Facilities Lead - 1st Shift

We are Reckitt

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.

​Manufacturing​

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

Our Facilities Lead offers expertise of the site wide utilities to the Facilities, Maintenance and Engineering teams.  This role will direct, perform and supervise corrective and planned maintenance activities to facility equipment and ensure the building and site is maintained to the correct standards. Responsible to ensure safe working conditions, minimize downtime of equipment, and to produce high quality consumer products. The position must work with a sense of urgency to ensure the demanding needs of keeping the plant and all of the utilities operational 24/7 as necessary.

Your responsibilities

• Coordinates utilities and building maintenance in conjunction with production requirements.
• Manages contractors for service and maintenance activities related to grounds, building and utilities.
• Manages projects for continuous improvement activities or planned maintenance shutdowns
• Inspects production equipment for mechanical defects and coordinates repairs to improve efficiency and ensure standards are consistently met.
• Coaches and develops department staff to ensure a consistent service and enhance quality and quantity of employee work.
• Inspects department facilities and reports damage to Facilities Manager and Production Managers when necessary
• Coordinates and prioritizes emergency repairs to minimize downtime and / or items that will affect quality and safety.
• Analyses and recommends safety improvements to ensure a safe working environment.
• Lead and develop continuous improvement of the performance of the team and equipment and process at site.
• Communicate with internal customers and support functions to ensure delivery of KPI’s.
• Lead/co-ordination of breakdown and engineering activities for the facilities equipment.
• Complete route cause analysis, in line with down time procedure to Identify and implement preventative solutions.
• Support successful implementation of planned maintenance and new projects.
• Use escalation process for line stoppages or breakdowns in excess of 15 mins or two consecutive hours of below target OEE.
• Ensure legal and regulatory compliance in respect of safety, cGMP and quality systems

The experience we're looking for

• Facility maintenance experience in vitamin, food, chemical, or pharmaceutical environment. Other facility related type maintenance will be considered.
• Good working knowledge of plant utilities including HVAC, steam boilers, cooling water, Purified Water, dust collection, compressed air, wastewater treatment
• Analytical skills with drive to implement improvements
• Understanding of building and facilities management processes / systems and EP608A refrigerated systems preferred.

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Relationship management, Business acumen, 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.