Global Engineering Manager - Germ Protection

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.

Supply

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

The purpose of this role is to provide global technical leadership for the Germ Protection category (our fastest growing category globally), ensuring manufacturing technologies, product delivery systems, and process capabilities support growth, innovation, quality, compliance, sustainability, and operational excellence across the Reckitt network.

The Global Engineering Manager will own the technology roadmap for Germ Protection manufacturing and serve as the global subject matter expert for category-specific processes and equipment used in the production of antiseptics, disinfectants, wipes, toilet bowl cleaners, and related hygiene products.

Working across Engineering, R&D, Supply, Quality, Procurement, and Operations, the role will identify, develop, standardize, and deploy manufacturing technologies and best practices that improve safety, quality, efficiency, cost, and speed to market across the global manufacturing network.

The role requires strong technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across a complex matrix organization while driving continuous improvement and innovation.

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

Your responsibilities

• Serve as the global technical authority for Germ Protection manufacturing technologies, defining category technical strategy and long-term technology roadmaps aligned to business growth objectives.
• Provide subject matter expertise across a broad portfolio of manufacturing processes, including 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 to drive operational consistency and performance.
• 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, supporting feasibility assessments, technology selection, scale-up activities, and successful 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.

The experience we're looking for

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of manufacturing or engineering experience within FMCG, household care, hygiene, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or related industries.
• 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.

Preferred

• 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 related discipline.
• Lean Six Sigma certification.
• Experience with digital manufacturing

The skills for success

• Technical & Manufacturing Expertise
• Leadership & Strategic Skills
• Project & Innovation Management
• Operational Excellence
• Quality, Safety & Complaince

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 $163,000.00 - $245,000.00

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 [email protected]. 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.