Overview
At PepsiCo UK, we’re proud to make some of the nation’s favourite snacks and drinks—like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. With sites across the UK, including our Quaker mill in Cupar and Doritos factory in Coventry, we’re also home to one of the world’s largest crisp factories in Leicester. At the end of 2025 we will move our UK office to a vibrant new Reading town centre location, just minutes from Reading train station.
Why Join Us?
We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.
A Space to be You
We celebrate individuality and are committed to building an inclusive workplace. Our Employee Resource Groups help embed inclusion into our culture, ensuring everyone feels valued and heard.
Equal Opportunities
We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will provide any necessary adjustments to support you through the recruitment process.
About PepsiCo
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. 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.
The role of the multi skilled flexi op is to carry out responsibilities to ensure all areas from frying, flavouring, packing machines, palletising and case packing are to specification as laid out in company standards.
Responsibilities
1. Working as part of the team to keep the relevant zone (process/flavour/packaging/palletising) in control and at a green standard against all metrics (Safety, Quality, Costs and Production Plan Delivery)
2. Operating equipment to the required operating standards safely and cost effectively
3. Completing the required food safety and quality testing throughout the shift to ensure total compliance against standards
4. Taking ownership of the relevant area by keeping it clean, safe to operate and audit ready at all times
5. Taking ownership and action of tests and checks that fall outside of standards
6. Escalating issues around safety, quality, costs or production plan delivery issues to team leader or shift engineer
7. Completion of relevant paperwork to the right standards on time in full
8. Completion of changeovers and clean downs to expected standards on time in full
9. Pro – active approach to safety, quality, costs and production plan delivery by escalation of issues and ideas
Qualifications
10. Previous experience in the manufacturing environment is preferable
11. An acceptable level of English understanding to be able to comply with and understand all verbal and written communication
12. Numerically literate, being able to use calculator and understand percentages.
13. Being able to identify non-conformances in the working area.
14. Being able to articulate and communicate all performance issues and opportunities.
15. Good understanding of KPIs, and understanding how a factory works