Operations Team Leader

PepsiCo; Leicester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo is seeking an Operations Team Leader in Leicester to oversee operational performance and safety within their manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will lead a team, manage key performance metrics, and foster an inclusive culture focused on continuous improvement. This role offers competitive benefits and career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive Pension Scheme

Subsidized canteen

Long term Service Reward

Health and wellbeing support

Electric cars through salary sacrifice

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing environment required.
• Strong ability to influence and motivate others.
• Good analytical skills with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for key performance metrics in area of responsibility.
• Responsible for the safety of all employees and compliance.
• Conduct development/performance conversations with team members.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Experience in a manufacturing environment

Tools

LSS tools

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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 $70 billion in net revenue in 2020.We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and have recently been voted a Top Employer for the 11th year in a row.

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 $70 billion in net revenue in 2020.We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and have recently been voted a Top Employer for the 11th year in a row.

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 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.

Through effective leadership of their operational teams, responsible for safely optimising and delivering performance across a balanced scorecard for their area of accountability.

Responsibilities

Shift- 4 On, 4 Off, 4 night

• Accountable for the delivery of the key performance metrics in area of responsibility (e.g. TE/PR, Waste, Volume Fill, PSA, safety, quality and IWS daily management systems).
• Responsible for the safety of all employees, visitors and contractors in area of responsibility including PPE compliance, safety coaching conversations, the coordination and completion of near misses and accident/incident investigation.
• Act as first escalation point for FLE team members on line and management of team.
• Conduct development/performance conversations with team member and hold regular 1-2-1s.
• Ensure required skills are in place for area of control including management of agency labour.
• Leads the shift DDS meetings ensuring that all losses are captured with actions to resolve.
• Responsible for ensuring all standard work tasks are completed according to identified cadence.
• Coach Teams in problem solving and changing behaviours to help improve people capability and Site KPI’s People/Safety, Food Safety/Quality, Cost and Service.
• Carries out investigations on shift regarding performance/people/quality/safety/environmental matters when an incident occurs within their area or as required to support the broader team.
• Will work closely with the other functional coordinators to ensure any planned downtime is delivered to the right standard and the right time to maximise service delivery.
• Respond effectively to critical issues, e.g. breakdowns, unplanned stops and emergency evacuations.
• Responsible for delivering line performance improvement through LSS tools.
• Cover for colleagues absences as and when necessary.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to deliver through others and create an inclusive culture to drive performance.
• Able to motivate and inspire others.
• Strong ability to influence others without having direct line accountability for them.
• Able to set expectations and hold others to account.
• Good analytical skills with a strong attention to detail.
• Understanding of Lean processes, in particular SIC and RCA.
• Experience of using LSS tools.
• Strong Team worker and contributor.
• Flexible, ‘can do,’ attitude to role and duties.
• Results driven and understands the link between action & results.
• A good communicator with individuals at all levels.
• Good computer skills.
• Good coaching skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills with ability to make informed decisions.
• Able to deal with sensitive information appropriately.
• Able to manage short term and long term priorities.
• Understands basic financial principles.
• Demonstrated care for people and their safety/wellbeing.
  
  

Special features:

• FLE Team - deliver performance through team motivation and engagement.
• Peer group with other Operations Team Leaders, Quality Coordinator and Resource and Capability Coordinator.
• Line structure team.
• Interface with Scheduling will be critical.
• Finance Team to ensure performance measures are accurate.
• Training team to ensure trained, safe and capable team.
• Engineering.
• Snr Ops Manager.
• EHS Coordinators and ESAT team members.
• Change Team.
  
  

Benefits-

Fix Salary+ Shift premium

Competitive Pension Scheme

PPE provided by the business.

Subsidized canteen

Long term Service Reward

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, 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.

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. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) ask our team.

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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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Manufacturing and Food and Beverage Services

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