Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Job description

Overview

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 $86 billion in net revenue in 2022. 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.

Join the world of PepsiCo Supply Chain, our Cupar manufacturing site in Scotland is our only oats site and has been milling oats for over 100 years. It joined the PepsiCo family in 2001 and produces market-leading products such as Quaker Oats, Quaker OatSo Simple, Scott’s Porage Oats and Scott’s So Easy. Your leadership, innovation and problem solving skills will be utilised to the fullest; where in this 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 in Cupar.

Position Summary:

Reports to: Engineering Team Leader
Direct reports: None
Working Hours:   The working pattern for the role is 5/2 continental shift pattern, 12 hour shifts.
Week 1: Mon, Tues, Fri, Sat & Sun
Week 2: Wed & Thurs
This will rotate between day shifts (06:30-18:30) and night shifts (18:30-06:30) every two weeks.
Salary: £47,040 per annum (including shift allowance)

 

Main Accountability:

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

 

Responsibilities

Production Support:

• Effective cross shift communication to ensure prompt resolution of reactive issues - Concise handover between Shift Technicians.
• Provide hands on fault finding/rectification when required.
• Effective link between Operations & Engineering.
• Work with Maintenance Planners and Asset Care Teams to ensure all planned maintenance is completed Support FLM’s by providing engineering expertise to sustain shift performance.
• Support contractor activity & electrical/mechanical maintenance activities on shift, using permit to work system (low risk activities & out of hours support).

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

Qualifications

What we are looking for:

Technical :

• Time served engineer, ONC/HNC qualified in relevant electrical or mechanical discipline.
• Demonstrate strong problem solving skills.
• Computer literate & software familiarity (word, excel).
• Demonstrate relevant CMMS knowledge.
• Demonstrate problems solving capabilities.

People :

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

Desirable :

• 18th Edition qualified.
• Good knowledge of PLC controls systems to include programming, maintenance and fault finding. (Ideally experience with Allen Bradley PLC’s).
• SAP EAM experience.

 

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.