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Project Engineer

Reckitt

Reckitt

Derby, CT, USA
Posted on Jun 30, 2025

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 Project Engineer is responsible for managing the planning and implementation of capital and revenue projects, ensuring these are delivered on time, on budget and to specification whilst meeting all regulatory requirements
The projects will cover factory equipment including packaging, processing and site services.

Your responsibilities

- Ensuring the projects meet all regulatory requirements and a PFMEA is completed as part of the scope document
- Project success criteria and business benefits are delivered on time, to spec and on budget
- Project scope and success criteria are clearly defined and understood by all
- Live project plans are available and managed effectively
- Project reporting, including KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
- Appropriate contingencies have been considered and planned
- Project financial management. Ensuring projects are cost effective and identify cost reduction and value-adding - opportunities, thus delivering value for money projects
- Ensure good communication channels and teamwork is in place and effective
- Manage internal and external resource to ensure project delivery
- Lead engineering and production teams during equipment installation and start-up
- Handover of project deliverables to all customers (Production, maintenance, SHE, Quality)
- Completion of post capex appraisal and close out reports
- To undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.

The experience we're looking for

- Degree in Engineering or equivalent
- Significant Project Engineer or engineering experience
- Proven FMCG operation experience, preferably in a household environment
- Project Management skills, with use of appropriate IT facilities\software
- Multi-disciplinary background with control and automation as a key competence with VSD and PLC understanding
- Autocad
- A good communicator/listener who can identify the business and stakeholder needs
- Diligent and detail conscientious
- Achievement focused and able to work in a direct and often pressurised environment.
- Skills in terms of innovation and problem solving

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.