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Maintenance Lead
Reckitt Supply & Maintenance Lead Role
We are Reckitt—home to the world's best-loved hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose drives us: to protect, heal, and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world.
Supply Team Overview
Our supply chain is the backbone of our operations, ensuring products reach people worldwide safely and efficiently. While considering a career in supply chain, you’re in the right place. Reckitt offers diverse opportunities including:
- Global Supply Planning – Develop and implement global supply strategies.
- Procurement Centre of Excellence – Negotiate and manage supplier relationships.
- Manufacturing Excellence – Improve efficiency, quality, and safety.
- Logistics Excellence – Innovate distribution methods to reach customers effectively.
About The Role
Maintenance Lead (Permanent, Full Time – Nottingham, NG90 – On Site)
You’ll serve as a hands-on technical leader responsible for ensuring equipment reliability, performance, and compliance within a regulated OTC Health environment.
Key Responsibilities
Breakdown Elimination & Reliability Improvement
- Own the Cell Breakdown Elimination (BDE) system, leading root-cause analyses for major losses.
- Drive sustainable, data-driven countermeasures using structured problem-solving frameworks.
- Develop equipment reliability strategies to minimise unplanned downtime.
- Analyse failure data and loss trees to prioritise improvement initiatives.
- Ensure alignment with technical standards, critical spares strategies, and maintenance excellence frameworks.
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
- Lead maintenance planning and scheduling for the cell.
- Develop and maintain preventive maintenance (PM) plans tied to equipment criticality.
- Overseer effective scheduling, material readiness, and PM compliance tracking.
- Improve execution quality of planned maintenance activities.
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Zero Loss Mindset
- Champion the IWS Zero Loss initiative within the cell team.
- Eliminate recurring chronic equipment losses impacting SQDCS (Safety, Quality, Downtime, Cost, Service) metrics.
- Drive improvement plans through loss intelligence and data-driven actions.
Engineering Support to Projects
- Provide engineering expertise for CAPEX and productivity projects.
- Support the development of User Requirements Specifications (URS), design reviews, FAT/SAT, and commissioning.
- Ensure maintainability and reliability are embedded in new/improved equipment designs.
Capability Building & Coaching
- Train and coach team members in:
- Condition Improvement Lean (CIL) & defect handling protocols.
- Basic condition monitoring techniques.
- Foster operator equipment ownership to enhance technical capability.
Standards, Compliance & Safety
- Ensure adherence to GMP, EHS (Environmental Health & Safety), and engineering standards.
- Maintain engineering risk assessments and permit-to-work systems.
Experience Required
- Qualified engineer (or equivalent technical experience).
- Strong background in maintenance planning, scheduling, and equipment reliability.
- Experience in a regulated environment (preferably GMP-/GxP-aligned).
- Knowledge of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Industrial Welfare Society (IWS) methodologies.
- Demonstrated root-cause analysis skills; proven ability to reduce equipment failures and losses.
- Outstanding leadership and coaching abilities, with influence across multidisciplinary teams.
- Data literacy: ability to analyse trends, identify insights, and apply learnings.
- Experience in engineering projects, commissioning, or capital expenditure (CAPEX) execution.
- Commitment to safety, compliance, and meticulous process discipline.
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What We Offer
We are committed to inclusion, growth, and wellbeing. Our benefits include:
- Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) supporting diverse voices.
- Competitive parental leave policies and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health support.
- Life insurance coverage for all employees worldwide.
- Local-market-aligned benefits and flexible working conditions where applicable.
Reckitt’s success is also yours. Through our:
- Global share schemes (opportunity to save/share in company progress).
- Short-term incentives (for standout performance in eligible roles).
- Pay-for-performance philosophy (equitable compensation reflecting contributions).
Commitment to Equality
We hire for potential and recognise that great talent isn’t defined by a single checkbox. If this role resonates with you—even if you don’t meet all requirements—we want to hear from you.
We adhere to strict equality principles, ensuring consideration is given without regard to: Age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity/expression, religion, sexual orientation, care responsibilities, protected veteran status, or other protected characteristics.
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