Line Engineering Lead

Job description

Overview

Interested to join Britain’s most loved crisps?

 

Walkers Snack Foods are recruiting a number of exciting positions across the Midlands - Leicester (Home of Walkers) and Coventry (Home of Doritos).

 

We are currently recruiting for Line Engineering Leads to drive operational excellence on site.

 

This role will operate on a day’s based contract working Monday – Friday, leading shift teams, and driving performance improvement. For Coventry, this will be days based including weekends (4 days on, 4 days off) until we move to the full days pattern in early 2024.

 

About Walkers Snack Foods and part of PepsiCo International umbrella.

Our products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $67 billion in net revenue in 2019, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Walkers, Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 23 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Convenient Foods and Beverages by Winning with Purpose. “Winning with Purpose” reflects our ambition to win sustainably in the marketplace and embed purpose into all aspects of the business.  For more information, visit  www.pepsico.com .

Responsibilities

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.

·  To ensure the lines are not constrained due to the lack of technical capability or knowledge.
·  To ensure all maintenance tasks are planned, organized, and executed with the least effort at the best cost.
·  To transfer 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.
·  To provide 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 that the work order backlog is current and sorted for reporting, and managing how best to meet the compelling business need (CBN).
·  Tracking and reporting maintenance indicator results and in-process measures.
·  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.
·  Owning, developing, and tracking improvement theme action plans.
·  Champion and lead the continuous improvement (CI) process.

Accountability:

·  Reduced number of breakdowns due to improper maintenance overhaul / restoration procedures.
·  Improved downtime due to scheduled maintenance being optimized, reduced, and at a target to deliver line goals in support of the compelling business need.
·  Updated 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 with a maintenance background.
·  Ability to lead technicians, line operation leads, and process engineers, as required.
·  Electro/Mechnical background.
·  Ability to teach, coach, and develop others.
·  Have on-the-floor technical credibility with the people doing the work.
·  Have effective communication skills, including the ability to be an active listener, and also the ability to both positively confront and be assertive, when necessary.
·  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).
·  Be willing to actively participate in planned stops and changeovers (COs), flowing to the work as required.
·  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, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.