Controls Calibration Technician

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.

​Manufacturing​

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

A Calibration Technician role exists within our Engineering Controls Team for a skilled individual who will share site wide responsibility in the calibration of a diverse range of plant and equipment used in our manufacturing and packaging processes. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining plant to the appropriate standard to ensure that performance is safe, reliable and in accordance with the principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP). As part of the role there will be times when delivery of continuous improvement and technical led fault-finding affecting equipment and performance will be required to support the development of the Manufacturing Facility and contribute to the Supply function meeting its customer service, quality, and cost targets.

This is an engineering focused role, responsible for ensuring compliance within operations.

Your responsibilities

• Works predominately alone but also with others to provide a Calibration service site wide; responsible for planned calibration activities on manufacturing plant, tablet compressing machines, sterile controls, production lines, process areas or value streams.
• Ensure appropriate resources, assets and time are available for the application of a systematic approach to engineering which uses key performance indicators to routinely deliver targets and drive performance improvement.
• Responsible for the management of calibration, improvement, and related breakdown investigation activities.
• Monitor plant operational efficiency, reliability, and capability; identifying areas of under- performance or opportunity and implement plans to deliver improvement.
• Escalate calibration performance issues immediately via the site Quality systems to ensure that risk to product or consumer can be assessed in real time and contribute to onward discussion and evaluation.
• Participate effectively in weekly maintenance review and planning meetings.
• Ensure items of plant and equipment are maintained to the appropriate standards to ensure their performance is safe, reliable and in accordance with the principles of current GMP.
• Agree preventative maintenance plans, routine remedial action, machine design modifications, and operating and changeover procedures with Manufacturing Maintenance and Operations teams.
• Review, respond, interrogate, and modify MMS calibration schedules for and on behalf of the wider (& team. maintain detailed validation records of activities completed.

The experience we're looking for

• Minimum level 3 in a Engineering Discipline, preferably time served engineer with Electrical bias.
• Previous experience in a calibration role preferred and experience in a pharmaceutical or food based enviroment an advantage but not essential. 
• Knowledge and understanding of manufacturing and packing processes and cGMP requirements and their criticality to the product quality and experience in the trouble shooting and fixing of Instrumentation & Controls systems and manufacturing systems.
• Preferably should have practical experience in operation and maintenance of large multi- purpose facilities ideally within the Pharmaceutical industry.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of all manufacturing control systems and instrumentation, including PLCs & PC based SCADA packages.
• Knowledge and understanding of process control systems and their criticality to the product quality.
• Record accurately in real time clear, legible documentation that is free of mistakes, amendments that complies with GMP requirements.
• Write detailed reports of investigations, findings and recommendations that are audit ready.
• Knowledge and application of UK and worldwide regulatory standards.

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business Acumen, 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.