Shift Technician/Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Why PepsiCo?

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 $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

We offer a competitive salary, quarterly bonus incentive, critical illness cover, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension, and more. In 2024, we enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those with 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.

Join the world of PepsiCo Supply Chain at our famous Leicester manufacturing site, the world’s largest crisp factory producing millions of bags every day. It’s already a great plant, but our ambition is to make it even greater. Your leadership, innovation, and problem-solving skills will be utilized to the fullest in this fast-paced environment where we can go from idea to implementation in 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 in Leicester.

Position Summary
Reports to: Site Maintenance Manager
Direct reports: None
Working Hours: Continental shift pattern (4 on, 4 off) working 12-hour shifts, rotating between days and nights, including weekends and bank holidays. This averages to 42 hours per week.

Main Accountability

As a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (internally known as Shift Technician), your role is to provide a safe, high-quality, cost-effective maintenance service to site assets, including preventative, predictive, and breakdown maintenance, ensuring achievement of Factory Key Performance Indicators, targets, and budgets. Provide technical support to Operational teams, Technicians, and Operations Management, monitoring maintenance activities, routines, and procedures for accuracy, effectiveness, and completion. Drive line performance to meet targets by coordinating technical and operational activities.

Roles & Responsibilities
• Provide technical expertise for Electrical and Mechanical maintenance of plant equipment while carrying out reactive and PPM using electrical, control system, and mechanical engineering skill set.
• Key responsibility for reviewing production targets and priorities to balance the lines with minimal waste.
• Act as the effective link between Operations & Engineering.
• Support site contractor activity through issuing Permit to Works and reviewing risk assessments and method statements (RAMS).
• Responsible for coordination of contractors and contracts, including issuing of PTW.
• Coach and support the Manufacturing Technician (MT) group to develop their technical skills.
• Provide support to and involvement in site Project and Change Initiatives (CIs) as appropriate.
• Undertake tasks requiring data and strong diagnostics to identify and act upon underlying root cause issues.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Good electrical and mechanical maintenance skills.
• Experience within a production environment.
• NVQ L3 or equivalent time-served Engineering apprenticeship with proven hands-on experience.
• City & Guilds 2391 holder.
• Strong team player demonstrating a continuous improvement approach.
• Ability to manage and prioritize workloads to support business needs.
• Computer literate (Word, Excel, etc).

Preferred (but not essential) Qualifications:
• Experience within a FMCG or high-volume continuous production environment.
• Experience of leading and coaching a team.
• Working knowledge of PLC systems- Allen Bradley and/or Siemens an advantage.
• Working knowledge of CMMS and SCADA systems and the associated applications (further training will be provided by PepsiCo).

Salary & Benefits:

• £52,485.72 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

We pride ourselves on our superb workforce. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of the executive team having been promoted organically, we continually develop and encourage our employees to push themselves further and offer 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 as 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.