Site Sustainability & Resource Conservation Lead

Ciwmjobs; Leicester; Presencial; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Bonus

Flexible working

Electric car schemes

Descripción de la vacante

PepsiCo UK is seeking a dynamic leader to drive the site Sustainability and Resource Conservation (RECON) agenda at the Leicester site. You will develop and deliver strategies to reduce energy, water, and waste, while supporting operational excellence and cost reduction across Engineering, Operations, and Leadership teams.

As a senior leader, you will champion sustainability, embed conservation principles, and align long-term business planning with regulatory compliance and best practices.

Formación

• BTEC HNC in a relevant electromechanical discipline or equivalent vocational experience.
• NEBOSH General Certificate.
• IOSH Managing Safety Critical Experiences.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the Leicester Manufacturing energy resource conservation program (RECON), driving the site energy and water reduction plan.
• Build a strategic roadmap with maturity model alignment and empower personnel.
• Liaise with external contractors and agencies for performance and value.
• Proactively seek energy or waste reduction projects and initiatives.
• Ensure safety and environmental management across the span of responsibility.
• Develop energy budgets and a +5-year saving program aligned with productivity plans.
• Manage energy reading assets and monitoring records.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Energy management

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Regulatory compliance

Energy auditing

Coaching

Educación

BTEC HNC in electromechanical discipline

NEBOSH General Certificate

IOSH Managing Safety

Herramientas

MP2

SAP

Excel

Descripción del empleo

Overview

At PepsiCo UK, we’re proud to make some of the nation’s favourite snacks and drinks—like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. With sites across the UK, including our Quaker mill in Cupar and Doritos factory in Coventry, we’re also home to one of the world’s largest crisp factories in Leicester.

We are looking for a passionate and influential leader to drive our site's Sustainability and Resource Conservation (RECON) agenda. This role will be responsible for developing and delivering strategies that reduce energy, water and waste consumption while supporting operational excellence, cost reduction and environmental compliance.

Working across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance and Leadership teams, the successful candidate will champion a culture of sustainability, ensuring conservation principles are embedded into everyday activities and long-term business planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Leicester Manufacturing energy resource conservation program (RECON), driving the site energy and water reduction plan.
• Building a strategic roadmap in alignment with the maturity model, developing capability and empowering all personnel along the journey.
• Liaise and negotiate with external contractors, council services and other relevant organizations for performance and best value.
• Proactively seek out projects and initiatives which will reduce energy or waste.
• Responsible for Safety and Environmental Management across span of responsibility to ensure legal and regulatory compliance.
• Building the energy annual operating plan budget
• Develop a +5-year energy saving program in align with site productivity plans.
• Manage the assets associated with energy reading and monitoring.
• Manage and maintain accurate and timely records for energy monitoring.
• Benchmark energy consumption against best practice guidelines and manage all elements with legislation.
• Implementing energy management processes, internal and external reporting on energy consumption and initiatives
• Co-ordinating with technical staff and undertaking energy surveys, feasibility studies and implementing energy reduction projects, and supporting the engineering and project teams to implement energy reduction projects.

Qualifications

• BTEC HNC in a relevant electromechanical discipline – or equivalent vocational experience
• NEBOSH General Certificate
• IOSH Managing Safety Critical Experiences:
• In-depth knowledge of electrical and mechanical disciplines, ideally from within a food manufacturing or FMCG environment
• Proven problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience - In a similar role with transferable competency set as above.
• Proven experience with Carbon Reduction Legislation as-well as Energy Saving Opportunity Schemes (ESOS), energy usage and potential energy savings.
• Familiarity with computer software (word, excel, etc.) and knowledge of computer maintenance planning systems (MP2 or SAP) would also be advantageous.
• Experience of a fast paced, technical manufacturing environment.
• Passion for Operations and experience of leading teams across a 24x7 Operation.
• Strong influencing skills with the ability to manage in all directions, including influencing upwards in the organisation and across other sites and functions.
• Dealing with external agencies e.g. HSE, EA.
• Comfortable dealing with difficult discussions and situations.
• A team player who is able to adapt to different audiences with a strong coaching style.
• Excellent coordination skills, able to manage own time and gain time commitment from others with reference to action and improvement plans.

Why Join Us?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.

Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will provide any necessary adjustments to support you through the recruitment process.

About PepsiCo

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly$92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio thatincludes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. 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 pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital 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, visitwww.pepsico.com, and follow onX (Twitter),Instagram,Facebook, andLinkedIn @PepsiCo.