Assistant Engineering Manager
Reckitt
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Samut Sakhon, Thailand
Posted on Nov 10, 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 Assistant engineering project manager provides technical and onsite support/ lead on facility, utility, process and packing project implementation. These roles are in factory to contribute all engineering execution and managing the suppliers and/or contactors related to facilities, utilities, process and packing projects to meet with quality, safety and comply with Reckitt ‘s policy.
Your responsibilities
- Manages the portions of/ all of plant’s facility, utility process and packing capital expenditure plan and coordinates with all relate departments to ensure uninterrupted plant operations and smooth project integration.
- Manages external suppliers/3rd parties regarding projects execution and qualification to ensure the projects are delivered as quality and plan, minimizing impact to day-to-day operations and optimizing 3rd party’s contribution to the projects.
- Provide the operation and training of projects before handover the project to an accountability.
- Ensures the GMP compliance are executed within department, this is relevant to documentation system, working process and instruction, SOP, document validation.
- Management of multiple concurrent priorities, projects and issues.
- Ensure a balance of time is spent on strategy as well as firefighting or day to day tasks and never stop challenging the status quo where it is not acceptable.
- Ability to manage and lead in a matrix management organisation.
- To ensure that the Project team, and wider Supply team, embraces the Reckitt Benckiser culture and consistently demonstrate this through their application of the core values.
- Ensure engineering works planned to minimise impact on production operations.
- Maintain effective communication to all parties.
- Develop constructive but challenging relationships with suppliers and contractors
The experience we're looking for
- At least bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
- At least 3-5 years of project experience with FMCG or Pharmaceutical factory related to facility, utility, process and packing.
- Familiarity with qualification documents is preferable.
- Proactive in achieving targets and committing jobs.
- High flexibility to work as a timing constrain.
- Good command in English.
- MS office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) at intermediate level
- Drawing skills (AutoCAD) is preferable.
The skills for success
- Will be achievement focussed and able to work in a direct and often pressurised environment.
- Skills in terms of innovation and problem solving.
- Tenacity and tough-mindedness.
- Commitment to complete challenges that are started.
- Must have good leadership qualities, be able to motivate others and demonstrate strong team working.
- Ability to communicate and influence at all levels.
- Methodical and detailed worker.
- Ability to manage multiple activities.
- Self starter, able to work on own initiative.
- Flexible to respond to changing priorities.
- Must be able to work on own initiative; self-motivated.
- Must be a decision maker.
- Flexible to travel, if required
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.