Head of Maintenance

About the role

• The Head of Maintenance will lead the site’s maintenance and asset care strategy to ensure safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective performance of manufacturing, utilities, facilities, and infrastructure assets. Drive Reckitt Production System, Asset Care excellence, equipment reliability, continuous improvement, and long-term asset performance while fulfilling GMR 2.1/2.7 statutory responsibilities.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the site Asset Care strategy and long-term maintenance and reliability roadmap, aligned with RPS and business priorities.
• Own RPS Asset Care standards, driving preventive and predictive maintenance, breakdown elimination, operator asset care and continuous reliability improvement.
• Lead maintenance across manufacturing, utilities and facilities to deliver uptime, OEE, reliability and cost targets.
• Ensure safe, efficient and compliant operation of site utilities, engineering systems and infrastructure.
• Fulfil GMR 2.1/2.7 responsibilities and maintain compliance with applicable safety, quality, environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Drive root cause analysis, CAPA, loss elimination and data-led improvements to equipment performance.
• Lead and develop Maintenance, Utilities, Reliability and Engineering Support teams, building strong technical capability and succession pipelines.
• Manage maintenance budgets, contractors and spare parts while identifying savings and optimizing asset lifecycle costs.
• Partner cross-functionally and support capital projects from concept through commissioning and handover.
• Represent Engineering as a key member of the Site Leadership Team. 

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering.
• GCC Factories (Mandatory).
• Minimum 8-10 years FMCG manufacturing engineering experience.
• Minimum 5 years' leadership experience managing maintenance and engineering functions.
• Proven experience leading maintenance transformation and asset care systems.
• Strong knowledge of RPS, TPM, World Class Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing or equivalent systems.
• Experience managing utilities, facilities, and manufacturing assets.
• Demonstrated leadership in safety, quality, reliability, and cost improvement.