Global Engineering Manager - Germ Protection
About The Position
The Global Engineering Manager provides global technical leadership for Reckitt’s Germ Protection category, ensuring manufacturing technologies, product delivery systems, and process capabilities support growth, innovation, quality, compliance, sustainability, and operational excellence across the company’s manufacturing network. The role owns the technology roadmap for Germ Protection manufacturing and serves as the global subject matter expert for category-specific processes and equipment used to produce antiseptics, disinfectants, wipes, toilet bowl cleaners, and related hygiene products. Working across Engineering, R&D, Supply, Quality, Procurement, and Operations, the role identifies, develops, standardizes, and deploys manufacturing technologies and best practices to improve safety, quality, efficiency, cost, and speed to market. It calls for strong technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across a complex matrix organization while driving continuous improvement and innovation. The role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least 10 years of manufacturing or engineering experience in FMCG, household care, hygiene, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or a related industry.
- Significant experience with Germ Protection or adjacent product categories, including disinfectants, antiseptics, wipes, household cleaners, or chemical-based consumer products.
- Strong understanding of liquid manufacturing, batching, mixing, transfer systems, and packaging operations.
- Experience supporting global or multi-site manufacturing operations.
- Demonstrated success leading technology deployment, process improvement, and capital projects.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with wipes manufacturing and nonwoven technologies.
- Knowledge of disinfectant and antiseptic active ingredient systems.
- Experience managing technology strategy across multiple regions.
- Experience managing factory expansion or greenfield projects.
- Advanced degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
- Lean Six Sigma certification.
- Experience with digital manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the global technical authority for Germ Protection manufacturing technologies, defining category technical strategy and long-term technology roadmaps aligned with business growth objectives.
- Provide subject matter expertise across manufacturing processes for antiseptics, disinfectants, surface cleaners, toilet bowl cleaners, wipes, chemical hygiene products, aerosols, and bar soaps.
- Develop and deploy global best practices for mixing, blending, dosing, chemical handling, cleaning and sanitization, wipes converting, and material transfer systems.
- Establish and implement global manufacturing standards, preferred technology platforms, equipment specifications, and supplier strategies across the Germ Protection network.
- Partner with R&D and cross-functional teams to industrialize new products, including feasibility assessments, technology selection, scale-up activities, and commercialization.
- Provide technical leadership for major capital projects, including URS development, equipment selection, design reviews, commissioning, and technical governance of strategic investments.
- Drive operational excellence through continuous improvement, productivity and capacity enhancement initiatives, root cause investigations, digital manufacturing technologies, and compliance with quality, safety, regulatory, and environmental standards.
Benefits
- Parental benefits, including 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent.
- Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health.
- Life insurance.
- Global share plans.
- Annual discretionary bonus for the role.
- Medical insurance.
- Prescription insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Disability insurance.
- Paid time off for vacation, sick leave, and company-recognized holidays.
- 401(k) plan.
- Adoption and fertility support.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee discounts.
- Other benefits in line with the local market.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
