Line Engineering Lead

PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH; Coventry; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking Line Engineering Leads to enhance operational excellence at their Coventry site. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead shift teams, drive performance improvements, and implement maintenance planning systems. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in FMCG or manufacturing, along with the ability to coach and develop others. Join a company that values diversity and promotes career progression, providing a supportive environment for personal development and continuous improvement. If you're passionate about operational excellence and ready to make a significant impact, this role is for you.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Bonus

Critical Illness Cover

Flexible Working

Discounted Gym Membership

Health and Wellbeing Support

Generous Company Pension

Enhanced Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Experience in FMCG or similar production environment is essential.
• Ability to coach and develop line teams to improve technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure maintenance tasks are planned and executed efficiently.
• Coach line teams on maintenance practices and continuous improvement.

Skills

Influencing Skills

Coaching and Teaching

Effective Communication

Passion for Work

Flexible Mindset

Education

Experience in FMCG or Manufacturing

Work Process Improvement Level 4

Tools

SAP

Job description

Overview

Interested to join Britain’s most loved crisps?

Walkers Snack Foods are recruiting a number of exciting positions across the Midlands - Leicester (Home of Walkers) and Coventry (Home of Doritos).

We are currently recruiting for Line Engineering Leads to drive operational excellence on site.

This role will operate on a day’s based contract working Monday – Friday, leading shift teams, and driving performance improvement.

About Walkers Snack Foods and part of PepsiCo International umbrella. Our products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $67 billion in net revenue in 2019, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Walkers, Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana.

The role of the Line Engineering Lead is to implement and/or maintain and continuously improve the maintenance planning and scheduling (MPS) and breakdown elimination (BDE) daily management system (DMS) for their area, to coach line teams to improve technical ability, and to provide a continuity link to other Progressive Maintenance (PM) systems.

Responsibilities

• To ensure the lines are not constrained due to the lack of technical capability or knowledge.
• To ensure all maintenance tasks are planned, organized, and executed with the least effort at the best cost.
• To transfer knowledge to the line teams, and to ensure that the proper level of skills and qualification successfully deploy the loss elimination skills needed for the line to deliver the line and team goals.
• To provide coaching, teaching, and assessment of the Progressive Maintenance (PM) and the Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Steps implementation.
• Planning and scheduling maintenance work. Reviewing and prioritizing SAP work orders and notifications within 24 hours of generation.
• Ensuring all equipment design change proposals (corrective maintenance) and adding/deleting/modifying work follow-up change management (CM) procedures.
• Developing improvement plans. Identifying through the tracking of maintenance indicators and in-process measures.
• Identifying losses and improvement themes to eliminate losses.
• Champion and lead the continuous improvement (CI) process.
• Reduced number of breakdowns due to improper maintenance overhaul/restoration procedures.
• Improved downtime due to scheduled maintenance being optimized, reduced, and at a target to deliver line goals in support of the compelling business need.
• Updated standards and procedures; maintenance costs (parts and labor) reduced and in line with budget.
• Equipment performance is controlled and predictable due to a percent increase of planned maintenance work.

Qualifications

• Ideally you will have experience from a FMCG or similar production/manufacturing environment.
• Ability to influence technicians, line operation leads, and process engineers, as required.
• Ability to teach, coach, and develop others.
• Have effective communication skills.
• Have a passion for the work, and the drive and ability to help others see the losses.
• Be personally committed to the self-development required of the role.
• Have integrated work system (IWS) and operational experience and skills, or the ability to quickly build the skills of at least the phase in which the plant or facility is currently working.
• Have had a line assignment in manufacturing, and be capable of operating the equipment and of owning an area or piece of equipment, as necessary.
• Possess a flexible mindset, e.g., a willingness to flow with the work, and to cover training and breaks, as required, to deliver the line key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Having a work process improvement (WPI) Level 4 capability is highly desirable.

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, critical Illness cover, flexible working, 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 pride ourselves on our superb work force. 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 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.

A space to be y( )u

We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That’s why we’ve empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture.

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.

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