Process Engineering Lead - Manufacturing

About the role

Reckitt is 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. Our supply chain is the backbone of our business, getting trusted products to people all over the world safely and efficiently.

Join Reckitt as a Manufacturing Process Engineer and play a key role in driving operational excellence across our manufacturing operations. This position supports daily production activities while leading continuous improvement initiatives that enhance safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance. Working closely with Operations, Quality, R&D, and Engineering teams, you will use data-driven decision making, Lean principles, and problem-solving methodologies to optimize processes, improve equipment reliability, and ensure efficient, compliant production. The ideal candidate is a hands-on problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. You will lead improvement projects, support process validation and new product introductions, drive waste and downtime reduction efforts, and help strengthen operator capability through training and documentation excellence. This role offers the opportunity to make a measurable impact on manufacturing performance while contributing to Reckitt's culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time.

Responsibilities

• Monitor manufacturing performance and analyze Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and People metrics to identify and implement improvement opportunities within the Reckitt Production System (RPS).
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, root cause analysis, and CAPA methodologies to optimize processes, improve reliability, and resolve operational challenges.
• Support process changes, validations, documentation updates, and equipment or process troubleshooting to ensure efficient and compliant operations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams on new product introductions, technology transfers, equipment commissioning, and manufacturing optimization projects.
• Ensure compliance with GMP, ISO, safety, and sustainability requirements while driving waste reduction, minimizing downtime, and strengthening operator capability through training and best-practice implementation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field, with at least 3 years of manufacturing or process engineering experience in FMCG, pharmaceutical, food, chemical, or similar production environments.
• Experience leading process improvement initiatives utilizing Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, root cause analysis, and other continuous improvement methodologies to enhance operational performance.
• Experience troubleshooting manufacturing processes and equipment, analyzing production data, implementing process controls, and driving corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Experience working within regulated manufacturing environments and supporting compliance with GMP, ISO, food safety, or similar quality and regulatory standards.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams on capital projects, equipment commissioning, technology transfers, process validations, training initiatives, and operational improvement efforts in a fast-paced manufacturing setting.

Skills

• Continuous Improvement
• Lean Manufacturing
• Process Optimization
• Root Cause Analysis
• CAPA Management
• Process Validation
• Manufacturing Analytics
• Regulatory Compliance
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Equipment Troubleshooting

Benefits

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