Site Reliability Manager

Reckitt Benckiser LLC; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and hygiene company in Hull is seeking a Site Reliability Manager to define and lead their reliability strategy across manufacturing operations. The role involves enhancing safety, quality, and production performance, while also deploying reliability engineering practices. Candidates should have 10+ years in FMCG manufacturing, strong leadership qualities, and a degree in Engineering. This position offers a competitive salary and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Share options

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• 10+ years in FMCG or Self Care manufacturing, ideally OTC Pharmaceutical.
• Proven leadership in reliability or maintenance roles.
• Strong knowledge of reliability engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion the site reliability strategy.
• Lead deployment of RPS tools.
• Drive proactive and predictive maintenance strategies.

Skills

Supply Chain Management

Collaboration

Data analytics

Manufacturing excellence

Education

Degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

TPM

CMMS

Job description

Site Reliability Manager

City: Kingston upon Hull

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

Our Site Reliability Manager will be a member of the Hull Senior Leadership Team, playing a crucial role in driving reliability excellence across our manufacturing operations. They will support the Engineering Manager in providing reliability insights into capital planning and delivery, and willenhance site safety, product quality, and production performance through provision of strategic reliability initiatives.

The Reliability Manager leads the deployment of our Reckitt Production System (RPS) tools, embedding Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Autonomous Maintenance (AM), and advanced reliability engineering practices to sustain and improve asset performance.

Application End Date - Monday 8th December 2025 at 3.00 pm

Location - Hull, HU8 7DS

Your responsibilities

• Define and champion the site reliability strategy
• Lead deployment of RPS tools
• Provide reliability input for CAPEX planning and execution, ensuring alignment with long‑term asset reliability and performance
• Ensure reliability efforts are prioritized to support production targets and quality standards
• Drive proactive and predictive maintenance strategies
• Optimize CMMS for planning, tracking, and performance analysis
• Monitor and improve MTBF, MTTR, and equipment uptime
• Lead RCA and FMEA processes to eliminate chronic losses and improve system resilience
• Lead a reliability‑focused team d riving a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Improve OEE across all manufacturing areas
• Benchmark reliability performance internally and externally
• Leverage digital tools to enhance predictive maintenance
• Support CI initiatives including Centre Lining, Changeover Reduction, and Problem Solving
• Ensure proactive compliance with cGMP, HSE, ISO, and Atex standards
• Site statutory legal responsibilities

The experience we're looking for

• Degree in Engineering or related field
• 10+ years in FMCG or Self Care manufacturing, ideally OTC Pharmaceutical
• Proven leadership in reliability or maintenance roles
• Strong knowledge of TPM, AM, CMMS, and reliability engineering tools
• Familiarity with ISO9001, ISO14001, and cGMP
• Creating Maintenance strategies for the site for the next 1 to 3 years
• Experience of changing a culture in a complex environment
• HSE qualification would be advantageous

Personal Attributes

• Strategic thinker with hands‑on problem‑solving skills
• Strong communicator and influencer across all levels
• Resilient, tenacious, and results‑driven
• Passionate about continuous improvement and innovation

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Relationship management, Business accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced analytics, Data analytics, Manufacturing excellence.

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.