Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer

City: Belle Mead

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.

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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

This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time!

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 a data-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

Your responsibilities

• 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

The experience we're looking for

• 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

• Proven experience in:

• 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 environments is highly desirable

The skills for success

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

Project & Collaboration

• Strong project management skills

• Ability to work cross-functionally and align stakeholders

• Experience managing complexity in fast-paced environments

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.

US salary ranges

USD $115,000.00 - $173,000.00

US pay transparency

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year.

Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays; a 401(k) plan; 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; discounts; and much more. Our compensation and benefits packages aim to give our talent the reward, protection, and peace of mind they deserve.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

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.

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