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Site Hygienist

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.

Research & Development

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D/ Quality , giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

Your responsibilities

Drives the site hygienic design risk assessment program, completing hygienic design assessment checklists and FMEA risk assessments as required ensuring microbiological risks are suitably controlled and any requirements for CAPEX investment are escalated.
Ensuring provision of microbiological expertise by working with Engineering teams on both new factory installations and assessment of existing equipment for the site.
Active member in the global Hygienic Design Community of Excellence (COE) to foster best practice sharing and act as the forum for gap assessing new regulations or standards in hygienic design.
Stays current with updates to Hygienic Design practices through review of technical articles and/or attendance at key industry hygienic design workshops or meetings.
Liaises with the Global Hygienic Design COE, ensuring Global Hygienic Design best practices are implemented at the site.
Acts as the sanitation supervisor to support the Site cleaning & sanitation program in collaboration with facilities & technical team.
Supports the Global Hygienist for development of hygienic design and microbiological guidance documents.
Sanitization Team member and work closely with the Quality team on assessments of microbiological risks and support for batch release issues.
Support site risk assessments, evaluating issues, risks, equipment and operating requirements to ensure hygienic design is incorporated.
Develops and implements Hygienic Design Awareness training for Engineers, Operations, Quality and Technical teams.
Lead and support investigations using problem solving skills to enable effective root cause of quality issues and implementation of corrective and preventative measures.
Provides microbiological expertise for regulatory submissions and assessment of microbiological testing requirements in conjunction with the site microbiologist.
Support Site Microbiology laboratory as needed on out of trend or out of specification investigations.
Providing microbiological expertise for regulatory authority inspections.
Conduct internal and external quality audits as required.

The experience we're looking for

BS in Microbiology or related science.
Member of professional body preferred.
5+ years of experience in Quality, Microbiological, GMP manufacturing or similar setting.
Collaborative working relationship with cross-functional business partners (Supply, R&D, Technical, Quality).
Identified hygienic design gaps for equipment and against Reckitt Hygienic Design standards completed and the ability to clearly communicate hygienic design gaps to Site and Regional leadership.
Strong preventative cleaning and sanitation program sitewide.

The skills for success

Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management.

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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