Engineer Project Manager

PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH; Coventry; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000

Job description

Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products, making everyday favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. 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 over 200 countries and territories. The company generated $70 billion in net revenue in 2020. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and have recently been voted a Top Employer for the 11th 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.

Responsibilities

Note: It’s a location-free role.

Deliver the capital of the Capital plan by working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered successfully. Support in scoping concepts and developing solutions through to capex writing, submission, and management of projects. Accountable for project completion including contractor management, KPI sign off, and ‘customer’ acceptance.

• Full ownership of projects from inception, CAPEX submission through to completion.
• Ownership of financial control for responsible projects.
• Ensuring all legal checks/documents/systems are in place.
• Ensure post-project reviews are undertaken – build lessons learnt into project process.
• Ensure all site capital projects adhere to relevant PIUK standards & systems, adopting PepsiCo best practices for early equipment management.
• Project risk analysis and contingency planning.
• Financial/operational and performance delivery/handover.
• Lead and support project initiators in developing scoping documents.
• Lead tender groups/presentations making recommendations on suppliers.
• Manage site communications and engagement of front line for project delivery.

Key Measures:

• Adherence to project milestones and OTIF delivery; VSU (Vertical start-up) will be a key element.
• Capex spend management (both capital and expense) to agreed budget and timelines.
• Project compliance to required safety systems.
• Quality impact of any projects e.g., food-safe design, food safety incidents due to project implementation.

Qualifications

• Involved or responsible for small (<£100m) to medium (£1mm) scale capital projects.
• Technical/Engineering background preferable.
• Project Management and planning skills (knowledge of project management theory and processes) advantageous.
• Experience of H&S processes (permit writing/risk assessments/ATC/ATO).
• Knowledge/experience of the CAPEX process advantageous.
• Knowledge/understanding of CDM regulations an advantage.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision/instruction in a fast-moving, ever-changing environment.
• Ability to communicate at all levels including leading both technical and non-technical groups in project delivery.
• Computer literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, CAD - preferred).

Special features:

The role requires a wide amount of contact with various stakeholders including the HUB transformation manager, CTS, ops manager, various members of the engineering team, health and safety, quality, and central functions. It is expected the project manager will have excellent communication skills, manage a busy and varied agenda, and have the ability to take others with them.

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, critical illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus much more. In 2024 we have 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.

We pride ourselves on our superb workforce. 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 the 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.

A space to be you

We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That’s why we’ve empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), ask our team.

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.

To enable you to be at your best, we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need.