Engineering Project Manager

City: Johannesburg

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 project 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 stratedgic 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 and industrial execution, ensuring solutions meet or exceed requirements.

Your responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute the engineering departments's strategic capital plan aligned with the company goals.

• Provide leadership support to the site engineering team, fostering high performance and a collaborative culture.

• Drive engineering excellence through best practices, standards and continous improvement.

Capital Planning and 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 and Standards

• Lead implementation and normalisation of global engineering standards, technologies and methadologies.

• Ensure readiness of engineering documentation for regulatory audits.

• Maintain adherence to quality mangement systems and relevant engineering regulations.

Project Delivery

• Oversee procurement of engineering 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 KPI's related to capital projects

Governance and Reporting

• Ensure capital project governance and compliance with financial requirements.

• Facilitate reporting for regional updates, Capital Commitee 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 continous improvement

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with various stakeholders and align priorities, resources and timelines with the broader suplly chain initiatives.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in and Engineering Discipline or related field

• Minimum 7 year's experience in engineering with 3+ years experience in engineering leadership within the Consumer Packaging / FMCG industry.

• Proven track record of successfully implementing engineering capital investment programs

• Demonstrarated experience in delivery of Vertical startup

• Strong knowledge of relevant regulations and industry best practices

• Experience working in a multinational environment would be advantageous

• FMCG operational management experience would be advantageous

The skills for success

Engineering Project Management, FMCG Manufacturing Operations, Capital Projects Management, End-to-End Project Delivery, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Budgeting and Cost Control, Risk Management, Process Improvement, Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma Methodologies, Production Optimization, Engineering Operations, Change Management, Resource Planning, Strategic Planning, Design Engineering

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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