Utility & Facility Manager

About the role

We are looking for a Utility & Facility Manager to take ownership of our site's essential utility and facility operations, ensuring the highest standards of reliability, safety, compliance, and efficiency. This is an exciting opportunity to lead strategic improvement initiatives, drive sustainability performance, and make a significant impact on manufacturing operations.

As the Utility & Facility Manager, you will lead a team responsible for the safe and reliable operation of critical utility systems and facility infrastructure. You will play a key role in optimizing energy and water consumption, delivering capital projects, managing budgets, and ensuring compliance with quality, environmental, and safety standards.

This role requires a hands-on leader who can combine technical expertise with strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills to drive operational excellence across the entire site.

Your responsibilities

• Leading utility and facility operations to ensure maximum system reliability and efficiency.
• Developing and executing improvement initiatives that enhance productivity and reduce operational costs.
• Managing energy, water, and sustainability programs to support environmental objectives.
• Driving engineering and infrastructure projects from concept through implementation.
• Managing departmental budgets and ensuring effective cost control.
• Ensuring full compliance with safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Building strong partnerships with contractors, suppliers, and external stakeholders.
• Promoting a proactive safety culture and continuous improvement mindset across the facility.
• Maintaining FM Global compliance and supporting risk reduction initiatives.

The experience we're looking for

• Minimum 5 years of experience in manufacturing environments, ideally FMCG.
• Proven experience managing utility systems and facility operations.
• Strong track record in engineering project management and capital project delivery.
• Experience leading teams, contractors, and cross-functional stakeholders.

The skills for success

• Strong ownership and accountability with a proactive, hands-on approach.
• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to inspire, develop, and engage teams.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking capabilities.
• Effective decision-making skills, particularly in fast-paced operational environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across all levels of the organization.
• Strong project management and prioritization abilities.

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.