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Plant Hygienist

City: St. Peters

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About the role

The Plant Hygienist is a subject matter expert (SME), leveraging microbiological expertise, to ensure the St Peters (STP) factory is designed and operating by Hygienic Design principles. As the SME for the site, they lead the implementation and maintenance of hygienic design best practices for the site in coordination with the Global Hygienist and Reckitt Hygienic Design Standards. This position will act as the primary point of contact for Quality, Supply, Engineering and Technical to ensure hygienic design requirements are in compliance at the STP site.

Your responsibilities

+ Drives the STP site hygienic design risk assessment program, completing hygienic design assessment checklists and FMEA risk assessments as required ensuring microbiological risks are suitably controlled and any requirements for CAPEX investment are escalated.

+ Ensuring provision of microbiological expertise by working with Engineering teams on both new factory installations and assessment of existing equipment for the STP site.

+ Is an active member in the global and/or North American Hygienic Design Community of Excellence (COE) to foster best practice sharing and act as the forum for gap assessing new regulations or standards in hygienic design.

+ Stays current with updates to Hygienic Design practices through review of technical articles and/or attendance at key industry hygienic design workshops or meetings.

+ Liaises with the Global Hygienic Design COE, ensuring Global Hygienic Design best practices are implemented at the STP site.

+ Acts as the sanitation supervisor to support the Site cleaning & sanitation program in collaboration with facilities & technical team.

+ Supports the Global and/or North American Regional Hygienist for development of hygienic design and microbiological guidance documents.

+ Takes advantage opportunities to continue learning through continuing education opportunities (workshops, off-site meetings or forums, classes, etc.).

+ Is a STP Sanitization Team member and work closely with the Quality team on assessments of microbiological risks and support for batch release issues.

+ Support site risk assessments, evaluating issues, risks, equipment and operating requirements to ensure hygienic design is incorporated.

+ Develops and implements Hygienic Design Awareness training for Engineers, Operations, Quality and Technical teams.

+ Lead and support investigations using problem solving skills to enable effective root cause of quality issues and implementation of corrective and preventative measures. This may involve travel to other North American sites to support critical investigations.

+ Provides microbiological expertise for regulatory submissions and assessment of microbiological testing requirements in conjunction with STP Microbiology Lab Leader.

+ Support STP Site Microbiology laboratory as needed on out of trend or out of specification investigations.

+ Providing microbiological expertise for regulatory authority inspections.

+ Conduct internal and external quality audits as required.

The experience we're looking for

+ BS in Microbiology or related science.

+ Member of professional body preferred.

+ 5+ years of experience in Quality, Microbiological, GMP manufacturing or similar setting.

The skills for success

+ Proven experience in a similar role within the business or the pharmaceutical or an associated industry.

+ High level of microbiological knowledge and expertise for testing methods, laboratory management and factory facilities/equipment.

+ Ability to understand and resolve technical issues using root cause analysis techniques.

+ Knowledge of consumer goods, dietary supplement, food and/or pharmaceutical manufacturing Quality Management System (QMS).

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.

US salary ranges

USD 97,000-145,000

US pay transparency

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year.

Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick, and Company recognized holidays; a 401(K) plan; generous paid parental leave; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; product discounts; and much more!

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application **,** please contact **[email protected]** **.** Reckittis committed to the fullinclusion of all qualified individuals

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.

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