Line Engineering Lead

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, 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.

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.

We are currently recruiting for a Line Engineering Lead to drive operational excellence at Lincoln Manufacturing site. This role will operate on a days-based contract working Monday – Friday, supporting the line/area team, working on equipment maintenance and reliability plans and driving performance improvement.

Responsibilities

The role of Line Engineering Lead will be supporting the Line Operations Managers and Shift Management Teams, leading the area maintenance agenda to ensure maximum efficiency and optimal operation of the equipment and to ensure smooth interface between the Shift Area Team and the site Maintenance Support Function. The roles will be responsible for reliability, maintenance, and improvement engineering for a specified area of the manufacturing operation.

Within Lincoln, there will be two Line Engineering Leads, each aligned to an area of responsibility. One area being the Pellet Plant, the other being Process, Primary and Multipack.

Main accountabilities:

• Role model high standards, complying with safety standards, all the time.
• Demonstrating high good manufacturing practice (GMP) / housekeeping standards.
• Making decisions in a way to sustain the foundation.
• Leading the team - managing and inspiring employee performance and career direction and driving employee retention and commitment.
• Building and leading a strong team to perform at peak, driving accountability and developing the team’s ability to deliver the results on a 7-day/24-hour basis.
• Ensure maintenance tasks are planned, organized and executed with the least effort and best cost.
• To transfer knowledge to the team and to ensure that proper level of skills and qualifications successfully deploy the loss elimination skills needed for the line to deliver the line and team goals.
• To provide coaching and teaching of the maintenance system processes to the ZO, MT and OTL team and ensure that systems and processes are followed correctly to ensure accurate records and sustainability of the maintenance system.
• Support the planning and scheduling of maintenance work; regularly review plans against the production requirements and activities to make best use of all available time to maximize maintenance efficiency.
• Ensure all equipment design change proposals are reviewed, relevant stakeholders are involved and the appropriate change management systems are followed.
• Own the RCA process for the area/line; support the Line Operations Manager through the robust application of RCA processes and ensure that all loss attributable to maintenance is fed back through the maintenance management system to ensure that changes are made to prevent future losses.
• Identify loss and improvement opportunities to eliminate future loss.
• Champion and lead the continuous improvement processes.

Qualifications

• Technical Engineering experience in a fast-paced environment.
• First line leadership experience and demonstrated leadership in the areas of engineering/operations, safety, and quality.
• Great communication, influencing, analytical skills and effective stakeholder management.
• Proven experience in continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with structured problem solving tools.
• Flexible, ‘can do,’ attitude to role and duties.
• Results driven and understands the link between action and results.
• Excellent communicator with individuals at all levels.
• Ability to influence upwards and across in the organisation.
• Good IT and presentation skills.
• Able to prioritise.

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 or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.