R&D Technician

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.
**Research & Development**:
In R&D, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.
We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.
The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.
**About the role**:
The R&D (Research and Development) Technician conducts the technical support and laboratory work to assist in the implementation of projects and initiatives considering all safety regulations and company standards.
**Your responsibilities**:
- Ensure that all activities conform to legislative, Health and Safety and Environmental requirements, including the adoption and tracking of laboratory best practices.
- Responsible for the maintenance of his/her laboratory equipment and working space, keeping inventory, and ordering items when required.
- Responsible for a proper operation, standardization & maintenance of lab equipment
- Maintain accurate and updated laboratory notebooks, while keep an accurate documentation of test results.
- Participate and support projects and teams on defined task.
- Run technical laboratory tests and activities according to project development, e.g. performance, stability, produce laboratory or pilot samples, etc.
- Suggest improvement on defined processes or management of the laboratory.
- Have a collaborative approve with and within the team(s).
**The experience we're looking for**:
- Be qualified at least with school diploma in relevant professional areas (i.e. Chemistry, Biology) or equivalent education level
- Technical experience in one or more related Research & Development area is advantageous
- Ability to understand requirements of laboratory activities to support product development
- Understanding physical and chemical risks of R&D area
- Ability to report activities accurately and in line with laboratory practice
- At least basic Microsoft Office skill level
- Basic knowledge of English is preferred, advanced Italian language skills.
**The skills for success**:
R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Collaborator, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Analytical, Formulation, Science, Chemistry.
**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.
We offer a temporary contract (1 year).
**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.