Engineering Planner

PepsiCo; Leicester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global food and beverage company in Leicester is looking for an Engineering Planner to oversee maintenance planning for site-based teams. The role involves planning tasks for shutdowns, ensuring efficient operations, and collaborating closely with various teams. Ideal candidates should possess strong analytical skills, proficiency in SAP, and effective communication abilities. This position offers various benefits, including a competitive salary and flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Car allowance

Flexible working

Discounted gym memberships

Qualifications

• Highly numerate with analytical thinking skills.
• Ability to work in a changing environment and generate ideas.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan maintenance tasks associated with shutdowns.
• Deliver effective plans to improve reliability and reduce costs.
• Drive scheduling to achieve asset care targets.
• Review work orders and prioritize effectively.
• Ensure weekly scorecards are produced and maintained.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Effective communication skills

Negotiation skills

Microsoft Excel

SAP operation

Job description

Overview

At PepsiCo UK, we’re proud to make some of the nation’s favourite snacks and drinks—like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. With sites across the UK, including our Quaker mill in Cupar and Doritos factory in Coventry, we’re also home to one of the world’s largest crisp factories in Leicester. At the end of 2025 we will move our UK office to a vibrant new Reading town centre location, just minutes from Reading train station.

Why Join Us?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.

About PepsiCo

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi‑Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end‑to‑end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital 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, and follow on X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.

Job Overview

Engineering planner planning site based engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Planner plans all tasks associated with shutdowns by collaborating with Operations and Maintenance.
• Responsible for delivering an effective plan for each planned shutdown continuously improving reliability, AIB, reducing labour costs and driving efficiency.
• Driving effective scheduling to implement asset care, achieving greater than target KPI’s on monthly scorecard. Collaborating daily with Operations to allow targets to be maintained via QCDM meetings.
• Reviewing work order/requests and prioritising through effective collaboration with Maintenance Team and Operation Teams.
• Support Improvement Teams, scheduling Failure Analysis work orders as required from the Teams feedback.
• Ensure weekly scorecards are produced and fed back to teams, supplying labour utilisation information, maintaining SAP, using Data standards, preparing ad‑hoc reports, entering and modifying tasks and instructions as required.
• Maintaining SAP data including new equipment and associated asset care regimes.
• Take an active role in supporting the site on actions and taking ownership on agreed issues relating to internal audits such as PEMM, BRC and AIB.

Qualifications

• Highly numerate, with analytical thinking, ability to support the Maintenance Team, Operations and others with decisions and judgements.
• Ability to work in a changing environment generating ideas and solutions.
• Attention to detail and ability to prioritise workload.
• Highly motivated and a strong team player with good people skills, having effective written and verbal communication skills across a range of contacts, both within the organisation and beyond.
• Skills in influencing others with the ability to negotiate.
• Computer skills, Excel, Word and capability to operate SAP.
• Must demonstrate assertiveness and confidence to take an active part in meetings with fellow employees and external contractors at all levels.
• Knowledge of the system equipment.
• Daily contact with peers and other employees at all levels.
• Having a basic knowledge of system flow streams and how items of equipment can affect system efficiency and pallet quality.
• Having a personality to accommodate snap shot changes in production/equipment demands.