Reliability Engineer

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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.

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The Reliability Engineering is accountable for transforming asset performance across the factory from a reactive maintenance environment to a preventive and proactive reliability-driven operation.

The role focuses on maximizing equipment uptime, improving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and building sustainable maintenance capabilities for a fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) environment producing liquids and aerosols in bottles and cans.

This position plays a key leadership role in:

• Establishing adata-driven maintenance strategy from the ground up
• Driving losses understanding, elimination, and prevention
• Building technical capability across maintenance and production teams
• Digitizing maintenance systems through a CMMS implementation

• Develop and execute reliability strategies to improve asset performance, transitioning maintenance from reactive to predictive while driving OEE, MTBF, and MTTR improvements
• Lead loss elimination efforts using RCA, FMEA, and continuous improvement methods to resolve chronic failures and sustain performance gains
• Implement and optimize CMMS and digital maintenance systems to enhance work order management, preventive maintenance, data accuracy, and KPI tracking
• Build and develop high-performing teams by coaching reliability practices, strengthening technical capabilities, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
• Manage capital projects and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring reliability standards in equipment design/installation while aligning with Production, Quality, Supply Chain, and EHS priorities

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering (or equivalent)
• 8–10 years of experience in maintenance/reliability within FMCG or similar high-speed manufacturing environments
• Designing and implementing maintenance strategies from scratch
• Reliability engineering tools and methodologies
• CMMS implementation and digital transformation
• Experience with liquid filling and/or aerosol production environment sis highly desirable

Technical

• Strong understanding of:
  • Preventive & predictive maintenance systems
  • Asset reliability and lifecycle management
  • High-speed packaging equipment
  • Control and Automation
  • Mixing Process
• Data-driven decision making and analytical skills

Leadership

• Strong people leadership and coaching capabilities
• Ability to drive execution and behavioural change
• Influencing skills across all organizational levels

Operational Excellence

• Passion for execution, discipline, and continuous improvement
• Strong problem-solving mindset
• Experience in Lean / TPM / Manufacturing Excellence systems
• Ability to work cross-functionally and align stakeholders
• Experience managing…