Factory Process Excellence Lead

PepsiCo; Coventry; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Critical illness cover

Discounted gym memberships

Enhanced parental leave

Electric car schemes

Job summary

PepsiCo UK is seeking a Process Lead to eliminate losses on equipment and drive standard problem-solving tools across the line. The role focuses on hands-on floor work, coaching line teams, and delivering improvements in process capability and control.

You will lead change management and validation, benchmark best practices, and apply reliability data to drive continuous loss elimination. The position offers competitive pay and a broad benefits package across sites in the UK.

Qualifications

• Spend 80% of the time on the factory floor.
• Become a technical expert for a designated process E2E.
• Coach and collaborate with the line teams, and with site and regional equipment or process owners.

Responsibilities

• Participate in line daily meetings and execute the daily plan, including reporting on results for the previous 24 hours.
• Centerline (CL) completion and compliance
• Changeover (CO) adherence to plan and critiques
• Identify, prioritize, and eliminate process losses
• Build the process capability and control
• Lead the change management (CM) and validation processes
• Lead and build the capability of process failure technical troubleshooting
• Lead the process of benchmarking and reapplication
• Own critical daily management systems, e.g., Centerline, Changeover, Change management
• Share and reapplying learnings across processes, modules, and plants
• Use reliability engineering (RE) and data analysis tools to drive centerline and loss elimination
• Develop himself through participating in corporate and external training
• Take part in planned stops and rapid changeovers (RCOs) flowing to the line, as needed

Skills

Factory floor experience

Technical process expert

Coaching teams

Job description

PepsiCo UK is seeking a Process Lead to eliminate losses on equipment and drive standard problem-solving tools across the line. The role focuses on hands-on floor work, coaching line teams, and delivering improvements in process capability and control.

You will lead change management and validation, benchmark best practices, and apply reliability data to drive continuous loss elimination. The position offers competitive pay and a broad benefits package across sites in the UK.