Overview
Please note, the below role is subject to consultation
Why PepsiCo?
PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. 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 nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that in the UK includes Walkers, Doritos, Pepsi MAX, Quaker and Pipers. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
Join the world of PepsiCo Supply Chain, our Skelmersdale manufacturing site is a key part of the Walkers portfolio producing a wide range of snacks such as Snack-a-Jacks and Monster Munch. It is a fast paced and ever changing environment, we can go from idea to implementation in a matter of days. You will be inspired by the drive of your team and feel a true sense of connection and comradery with your colleagues who are proud to work at Skelmersdale.
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 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. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.
Position Summary
Reports to: Senior Reliability Manager
Direct reports: None
Working Hours: Continental shift pattern (3/2) working hour shifts. This will rotate between days (05:45-18:00) and nights (17:45-6:00) and is an average of hours per week.
Salary & Benefits
• Annual Salary: £57,700 (including shift allowance).
• Quarterly Incentive: Earn between £1,400 to £3,200 annually, if KPI’s for the site team are met/smashed.
• Overtime: Overtime may be available.
• Relocation: Relocation package may be available if criteria is met.
• Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship may be available if criteria is met.
• Pension Scheme: We double your contribution! you put in 5%, we add 10%.
• Holidays: Enjoy 23 days off plus your birthday! Option to buy/sell up to 3 extra days.
• Provided PPE: Uniform and safety shoes provided, cleaned and maintained on-site.
• Staff discounts: Exclusive access to our discount shop.
• Virtual GP: This service has been extended to include partners and immediate family.
• Digital Physiotherapy: Customised programme designed by a physiotherapist - no referral required
• Cycle to work scheme: Save money and stay fit!
• Electric car scheme: Drive green with our electric car incentives.
• Subsidised Canteen: Delicious meals at a fraction of the cost.
• Long Service Rewards: Celebrate your milestones with us.
• Extended parental leave: Extra time for your growing family.
• Free on-site parking: Convenient and cost-free parking at work.
Main Accountability
As a technician you will be a technical expert, utilising you specialist engineering knowledge within your field. To be responsible for your respective area, as well as other areas whenever manning and/or skills are required for you to do so. You will ensure the smooth running and maintenance of all manufacturing assets, whilst delivering optimum plant reliability through preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance, root cause analysis and continuous improvement. Providing support to the autonomous maintenance team to help grow and develop our capability.
Responsibilities
The Technician responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
1. Demonstrate completion of all Quality checks pre and post maintenance activities, particular focus when carrying out all intrusive maintenance tasks.
2. Comply to all regulatory and mandatory standards and ensuring conformance to local PepsiCo standards.
3. Carry out maintenance activities in accordance with detailed safety precautions and procedures, influencing the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle for improvement of all procedures.
4. Provide training, coaching and mentorship to autonomous maintenance team members on equipment knowledge, basic Clean-Inspect-Lubricate activities and fault diagnostics.
5. Ownership of their personal skills needs assessment & develop an individual development plan with prioritisation versus requirements. Ensuring that critical skills are maintained.
6. Demonstrate the importance of a good level of 5S across plant and within Maintenance areas such as the workshop, inventory and technical library areas.
7. Develop lubrication maps, routes, execution, training autonomous maintenance team members, whilst supporting how we can simplify and rationalise our lubricants.
8. Complete running/stopped maintenance activities on time and in full, having a proactive mindset towards maintenance execution - maximising wrench time. Proactively feeding back to the maintenance planners and maintenance leadership teams to influence plans/frequencies/allocated time/parts.
9. To facilitate and coach root cause analysis sessions, being a proactive team member and providing technical expertise. providing input and engagement, supporting root cause and identification of potential Clean-Inspect-Lubricate, centre lining and planned maintenance improvements.
10. Ensuring compliance to the work order management and inventory standards and procedures. Accurate data quality including work order type, maintenance activity type, equipment selection and malfunction data.
11. Adherence to maintenance instructions when performing maintenance activity during scheduled intervention. Ensuring that there is a feedback loop to change and amend maintenance instructions as part of PDCA, continuous improvement or outputs from root cause analysis. Ability to develop maintenance instructions with version control and differentiating maintenance activity types.
12. Area ownership and technical responsibility, being present on your assigned area, being part of the line team.
13. Always being the lead technical representative, providing technical support to all autonomous maintenance team members.
14. Being responsible for all planned maintenance tasks assigned within their area/line.
15. Maximising wrench time and ensuring productivity of our resource by prioritisation of workload. Can identify opportunity maintenance and apply an if-down-do mindset.
Qualifications
16. NVQ Level 3 or equivalent time served Engineering apprenticeship with proven hands on experience
17. Recognised Electrical / Mechanical academic qualification
18. Advanced Electro-Mechanical aptitude
19. Electrical Testing & Inspecting - City & Guilds 2391 holder would be an advantage
20. IET 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS 7671) qualification is desirable
21. Understanding of SCADA control systems, computer systems, networking
22. Working knowledge of PLC systems - Allen Bradley and/or Siemens an advantage
23. Working knowledge of CMMS and SCADA systems and associated applications
24. Good manufacturing practices
25. Advanced Technical knowledge of Equipment and standards
26. Advanced maintenance techniques
27. Advanced Problem solving
28. Mechanical comprehension
29. Advanced coaching & facilitation
30. Communication & listening
31. Curiosity & Learning agility
32. Ability to influence
33. Prioritisation and Decision making
34. Numerical & verbal comprehension
35. Digital competence
Key Behaviours
36. Demonstrated ownership for safety, quality and operational performance
37. High level of personal responsibility for results
38. Ability to contribute as part of a team
39. Can do attitude and respect for people
40. Passion to learn, train, challenge and coach
41. Demonstrates the right commitment to applying processes
42. Role models PepsiCo values