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Engineering Manager, Mysore

City: Mysore

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 oversee all engineering activities at the site, ensuring efficient delivery of the capital investment plan, development of capital masterplans, compliance with preferred supplier lists and engineering standards, and robust governance of capital projects. This includes strategic leadership, risk management, fostering a safety-conscious culture, and close collaboration with factories for seamless execution of capital plans. The role is pivotal in aligning project success criteria with industrial execution, ensuring solutions meet or exceed agreed requirements.

Your responsibilities

Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute the engineering department’s strategic capital plan aligned with company goals.
- Provide visionary leadership to the site engineering team, fostering a high-performance and collaborative culture.
- Drive engineering excellence through best practices, standards, and continuous improvement.
Capital Planning & Execution
- Build and manage the capital plan in collaboration with site directors and stakeholders.
- Ensure accurate portfolio execution planning, financial forecasting, and timely reporting.
- Establish and maintain effective capital project management systems from idea generation to post-investment review.
- Conduct thorough project reviews to minimize execution risks and implement risk reduction strategies.
Compliance & Standards
- Lead implementation and normalization of global engineering standards, technologies, and methodologies.
- Ensure readiness of engineering documentation for regulatory audits.
- Maintain adherence to quality management systems and relevant engineering regulations.
Project Delivery
- Oversee procurement of engineering items and capital equipment.
- Ensure successful FAT, SAT, commissioning, and qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ) of facilities and equipment.
- Drive vertical start-up of new assets and monitor KPIs related to capital projects.
Governance & Reporting
- Ensure capital project governance and compliance with financial requirements.
- Facilitate reporting for regional updates, Capital Committee, and other requirements.
- Attend project and factory steering committees.
People Development
- Mentor and develop site engineering teams to build a strong talent pipeline.
- Provide training on Capital Project Policy and Capex Playbook.
- Foster a culture of safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate with Regional Supply Directors, Site Directors, Global Quality, Health & Safety, Technology Engineering, and Supply Excellence teams.
- Align priorities, resources, and timelines with broader supply chain initiatives.

The experience we're looking for

. Qualifications
Essential:
• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in engineering out of which 5 years leadership role in Engineering within the CPG industry or Pharmaceutical.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing engineering capital investment programs.
• Demonstrated experience in delveiry of Vertical startup.
• Strong knowledge of relevant regulations and industry best practices.
• Excellent presentation, leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Willingness to travel as required.
• English language fluency
Desirable:
• 3+ years of experience in engineering leadership role in CPG.
• Proven experience working in a multinational environment and managing cross-cultural teams with experience working in different geographies
• Master’s degree in an Engineering discipline or related field.

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Planning, Logistics 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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