Maintenance Engineer

PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH; Coventry; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global snacks company is seeking a skilled engineer to provide technical support for maintenance and operations at their Coventry facility. This role includes ensuring the completion of planned maintenance and providing reactive support to technicians. The ideal candidate will have an ONC/HNC qualification and strong problem-solving skills, contributing to a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Quarterly bonus incentive

Discounted gym membership

Company pension

Qualifications

• Time served engineer with relevant qualifications.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving capabilities.
• At least level 1 (Electrical) Qualified, level 2/3 desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all planned maintenance is completed.
• Provide reactive support to Shift Technicians.
• Support completion of preventative and RCA actions.

Skills

Influencing skills

Communication skills

Decision making skills

Problem-solving skills

Coaching & mentoring skills

Education

ONC/HNC in relevant mechanical discipline

Tools

EAM SAP

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Overview

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, 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.

Join the world of PepsiCo Supply Chain. Our Coventry factory is one of our biggest snacks manufacturing sites in the UK, producing a number of well-known brands including Doritos, SunBites, Squares, French Fries, Wotsits and Monster Munch. It is a multi-technology plant with significant automation and is home to around 650 of our team. Our Coventry site 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 Coventry.

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:

To provide a high level of technical support to Engineering and Operations, ensuring specific planned maintenance requirements are met, and reactive maintenance activities are supported, providing technical feedback for all engineering related activities.

Key Purpose: To provide a high level of technical support to Engineering and Operations, ensuring specific planned maintenance requirements are met, and reactive maintenance activities are supported, providing technical feedback for all engineering related activities.

• Reports to: Maintenance Manager
• Shift: 12 hour Days Based shift pattern
• Other: Company pension and flexible benefits

Responsibilities

Production Support

• Work with Maintenance Planners, Line Engineering Lead and Manufacturing Technicians to ensure all planned maintenance is completed.
• Provide additional reactive support to Shift Technicians/Operations teams, when required.
• Create link with CSS, EDH, Reliability Engineer & Condition Monitoring Specialist to support completion of preventative and RCA actions.
• Support Specialist teams delivering action completion and continuous improvement support.
• Provide support to ensure maintenance plans and stores holdings are correct.

Engineering Best Practice

• Lead and support improvements through CI initiatives and preventative actions (to include health & safety and food safety actions).
• Drive and own root cause analysis completion.
• Creation of Visual Management for Planned Maintenance tasks.
• Ambassador for engineering standards and best practice across site.
• Effective capture of all planned/reactive maintenance activities in CMMS.

Qualifications

The Person

• Good influencing, communication and decision making skills.
• Motivated self starter with good prioritisation & planning skills.
• Effective team member.
• Display coaching & mentoring skills for Shift peers, Apprentices, Manufacturing Technicians and Front Line Employees.

Technical

• Time served engineer, ONC/HNC (or equivalent) qualified in relevant mechanical discipline.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills.
• Computer literate & software familiarity (word, excel).
• EAM SAP knowledge.
• Demonstrate problems solving capabilities.
• At least level 1 (Electrical) Qualified, level 2/3 desirable.
• Provision of specialist skills to include WAH, Confined Space, Gas Safety, essential training to be given.
• PLC Skills including fault finding, maintenance & programming desirable.
• Fabrication skills desirable.