Line Engineering Lead

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products, making everyday favorites 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 $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 center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.

The role of the Line Engineering Lead is to implement and/or maintain and continuously improve the maintenance planning and scheduling (MPS) and breakdown elimination (BDE) daily management system (DMS) for their area, coach line teams to improve technical ability, and provide a continuity link to other Progressive Maintenance (PM) systems.

• Ensure the lines are not constrained due to the lack of technical capability or knowledge.
• Ensure all maintenance tasks are planned, organized, and executed with the least effort at the best cost.
• Transfer knowledge to the line teams, ensuring that the proper level of skills and qualifications successfully deploy the loss elimination skills needed for the line to deliver the line and team goals.
• Provide coaching, teaching, and assessment of the Progressive Maintenance (PM) and the Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Steps implementation.
• Plan and schedule maintenance work, reviewing and prioritizing SAP work orders and notifications within 24 hours of generation.
• Ensure that the work order backlog is current and sorted for reporting, managing how best to meet the compelling business need (CBN).
• Track and report maintenance indicator results and in-process measures.
• Ensure all equipment design change proposals (corrective maintenance) and adding/deleting/modifying work follow-up change management (CM) procedures.
• Develop improvement plans by identifying through the tracking of maintenance indicators and in-process measures.
• Identify losses and improvement themes to eliminate losses.
• Own, develop, and track improvement theme action plans.
• Champion and lead the continuous improvement (CI) process.
• Reduce the number of breakdowns due to improper maintenance overhaul/restoration procedures.
• Improve downtime due to scheduled maintenance being optimized, reduced, and at a target to deliver line goals in support of the compelling business need.
• Update standards and procedures; maintenance costs (parts and labor) reduced and in line with budget.
• Control and predict equipment performance due to a percentage increase of planned maintenance work.

• Experience from a FMCG or similar production/manufacturing environment is ideal.
• Ability to influence technicians, line operation leads, and process engineers as required.
• Ability to teach, coach, and develop others.
• On-the-floor technical credibility with the people doing the work.
• Effective communication skills, including active listening and the ability to positively confront and be assertive when necessary.
• Passion for the work, with the drive and ability to help others see the losses.
• Commitment to self-development required for the role.
• 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.
• Line assignment experience in manufacturing, capable of operating the equipment and owning an area or piece of equipment as necessary.
• Flexible mindset, willing to flow with the work and cover training and breaks as required to deliver the line key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Willingness 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.