Global Technology Engineer

Salary: £57,000 - 97,000 per year

Requirements:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in engineering, including 2 years in a senior project or engineering leadership role within the consumer-packaged goods or pharmaceutical industry.
• Knowledge of liquid filling, capping, and blister packing equipment across different product types and technologies.
• Experience driving equipment standardisation at a single site or preferably across multiple sites.
• Background in CAPEX management, including project prioritisation, budgeting, and performance monitoring.
• Experience working in global or matrixed organisations and navigating cross-functional and cross-regional complexity.
• Strong technical background with expertise in filling technologies, especially in pharmaceutical or personal care industries.
• Knowledge of filling, capping, and upstream equipment for different viscosities, product types, and technologies.
• Knowledge of process utility requirements including HVAC, drainage, compressed air, power, and data networking.
• Knowledge of primary material delivery, including bulk material feeding and process connection.
• Knowledge of storage and cleaning requirements and technologies, including dry and wet cleaning and CIP.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Responsibilities:

• Focus on the development and deployment of filling, capping, and upstream equipment technology for common production equipment across the Reckitt group, across categories and geographies.
• Provide technical leadership, expertise, and support for equipment and systems related to filling, capping, and upstream equipment technology for liquids and creams packing.
• Own standardisation of equipment and vendor pool to leverage cost, lead time, efficiency, and best practices.
• Support compliant, reliable, and efficient operation of filling, capping, and upstream equipment systems in line with regulatory requirements and business objectives.
• Work in a cross-functional matrix organisation and foster a continuous improvement culture with close collaboration with factories.
• Engage cross-functional technical SMEs to set common standards for related production equipment across categories and geographies.
• Embed equipment standardisation within the CAPEX process to ensure equipment purchases follow process.
• Engage procurement to develop a vendor pool for self care and intimate wellness filling, capping, and upstream equipment, and assist in tender processes if required.
• Collaborate with vendors, system integrators, and IT/OT teams for new installations and upgrades.
• Develop URSs and standards for equipment to ensure performance improvement and deploy them across the business.
• Ensure standards are aligned to Reckitt and regulatory technical requirements.
• Provide technical advice through maintained up-to-date industry knowledge on filling, capping, and upstream equipment.
• Deliver and assist in delivery of key business CAPEX projects.
• Support and lead writing and reviewing URS, vendor selection, OEM progress monitoring, and FAT and SAT support for Site Capital Engineering teams.
• Review performance and KPIs for key OEMs.
• Monitor equipment performance, reliability, and compliance with Reckitt production system and Reliability Engineering, linking to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Capture inputs from RPS and Operations teams.
• Work with vendors to ensure standards follow the latest technological trends and implement innovative solutions where possible.

Technologies:

• Support
• Liquid
• Matrix
• Backbone
• Hardware

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We are Reckitt, home to the worlds best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world, and we are a global team united by that purpose. This Global Technology Engineer role is based in Hull (UK), Bangplee (THA), or Wilson (US) and sits within our supply organisation, where we support opportunities across planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics. We invest in inclusion, wellbeing, and reward through employee resource groups, parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program, life insurance, local market benefits, global share plans, and short-term incentives for eligible roles.

last updated 36 week of 2026