Validation Engineer

Manpower are currently seeking an interim Validation Engineer to work with our global FMCG client Reckitt, renowned for brands such as Dettol, Finish, Nurofen, and to become an integral part of their fast-paced FMCG environment.

The position is based in Hull. This a full-time temporary role to run for 6 months, requiring 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Compensation for this role is competitive.

Reckitt is the world’s leading consumer health and hygiene company. We have operations in over 60 countries, with headquarters in London, Dubai and Amsterdam, and sales in almost 200 countries. We employ c.40,000 people worldwide.

With a purpose of protecting, healing and nurturing in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world, Reckitt is in the top 8 of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Today we are the global Number 1 or Number 2 in the majority of our fast - growing categories, driven by an exceptional rate of innovation. Our health and hygiene home portfolios are led by 19 global Powerbrands, including Dettol, Nurofen, Strepsils, Gaviscon, Mucinex, Durex, Scholl, Clearasil, Lysol, Veet, Harpic, Bang, Mortein, Finish, Vanish, Calgon, and many, many more.

Reckitt people and its culture are at the heart of the company’s success. They have an intense drive for achievement and a desire to outperform wherever they focus, living and breathing the core values of Doing The Right Thing Always, Building Shared Success, Putting Consumers and People First, Seeking Out New Opportunities and Striving for Excellence.

We are fighting to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment a right, not a privilege.

As part of the Technical Team

• Ensure Validation activities are executed to support the Site Validation Master Plan.

• Drive continuous improvement and optimisation of Validation processes to deliver site objectives with regards to efficiency increases and waste stream reduction whilst remaining compliant to regulatory and quality guidelines

• Work cross -functionally to proactively ensure that Validation Impact is considered and sufficiently mitigated when making changes to existing processes

• Ensures a consistent approach is adopted for all Validation related activities by supporting as a Technical SME

As a Validation Engineer

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• To act as an SME and coordinate Validation activities across the site in line with the SVMP, providing clear evidence of status and progress to the Site Validation Manager

• Works closely with the Site Validation Manager, Engineering team and Technical team to have full working knowledge of the Capex Plan and Site Validation Master Plan

• To deliver Validation improvements in the areas of cost, efficiency, quality and customer service delivery

• To use SME knowledge to support the wider Reckitt Global Pharmaceutical Manufacturing facilities providing Validation/Troubleshooting support as required.

• Supports the Validation Manager during audit inspections with respect to equipment, cleaning and facilities validation and ensures the site is always audit ready.

Key Challenges

• Making efficient and best use of your daily resource to ensure assigned workload meet tight, often fixed deadlines.

• Ability to multi-task various validation execution activities and improvement activities whilst maintaining overall internal and external regulatory/quality compliance.

Professional Skills and Competencies

• Degree in Science/Engineering discipline

• In- depth knowledge and experience of Validation standards including Knowledge of UK, EU and FDA standards and legislation

• Minimum of 6 - 12 months Pharmaceuticals and FMCG industry experience

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence

• Broad understanding of cleaning validation, both CIP and COP, and understanding of critical validation parameters

• Broad understanding of equipment/process functionality and the relationship to processing properties and packaging properties

Personal Attributes

• Takes action to improve effectiveness of processes and procedures adopting a “right first time” mentality.

• Good communication, presentation and influencing skills, using a range of approaches tailored to the

audience \situation

• Ability to approach regulatory/quality obstacles with creative solutions.