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Maintenance Lead

City: Nottingham

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

As a Maintenance Lead, you will play a key role in ensuring equipment reliability, performance, and compliance within a regulated OTC Health environment. You will lead all engineering and reliability activities within the cell, working to achieve zero breakdowns, eliminate recurring losses, and maintain equipment in a validated and compliant state. You’ll partner closely with Cell Leads, Process Leads, Quality, Validation, and Engineering teams to deliver improvements in CAPEX, safety, quality, and productivity. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, requiring strong problem-solving capability, reliability expertise, and the ability to coach and upskill team members.

Location: Nottingham, NG90 - On Site

Duration: Permanent, Full Time

Recruiter: brenna.borghisanilevy@reckitt.com

Hiring Manager: Simon Elrick

Your responsibilities

Breakdown Elimination & Reliability Improvement

Own the cell Breakdown Elimination (BDE) system and lead root‑cause analysis for major losses.
Drive sustainable countermeasures using structured problem‑solving tools.
Develop and maintain equipment reliability strategies to reduce unplanned downtime.
Analyse failure data and loss trees to prioritise improvement initiatives.
Ensure technical standards and critical spares strategies are maintained.

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

Lead maintenance planning and scheduling for the cell.
Build and maintain preventive maintenance plans aligned to equipment criticality.
Ensure effective weekly maintenance schedules and material readiness.
Track PM compliance and quality of execution.

Zero Loss Mindset

Champion the IWS Zero Loss journey within the cell.
Eliminate chronic equipment losses impacting SQDCS metrics.
Translate loss intelligence into improvement plans.

Engineering Support to Projects

Provide engineering input to CAPEX and productivity projects.
Support URS development, design reviews, FAT/SAT, and commissioning.
Ensure maintainability and reliability are built into new equipment.

Capability Building & Coaching

Train and coach team members in CIL, defect handling, and basic condition monitoring.
Build technical capability to enable operator ownership of equipment.

Standards, Compliance & Safety

Ensure compliance with GMP, EHS, and engineering standards.
Own engineering risk assessments and permit‑to‑work systems.

The experience we're looking for

Qualified engineer or equivalent relevant technical experience.
Strong background in maintenance planning, scheduling, and equipment reliability.
Experience in a regulated environment (GMP/GxP highly desirable).
Knowledge of TPM/IWS principles and maintenance excellence frameworks.
Proven root‑cause analysis capability and experience reducing equipment losses.
Strong coaching and leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams.
Ability to interpret data, analyse trends, and translate insights into action.
Experience supporting engineering projects, commissioning, or CAPEX delivery.
Strong commitment to safety, compliance, and process discipline

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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