Automation Engineer

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

Your responsibilities

•    Develop, design, and coordinate projects through interaction with others to assure desired outcomes are achieved in an effective, timely and cost-efficient manner.
•    Coordinate the development of project plans and specifications and the solicitation of competitive cost quotations on same. lead URS / Tender document preparation, running of tender process. 
•    Provide support in the development and integration of the factory control system (Process & Packaging) in accordance with Corporate Conformance Standards and/or Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP) guidelines.
•    Provide direction to designers/consultants to assure that complete Automation engineering plans will be in conformance with current engineering practices, standards, and codes. 
•    Contract Management - Manage contracts by identifying selected vendors, establish and development long-term working relation with them.
•    Provide support in the manage and control in batch recipe management system.
•    Provide support in the manage and control the manufacturing SAP system for operations control, traceability, and process automation in accordance with GMP/GAMP guidelines.
•    Ensure that maintenance process is compliant from a Regulatory standpoint. This includes MOM (GMP's), EHS (OHSA, EPA, etc.) 
•    Administration of third-party service providers.
•    Adhere to the Tuas Code of Conduct.
•    Raise change control, track, and close deliverables. 
•    Review engineering deliverables and initiate appropriate corrective actions. 
•    Lead, IQ, OQ and commissioning site works together with vendor. 
•    Manage and be responsible for all technical documentation. 
•    Prepare and Lead the Project coordination meetings with internal and external parties for Automation.
•    Prepare, schedule, coordinate and monitor the assigned engineering projects tasks.
•    Be responsible for timely risk management related to projects. 
•    Support and participate in employee training sessions and cross-functional teams. 
•    Provide supervision and mentoring to technical assistants, interns, clerical support, and others, as appropriate. 
•    Collaborate with Corporate and other plants in technology transfer projects involving new, specialized, or improved equipment/procedures.
•    Interact with other functional managers (Production, Finance, Manufacturing Services, Supply Chain, QA, and others) as necessary to assure efficient operations.

The experience we're looking for

• Engineering Degree (Automation/E & A/Instrumentation)  
• At least 3 years in Manufacturing Automation Environment (prefer in a food and pharma manufacturing plant)
• Knowledge in Allen Bradley RsLogix 5000, Siemens Simatic PLC programming.
• Knowledge in Wonderware System Platform and in batch development.
• Experience in working with service providers.
• Experience in Project Management knowledge specially in Brown field. 
• Experience in different Contracts in SG/management, Local Legislations, and financial control. 
• Technical knowledge of Process, Utilities systems and manufacturing food products. Understanding of regulatory compliance issues (e.g., EPA, GMP). 

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.