Technician I, Maintenance
About The Position
Are you ready to support a world-class maintenance organization by ensuring timely and accurate preventive maintenance execution? IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences, delivering sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. Business Unit: Global Operations – Driving excellence in execution across procurement, supply chain, and reliability to deliver quality, safety, efficiency, and sustainability throughout the value chain. The Preventive Maintenance Coordinator role is based onsite in South Brunswick, NJ. Join a detail-oriented, reliability-focused team where your work directly impacts equipment uptime, safety, and operational efficiency. Where You’ll Make a Difference As a Preventive Maintenance Coordinator, you will be responsible for maintaining the accuracy, consistency, and execution readiness of the site’s Preventive Maintenance program. You will manage the creation, updating, scheduling, and reporting of PM activities within the maintenance system to ensure compliance, visibility, and continuous improvement. Your contributions will include: Creating preventive maintenance plans and tasks in SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM). Adding new PM events, task lists, job steps, spare parts, and frequencies to the PM system. Ensuring PMs reflect current equipment needs, safety requirements, and engineering updates. Updating PM statuses, completion notes, and closing work orders as required. Monitoring PM completion performance and schedule adherence. Generating and distributing PM compliance reports to Operations, Maintenance, and site leadership. Supporting audits and data accuracy efforts for PM program compliance. Collaborating with Engineering, Reliability, and Maintenance to incorporate improvements into PMs. Assisting with backlog organization, prioritization, and data cleanup within SAP PM. Maintaining standard work practices for PM creation, updates, and reporting cadence. What Makes You the Right Fit Associate degree in a technical field preferred, or equivalent maintenance/operations experience. 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, or related operational environments. Familiarity with preventive maintenance programs and maintenance workflows. Working knowledge of SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) is a must. Strong attention to detail and ability to manage large volumes of data systematically. Good communication skills to interact with Maintenance, Operations, Reliability, and Engineering teams. Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and meet reporting deadlines. Required Technical Skills SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) Microsoft Excel Power BI (basic dashboard create preferred) Microsoft Outlook & Teams Understanding of PM task lists, job plans, and work order workflows How You’ll Stand Out Experience supporting maintenance planning, scheduling, or reliability initiatives. Background in CMMS data migration or system optimization. Lean Six Sigma Yellow/Green Belt preferred. Ability to audit PM programs and recommend improvements to effectiveness and frequency. 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 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.
Requirements
- Associate degree in a technical field preferred, or equivalent maintenance/operations experience.
- 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, or related operational environments.
- Familiarity with preventive maintenance programs and maintenance workflows.
- Working knowledge of SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) is a must.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage large volumes of data systematically.
- Good communication skills to interact with Maintenance, Operations, Reliability, and Engineering teams.
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and meet reporting deadlines.
- SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM)
- Microsoft Excel
- Power BI (basic dashboard create preferred)
- Microsoft Outlook & Teams
- Understanding of PM task lists, job plans, and work order workflows
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting maintenance planning, scheduling, or reliability initiatives.
- Background in CMMS data migration or system optimization.
- Lean Six Sigma Yellow/Green Belt preferred.
- Ability to audit PM programs and recommend improvements to effectiveness and frequency.
Responsibilities
- Creating preventive maintenance plans and tasks in SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM).
- Adding new PM events, task lists, job steps, spare parts, and frequencies to the PM system.
- Ensuring PMs reflect current equipment needs, safety requirements, and engineering updates.
- Updating PM statuses, completion notes, and closing work orders as required.
- Monitoring PM completion performance and schedule adherence.
- Generating and distributing PM compliance reports to Operations, Maintenance, and site leadership.
- Supporting audits and data accuracy efforts for PM program compliance.
- Collaborating with Engineering, Reliability, and Maintenance to incorporate improvements into PMs.
- Assisting with backlog organization, prioritization, and data cleanup within SAP PM.
- Maintaining standard work practices for PM creation, updates, and reporting cadence.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
