, water, waste, and chemical management requirements and maintain the site's license to operate.

Be part of a collaborative, safety-focused, solution-oriented, and growth-oriented team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact.

Your potential is our inspiration.

The Memphis, Tennessee facility has an exciting opportunity for an Environmental Health & Safety Specialist. This role supports environmental, health, and safety compliance and performance across the Memphis site, including four manufacturing units and a wastewater pH treatment facility. The Health & Safety Specialist helps manage environmental and operational risks while supporting the site's commitment to maintaining regulatory compliance and its license to operate.

This position serves as a key resource for interpreting regulations, implementing compliance programs, supporting continuous improvement initiatives, and partnering with operations and leadership teams to strengthen environmental, health, and safety performance.

The role collaborates with both local and corporate teams to ensure management systems remain effective and support the continued growth of the site.

Where You'll Make a Difference

• Serve as a key environmental compliance resource for the site, providing technical guidance and ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local environmental regulations.
• Own and support environmental permitting and compliance programs, including air permits, wastewater permits, hazardous waste management, stormwater compliance, chemical reporting, permit renewals, and regulatory submissions.
• Prepare, review, and submit environmental reports and compliance documentation while maintaining strong relationships with regulatory agencies and supporting environmental inspections and audits.
• Lead environmental compliance assessments, identify risks and compliance gaps, and implement corrective and preventive actions to maintain the site's license to operate.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance teams to evaluate process changes, capital projects, and Management of Change activities for environmental compliance impacts.
• Support the site's commitment to achieving zero occupational injuries and illnesses through proactive risk identification, hazard reduction, and prevention initiatives.
• Provide leadership and support for Process Safety Management programs, including Management of Change, Process Hazard Analysis, and risk assessments.
• Lead or participate in investigations of environmental incidents, permit exceedances, near misses, workplace injuries, and compliance events utilizing Root Cause Analysis methodologies.
• Develop and deliver environmental, health, and safety training programs while preparing procedures, standards, and compliance documentation that strengthen site environmental stewardship and safety culture.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Safety, Occupational Health, or a related discipline with at least two years of Environmental Health & Safety experience.
• Alternatively, a minimum of five years of relevant Environmental Health & Safety experience in a manufacturing, industrial, chemical, food, or operations environment.
• Hands-on experience managing environmental compliance programs within a manufacturing, chemical, food, industrial, or wastewater treatment environment.·
• Experience with environmental permitting, permit interpretation, permit renewals, regulatory reporting, inspections, compliance audits, and agency interactions related to air emissions, wastewater, hazardous waste, stormwater, or chemical management programs.
• Strong understanding of Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations and safe work practices, including confined space entry, line breaking, lockout/tagout, respiratory protection, contractor safety, and occupational safety programs.
• Experience conducting environmental and safety audits, inspections, risk assessments, incident investigations, and compliance evaluations.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Technology, Quality, Training, Research and Development, and corporate functions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare regulatory reports, develop procedures, deliver training, and interact effectively with regulatory agencies.
• Ability to analyze environmental performance data, compliance metrics, monitoring results, and operational trends to identify risks, implement corrective actions, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

How Would You Stand Out?

• Experience serving as the environmental lead for a manufacturing or chemical facility, including ownership of air, wastewater, hazardous waste, and stormwater compliance programs.
• Experience managing environmental permits, permit modifications, agency inspections, environmental reporting, Title V air programs, wastewater treatment systems, Toxic Release Inventory reporting, or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act compliance activities.
• Professional certifications such as Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Safety Professional, Professional Engineer, or Lean Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt.

Why Choose Us?

• Opportunity to support a large-scale manufacturing operation with diverse environmental, health, and safety challenges.
• Exposure to environmental compliance, occupational health, and Process Safety Management programs in a highly regulated environment.
• Collaborative and inclusive culture focused on safety, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Professional development opportunities, including certification and leadership growth.
• Access to a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k)
• Opportunity to make a direct impact on employee safety, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.

For your awareness, IFF has announced its intention to sell its Food Ingredients Business to CVC Capital Partners. The sale is currently expected to close in the first half of 2027, pending regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

The Food Ingredient business unit will remain part of IFF until close and, at such time, will transition to CVC Capital Partners. By applying for this position, candidates acknowledge awareness that the role is part of the Food Ingredient business unit and has been identified to transition to CVC Capital Partners.

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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