Shift Technician/Multi Skilled Engineer

Why PepsiCo?

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favorites 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.

Our Skelmersdale manufacturing site is a key part of the Walkers portfolio producing a wide range of snacks such as Snack-a-Jacks and Monster Munch. It is a 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 camaraderie with your colleagues who are proud to work at Skelmersdale.

We offer a competitive salary, quarterly bonus incentive, critical illness cover, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so 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.

Position Summary

Working Hours: Continental shift pattern (3/2) working 12-hour shifts. This will rotate between days (06:00-18:00) and nights (18:00-6:00) averaging 42 hours per week.

Salary & Benefits:

• £55,371.40 per annum (inclusive of shift allowance)
• Quarterly Bonus Incentive
• Competitive Pension Scheme
• 23 days holiday (with the option to buy/sell holiday)
• PPE provided by the business
• Staff discount shop
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised Canteen
• Long Service Rewards

Main Accountability

As a Multi Skilled Engineer (internally known as Shift Technician) you will provide Engineering Technical support to the site manufacturing operation, delivering optimum plant reliability and performance through an effective asset maintenance and CI programme whilst working on a rotating continental shift pattern.

• Carrying out planned and preventative maintenance using Electrical, Control System and Mechanical Engineering skill set.
• Support site Reliability agenda: Identification of failure modes and trends, complete root cause analysis (RCA) processes and drive / deliver the agreed actions.
• Proactive fault prevention and continuous improvement activity to deliver key maintenance KPI’s.
• Support and coaching of the Manufacturing Technician (MT) groups to develop their technical skills.
• Provide support to and involvement in site Project and Change Initiatives (CI’s) as appropriate.
• Contractor Control: Support site contractor activity through issuing Permit to Works and review of risk assessments and method statements (RAMS).

• Indentured time served apprentice with an Electrical bias holding (as a minimum) 18th edition
• City & Guilds 2391 holder
• Understanding of SCADA control systems, computer systems, networking
• PLC experience required. Allen Bradley and/or Siemens an advantage
• Ideally a multi-disciplined engineer with FMCG experience
• Lean experience and control skills are ideal but not essential
• Experience of leading and coaching a team
• Excellent influencing, presentation, communication and decision making skills
• Strong team player who adopts a continuous improvement approach
• Computer literate

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.

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.