Maintenance Data Planner

IFF•Tastepoint North, PA, USA, PA

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences, delivering sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. This position is for a Maintenance Planner in Philadelphia, responsible for planning and coordinating maintenance activities across the Tastepoint North (TPN) and Taste point South (TPS) manufacturing facilities. The role involves managing databases and KPIs with SAP and is on the day shift. The Maintenance Planner acts as a link between operations and maintenance execution, ensuring work is properly scoped, resourced, and documented in SAP Plant Maintenance (PM). This includes maintaining accurate equipment records and Functional Location (FLOC) hierarchies, reviewing and processing maintenance requests, prioritizing and classifying them, converting them into actionable work, generating maintenance orders, scoping work, defining crafts, and assigning tasks. The role also involves creating and maintaining preventive and predictive maintenance plans, tracking equipment performance through measuring documents to support condition-based maintenance triggers, identifying recurring failures and bad-actor equipment, supporting root cause analysis and PM optimization, and maintaining complete and accurate maintenance records for audits, inspections, and compliance.

Requirements

At least 5 years in Maintenance Planning.
Experience handling databases.
Knowledge of a CMMS platform (SAP PM strongly preferred; experience with Limble, Fiix, Maximo, or similar acceptable with willingness to train on SAP).
Mechanical and/or electrical aptitude sufficient to scope work, read drawings, and estimate labor and materials.
Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).
Ability to build basic reports and schedules.
Familiarity with safety practices including LOTO, hot work, confined space, and general PPE requirements.

Nice To Haves

Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to coordinate effectively with mechanics, operators, supervisors, and contractors.
Strong organizational and planning skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Responsibilities

Plan and coordinate maintenance activities across TPN and TPS manufacturing facilities.
Manage databases and KPIs with SAP Plant Maintenance (PM).
Maintain accurate equipment records and Functional Location (FLOC) hierarchies in SAP.
Review and process maintenance requests submitted by operations.
Prioritize, classify, and convert maintenance requests into actionable work.
Generate maintenance orders, scope the work, define crafts, and assign tasks.
Create and maintain preventive and predictive maintenance plans.
Set up track equipment performance through measuring documents to support condition-based maintenance triggers.
Identify recurring failures and bad-actor equipment.
Support root cause analysis and PM optimization.
Maintain complete and accurate maintenance records to support internal audits, regulatory inspections, and PSM/Mechanical Integrity compliance.