Process Engineering Lead - Manufacturing

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.

Your

• ◆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

while driving waste reduction, minimizing downtime, and strengthening operator capability through training and best-practice implementation.

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

• ✓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.

The skills for success

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

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.