Technology Engineer

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Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

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Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

Location: Hull (UK) or Bangplee (THA) or Wilson (US)

Our Global Technology Engineer will focus on the development and deployment of filling, capping, and upstream equipment technology for common production equipment within the Reckitt group, across all categories and geographies. They will provide technical leadership, expertise, and support for equipment and systems related to filling, capping, and upstream equipment technology for liquids and creams packing, and own standardisation of equipment and vendor pool to leverage cost, lead time, efficiency and best practices. 

They will support compliant, reliable, and efficient operation of filling, capping and upstream equipment systems in line with regulatory requirements (e.g., GMP, FDA, MHRA, EU FMD) and other business objectives. The role requires the ability to work in a cross-functional matrix organisation, fostering a continuous improvement culture, with close collaboration with factories for effective implementation of equipment standards. 

Your responsibilities

• Engage cross-functional technical SMEs to set common standards for the related production equipment across categories and geographies. 
• Embed equipment standardisation within the CAPEX process to ensure equipment purchases follow process.
• Engage procurement to develop a vendor pool for self care, and intimate wellness filling, capping, and upstream equipment  assisting in tender processes if required.
• Collaborate with vendors, system integrators, and IT/OT teams for new installations and upgrades.
• Develop URSs and standards for equipment ensuring performance improvement and deploy across the business. Ensure these are aligned to Reckitt and regulatory technical requirements.
• Provide technical advice through maintained up-to-date industry knowledge on filling, capping, and upstream equipment. Becoming the SME on these projects and equipment.
• Delivery and assistsing in delivery of key business Capex projects.
• Provide key technical expertise to support and lead writing and reviewing URS, vendor selection, OEM progress monitoring, factory and site acceptance testing (FAT & SAT) support in support of Site Capital Engineering teams, the location of which will be varied. 
• Review performance and KPI’s for key OEMs.
• In collaboration with Reckitt production system (RPS) and Reliability Engineering monitor equipment performance, reliability, and compliance and link to continuous improvement initiatives. 
• Capture inputs from RPS and Operations teams. Work with vendors to ensure our standards are following the latest technological trends and where possible implement right innovative solutions which fit our business needs.

The experience we're looking for

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in engineering out of which 2 years in a senior project or engineering leadership role in within the consumer-packaged goods or pharmaceutical industry. 
• Knowledge of liquid filling, capping, and blister packing equipment of different product types and technologies.
• Experience in driving equipment standardisation single site or preferably across multisite. 
• Background in Capex management, including project prioritisation, budgeting, and performance monitoring. 
• Experience with global or matrixed organisations; ability to navigate cross-functional and cross-regional complexity.
• Strong technical background with expertise in filling technologies, especially in pharmaceutical or personal care industries.
• Knowledge of filling, capping, and upstream equipment of different viscosity and different types and different technologies.
• Knowledge of process utility requirements including HVAC, drainage, compressed air, power and data networking.  
• Primary material delivery - bulk material feeding and process connection.
• Storage and cleaning requirements and technologies, including dry and wet cleaning (including CIP).
• Willingness to travel as required. 

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Relationship management, Business accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced analytics, Data analytics, Manufacturing excellence.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.