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Shift Technician

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

Are you a hands-on problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment? As a Shift Technician, you'll play a critical role in keeping our production lines operating at peak performance. Using your multi-skilled engineering expertise across mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, you'll be responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting and improving high speed manufacturing equipment to deliver world-class results in Safety, Quality, Customer Service and Cost.

Working as part of a high performing team, you'll lead fault finding activities, drive continuous improvement initiatives, implement preventative maintenance plans, and help maximise equipment reliability and efficiency. From analysing root causes and delivering permanent solutions to supporting new projects and process improvements, no two days are the same. If you're passionate about engineering excellence, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and want to make a real impact in a manufacturing environment, this is the perfect opportunity to develop your career with a business committed to innovation and operational excellence.

Your responsibilities

Provide multi-skilled (mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic) support to assigned to an area team including operating, servicing, maintenance, troubleshooting, improvements and repairs needed to deliver world class results in the key areas of Safety, Quality, Customer Service, Cost and Teamwork. You will;

Participates in developing and assisting in communicating short-range and medium-range maintenance plans for manufacturing lines.
Coordinate with Maintenance team leader to execute the Maintenance repair on assigned lines.
Monitor equipment uptime, work with operations to prioritise repairs and initiate improvement plans when necessary.
Support Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing activities on lines.
Demonstrate exceptional communication skills to internal and external customers.
Ensure compliance with established standards and procedures involving safety, quality, hygienic design, good manufacturing policies, lean manufacturing and other plant programs.
Determine root cause of equipment failure using Reckitt tools and implement improvement plans.
Job recording and detailed handovers.
Use the CMMS SAP system and resource to ensure that all agreed maintenance and improvement work is completed and ensure accurate and timely feedback of all tasks performed.
Ensure that procedures, as defined in the CMMS SAP system are correctly implemented in all areas.
Participate effectively in daily/weekly meetings.

The experience we're looking for

Minimum of time served apprenticeship to level NVQ 3 or equivalent.
5 years relevant work experience in a team-based manufacturing environment; on high speed packaging equipment preferred.
ONC/HNC in the mechanical and/or electrical disciplines preferred but not essential.
Strong mechanical maintenance, electrical maintenance, or reliability maintenance background is desired.

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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