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Head of Maintenance

City: Johannesburg

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 Head of Maintenance will lead the site’s maintenance and asset care strategy to ensure safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective performance of manufacturing, utilities, facilities, and infrastructure assets. Drive Reckitt Production System, Asset Care excellence, equipment reliability, continuous improvement, and long-term asset performance while fulfilling GMR 2.1/2.7 statutory responsibilities.

Your responsibilities

Lead the site Asset Care strategy and long-term maintenance and reliability roadmap, aligned with RPS and business priorities.
Own RPS Asset Care standards, driving preventive and predictive maintenance, breakdown elimination, operator asset care and continuous reliability improvement.
Lead maintenance across manufacturing, utilities and facilities to deliver uptime, OEE, reliability and cost targets.
Ensure safe, efficient and compliant operation of site utilities, engineering systems and infrastructure.
Fulfil GMR 2.1/2.7 responsibilities and maintain compliance with applicable safety, quality, environmental and regulatory requirements.
Drive root cause analysis, CAPA, loss elimination and data-led improvements to equipment performance.
Lead and develop Maintenance, Utilities, Reliability and Engineering Support teams, building strong technical capability and succession pipelines.
Manage maintenance budgets, contractors and spare parts while identifying savings and optimizing asset lifecycle costs.
Partner cross-functionally and support capital projects from concept through commissioning and handover.
Represent Engineering as a key member of the Site Leadership Team.

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering.
GCC Factories (Mandatory).
Minimum 8-10 years FMCG manufacturing engineering experience.
Minimum 5 years' leadership experience managing maintenance and engineering functions.
Proven experience leading maintenance transformation and asset care systems.
Strong knowledge of RPS, TPM, World Class Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing or equivalent systems.
Experience managing utilities, facilities, and manufacturing assets.
Demonstrated leadership in safety, quality, reliability, and cost improvement.

The skills for success

Strategy, Reliability, Transformation, Coaching, Influence, Problem-solving, Commerciality, Execution, Safety, Decision-making, Improvement, Expertise, Resilience, Communication

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.

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