Process Engineer (Associate), R&D (Chemical/Ag/Biological/Food)

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.

​Research & Development​

In R&D, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance. 

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

North America (NA) Innovation Process Engineering is the R&D function responsible for developing the manufacturing process and scale-up of new formulations launching in the North America marketplace. The North America team is based in Evansville, IN, and works closely with Innovation Product Development, Supply Technical, supply, procurement, and commercial teams to identify and deliver projects that drive revenue growth and create new and innovative products that Nourish the World’s Children for the Best Start in Life.   

The role of a Process Engineer in NA Innovation Process Engineering is to implement functional specific work associated with infant and child nutrition innovation projects and portfolios, leading the delivery of projects and solving technical problems. The Process Engineer is responsible for leading and executing work on specific projects and delivering against team key performance indicators. The job is dynamic and complex, and the challenges you will face will give you the possibility to learn and develop.

Scope / dimensions of role

• Process Engineering deliverables for Innovation projects in the IFCN product portfolio with an emphasis on speed-to-market and exceptional quality. 
• To work with partners (product development, supply, regulatory, nutritional science, PMO, Supply technical, R&D Operations) to deliver projects/solutions across the infant and child nutrition portfolio

Your responsibilities

•    Serves as R&D Process Engineering representative or Team Leader for projects with functional or cross-functional teams to accomplish objectives of innovation projects.
•    Develop and deliver influencing and strategic technical communication to key stakeholders, management, and team members with compelling technical recommendations and the business case for implementation.  
•    Responsible for simulating, developing, and optimizing processes to fully leverage varying manufacturing capabilities at domestic and international sites.
•    Plan, execute, and evaluate experiments from bench-top through commercialization, including scale-up and qualification, of existing and new manufacturing processes across all IFCN product categories.
•    Coordination and, when necessary, operation of instrumentation for in-process sample testing and finished product testing. 
•    Applies sufficient understanding of instrumentation, process control, and all unit operations in a technology platform toward development of Functional Requirements governing process design and control.  
•    Collaborate with other technical disciplines, such as Product Development Scientists, Package Engineers, Plant Engineer, and Project Engineers to solve problems while working across boundaries and applying knowledge gained from colleagues.  
•    Where applicable, manage Process Engineering Associates to accomplish department objectives and develop the engin