Overview
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.
Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.
This role will operate on a day’s based contract working Monday – Friday, leading shift teams, and driving performance improvement.
The role of the Line Engineering Lead is to implement and/or to maintain and continuously improve the maintenance planning and scheduling (MPS) and breakdown elimination (BDE) daily management system (DMS) for their area, to coach line teams to improve technical ability, and to provide a continuity link to other Progressive Maintenance (PM) systems.
Responsibilities
* Ensuring the lines are not constrained due to the lack of technical capability or knowledge.
* Ensuring all maintenance tasks are planned, organized, and executed with the least effort at the best cost.
* Transferring knowledge to the line teams, and to ensure that the proper level of skills and qualification successfully deploy the loss elimination skills needed for the line to deliver the line and team goals.
* Providing coaching, teaching, and assessment of the Progressive Maintenance (PM) and the Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Steps implementation.
* Planning and scheduling maintenance work. Reviewing and prioritizing SAP work orders and notifications within 24 hours of generation.
* Ensuring all equipment design change proposals (corrective maintenance) and adding/deleting/modifying work follow-up change management (CM) procedures.
* Developing improvement plans. Identifying through the tracking of maintenance indicators and in-process measures.
* Identifying losses and improvement themes to eliminate losses.
* Leading the continuous improvement (CI) process.
* Reducing number of breakdowns due to improper maintenance overhaul/restoration procedures.
* Improving downtime due to scheduled maintenance being optimized, reduced, and at a target to deliver line goals in support of the compelling business need.
* Updating standards and procedures; maintenance costs (parts and labor) reduced and in line with budget.
* Equipment performance is controlled and predictable due to a percent increase of planned maintenance work.
Qualifications
* Ideally you will have experience from a FMCG or similar production/manufacturing environment.
* Ability to influence technicians, line operation leads, and process engineers, as required.
* Ability to teach, coach, and develop others.
* Have effective communication skills.
* Have a passion for the work, and the drive and ability to help others see the losses.
* Be personally committed to the self-development required of the role.
* Have integrated work system (IWS) and operational experience and skills, or the ability to quickly build the skills of at least the phase in which the plant or facility is currently working.
* Have had a line assignment in manufacturing, and be capable of operating the equipment and of owning an area or piece of equipment, as necessary.
* Possess a flexible mindset, e.g., a willingness to flow with the work, and to cover training and breaks, as required, to deliver the line key performance indicators (KPIs).
* Having a work process improvement (WPI) Level 4 capability is highly desirable.
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 or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.
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