Multi-Skilled Flexi Operative

PepsiCo; Grasby CP; On-site; GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational food and beverage company is seeking a general operator to ensure processes in frying, flavouring, packing, and palletising meet company standards. The successful candidate will have prior experience in manufacturing, a good understanding of KPIs, and be numerically literate. Salary is £28,766.58 annually plus a shift allowance of 23.5%. This role offers opportunity for active contributions to safety and quality improvements.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Quarterly bonus incentive

Discounted gym membership

Generous company pension

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing environment is preferable.
• Understanding of English for communication compliance.
• Ability to use a calculator and understand percentages.

Responsibilities

• Keep the relevant zone in control against metrics.
• Operate equipment to required standards safely.
• Ensure compliance with food safety and quality testing.
• Maintain area cleanliness and audit readiness.
• Take ownership of tests and checks outside standards.
• Escalate safety, quality, or production issues.
• Complete paperwork accurately and on time.
• Conduct changeovers and clean downs as required.
• Proactively escalate issues and suggestions.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

English understanding

Numerical literacy

Identification of non-conformances

Communication skills

Understanding of KPIs

Job description

Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world’s most loved food and drink products. Making every day 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 $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK 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. 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 are also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy. 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 PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end‑to‑end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center 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.

Job Overview

The role of the general op is to carry out responsibilities to ensure all areas from frying, flavouring, packing machines, palletising and case packing are to specification as laid out in company standards.

Salary

£28,766.58 per annum + 23.5% shift allowance

Responsibilities

• Working as part of the team to keep the relevant zone (process/flavour/packaging/palletising) in control and at a green standard against all metrics (Safety, Quality, Costs and Production Plan Delivery)
• Operating equipment to the required operating standards safely and cost effectively
• Completing the required food safety and quality testing throughout the shift to ensure total compliance against standards
• Taking ownership of the relevant area by keeping it clean, safe to operate and audit ready at all times
• Taking ownership and action of tests and checks that fall outside of standards
• Escalating issues around safety, quality, costs or production plan delivery issues to team leader or shift engineer
• Completion of relevant paperwork to the right standards on time in full
• Completion of changeovers and clean downs to expected standards on time in full
• Pro‑active approach to safety, quality, costs and production plan delivery by escalation of issues and ideas

Qualifications

• Previous experience in the manufacturing environment is preferable
• An acceptable level of English understanding to be able to comply with and understand all verbal and written communication
• Numerically literate, being able to use a calculator and understand percentages.
• Being able to identify non‑conformances in the working area.
• Being able to articulate and communicate all performance issues and opportunities.
• Good understanding of KPIs, and understanding how a factory works