Area Strategic Engineering Projects Director - NA

About the role

Looking for a career where your influence will resonate on a regional and global scale? As the Strategic Projects Engineering Director (North America) for Reckitt, you'll guide our supply network towards efficient processes that bolster our company's growth. Your leadership will not only touch the lives of our consumers but also shape the strategies driving Reckitt's supply services.

Responsibilities

• Craft your legacy by transforming our supply chain into a harmonious ecosystem that facilitates innovation, nurtures talent, and ensures seamless operations in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Lead enterprise-critical engineering investment programmes, including scope, resourcing, risk management, and performance tracking.
• Translate business priorities into executable engineering and capital project plans.
• Provide senior leadership across multidisciplinary engineering activities, ensuring consistency and technical excellence.
• Drive implementation of global standards and delivery processes.
• Build and lead high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams. Foster a culture of accountability, safety, and quality.
• Identify capability gaps and strengthen technical and leadership capability across the team.
• Partner with engineering, operations, finance, and leadership teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Collaborate with site leadership to ensure operational readiness. Act as the primary interface for key stakeholders.
• Define programme structure, milestones, and success metrics. Manage technical, operational, financial, and schedule risks.
• Provide updates to senior leadership. Optimise CAPEX budgets to drive cost efficiency and ROI.
• Ensure adherence to standards, regulatory requirements, and governance frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline.
• Minimum 15+ years of progressive engineering experience, including leadership of large, complex, capital-intensive engineering and construction programs.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully leading large-scale greenfield and brownfield CAPEX programs with total investment values of $300M+
• Strong, proven leadership capability, with the ability to influence, align, and drive performance across cross-functional, matrixed, and geographically dispersed teams.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and senior stakeholder-management skills, with the credibility to operate effectively at executive level.
• Deep knowledge of program and project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and capital delivery best practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to make sound decisions in complex, high-risk environments.
• Hands-on experience with Vertical Startup methodologies, and exposure to Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with a strategic mindset, translating business strategy into executable engineering and investment plans.

Desirable

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Business (MBA), or a related field.
• Strong working knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements relevant to CPG, Consumer Health, and OTC manufacturing environments.
• Professional certification such as PMP, PgMP, or equivalent program/project management credentials.
• Experience leading regional or global engineering organizations across multiple sites and geographies.
• Proven experience working within a multinational, matrixed organization, including leadership of cross-cultural teams and programs executed across diverse regions.