Process Safety Specialist

Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and make a real impact?

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.

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 in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico (On site model). Be part of a passionate team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

- Participate in hazard identification and risk assessments for processes, equipment, and systems.
- Prescribe safeguards and controls for hazards such as flammables, toxics, and reactive chemicals.
- Develop process knowledge documentation covering material, process, and equipment design basis.
- Evaluate new or modified processes through a robust management of change system.
- Ensure subject-matter expertise involvement to assess EHS impacts.
- Apply RAGAGEP for design, installation, operation, and maintenance of process equipment.
- Monitor process safety performance, track KPIs, and report metrics to site management.
- Lead or participate in incident investigations to mitigate hazards and prevent recurrence.

What Makes You the Right Fit

- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science or related field (or equivalent education and experience).
- Minimum 2 years of experience in site process safety programs.
- Knowledge of RAGAGEP and technical standards application.
- Experience in process safety compliance audits or inspections.
- Ability to lead process hazard analysis (PHA) or risk assessments.
- Strong planning and organizational skills.
- Technical knowledge of industrial safeguards and process controls.

How Would You Stand Out?

- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong critical thinking and relationship-building abilities.
- Proficient in data management

Why Choose Us?

- Comprehensive Health & Wellness Coverage
- Continuous Learning & Development
- Life Insurance and Pension Plan

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Responsibilities

Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment

- Participate in or lead hazard identification risk assessments for facility processes, equipment, and systems.
- Prescribe required safeguards and controls for various hazards (e.g., combustible dust, acute toxics, corrosives, flammables, asphyxiants, reactive chemistry, hazardous kinetic energy).

Process Knowledge

- Build documentation and references to create a process knowledge package for all processes defined as a process safety risk.
- Cover process material design, process design basis, and equipment design basis in the documentation.

Management of Change

- Evaluate new and changes to existing processes, equipment, and systems for process hazards using a robust management of change system.
- Ensure roles for subject-matter expertise are filled to adequately assess potential EHS impacts.

Compliance with Standards

- Apply Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP) for process equipment design, installation, operation, maintenance, and test and inspection practices.

Monitoring & Measurement

- Monitor process safety performance to meet goals and objectives established by the Global Process Safety competency.

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