Why PepsiCo?

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few!

We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

We offer a competitive salary, quarterly bonus incentive, critical Illness cover, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We’re also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.

Key Purpose:

To provide a high level of technical support to site, ensuring reactive requirements are met, planned maintenance activities are supported and providing technical feedback in utilities related activities.

• Reports to: Utilities Team Leader

• Shift: Days Based 7-3pm (Mon – Fri)

• Salary: £38,272.00 per annum

Responsibilities

Site Utility Support

• Provide reactive, proactive and preventative engineering support to the site manufacturing operation, delivering optimum plant availability and reliability through the execution of the asset maintenance strategy and improvement programme for all utility related equipment.

• Ensure that all service contracts and contractors are working to SLA requirements and are delivering a value added benefit to the overall utility and maintenance function.

• Support contractor activity, electrical & mechanical maintenance activities on shift, using permit to work system (out of hours support).

• Developing personal and team capability to support the current and future needs of the business.

Engineering Best Practice

• Lead and support improvements through CI initiatives and preventative actions (to include health & safety and food safety actions).

• Support planned & predictive maintenance utility requirements.

• Drive and own root cause analysis completion.

• Ambassador for engineering standards and best practice across site.

• Effective capture of all reactive/planned maintenance activities in CMMS (SAP).

• Play effective role in site maintenance audit and subsequent improvement plans.

Requirements

People

Good influencing, communication and decision making skills.
Motivated self starter with good prioritisation & planning skills.
Effective team member.
Display coaching & mentoring skills for peers, Apprentices, Manufacturing Technicians and Front Line Employees.

Technical

Time served engineer, ONC/HNC qualified in relevant electrical discipline.
18th edition regulations and C&G2391 preferred but not essential.
Demonstrate strong problem solving skills.
Computer literate & software familiarity (word, excel).
Demonstrate relevant CMMS (SAP) knowledge.
Demonstrate problems solving capabilities.

We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.

To enable you to be at your best we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need.