Manufacturing Excellence Manager

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

About The Role

We are seeking an engineering leader eager to make an impact! Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations. As the Manufacturing Excellence Manager within one of our agile-factory teams, you'll be the spark that drives project efficiency and innovation. Be at the forefront of managing an exceptional team, turning strategic plans into reality and leading the charge in our manufacturing success. Standard engineering is not what we do – we're about pioneering. If you're passionate about leading change and enhancing how we operate, you could be the perfect fit for us.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the Manufacturing Excellence journey through implementation of Reckitt Production Systems (R-PS) blueprints across the site
• Capability building of the site ensuring R-PS tools as standard way of working for all applicable areas
• Lead the manufacturing productivity model with focus to drive cost efficiency and optimization, responsible for delivering productivity pipeline and productivity targets
• Responsible for driving process, planning, and site continuous improvement projects at the site
• Monitoring, and analysis of operational KPIs with focus on simplification and improvement of processes and systems to drive productivity and cost saving opportunities.
• Create the governance on site level in executing the R-PS roadmap and facilitate the periodic reporting and reviews of productivity and R-PS maturity progress at site leadership level
• Train and coach site resources (front line and management) in the implementation and execution of Continuous Improvement through R-PS tools and routines, specifically in establishing effective Operational Reviews, Root Cause Problem Solving, and application of Lean tools in Kaizen events to optimize work and reduce targeted losses.
• Ensure tacking of all performance improvement initiatives on implementation status (L1 through L5) maturity in Anaplan, liaising with the Finance function on the valuation of the initiatives and keeping the initiative pipeline and status actual.
  
  

The experience we're looking for

• A university degree in Engineering, preferably Mechanical or Electrical
• Minimum of 05 years’ experience in leading Continuous Improvement / Manufacturing Excellence / Lean initiatives in a manufacturing environment
• Handle at least 02 pilot projects independently
• Good knowledge in development of operational excellence
• Effective team player, leadership, and communication skills
• Demonstrated abilities to plan, prioritize and delegate work assignments
• Convincing ability with rationale based to provide comfort to higher management
  
  

The skills for success

• Able to develop leaders, trainers, coaches, and front-line staff in different levels of the manufacturing site on the R-PS standards (including lean tools and routines such as effective operational reviews, basic root cause analysis and problem solving, operator asset care / autonomous maintenance, loss tree, 5S etc.)
• Demonstrated capability in relationship building skills with all levels and functions from shop floor to Site Director
• Strong coaching and developing skills
• Problem Solving
• Action oriented and Decision maker
  
  

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.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.