Technician

PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH; Leicester; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global snack and beverage company in Leicester is seeking a Technician. In this role, you will conduct regular tests and inspections of fire alarms and sprinkler systems while ensuring compliance with legal requirements. The ideal candidate has a strong background in facilities maintenance and excellent analytical skills. You will manage both internal and external servicing of site equipment and support capital investment projects, offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Flexible working

Car allowance

Discounted gym memberships

Enhanced parental leave

Electric car schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in maintaining facilities equipment and services.
• Highly numerate with analytical thinking.
• Strong influencing skills for planning and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance inspections and repairs on site facilities.
• Manage permit to work for external contractors.
• Carry out energy monitoring and report high usage.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication abilities

Computer literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP)

Job description

Overview

Technician - SRDC Leicester

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. At the end of 2025 we will move our UK office to a vibrant new Reading town centre location, just minutes from Reading train station.

Why Join Us?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, 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.

A Space to be You

We celebrate individuality and are committed to building an inclusive workplace. Our Employee Resource Groups help embed inclusion into our culture, ensuring everyone feels valued and heard.

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 that includes 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, visit www.pepsico.com, and follow on X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.

Main Purpose

Carry out regular weekly tests & inspections to site Fire Alarm & Sprinkler System, ensure all paper work is kept up to date to ensure site legal compliance.

Salary: £34,230 / 42 hours a week

Responsibilities

• Carry out maintenance inspection & repairs to the building facilities on site; carry out functional inspections of all site services (SRDC & Tollwell Road) such as Compressors, Racking, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems, Sprinkler systems, Fire detection systems. Reporting to the Facilities on a day-today basis; who reports to the Site Engineering Manager. The role has supporting links with the Engineering department, operations, H & S, & external contractors.
• Ensure all servicing is carried out to site service equipment, both internally & by external companies.
• Manage day to day activities & Control permit to work for external contractors who carry out services to site Facilities & Services.
• Support with the design & justification for Capital Investment for site services.
• Carry out energy monitoring of key site service equipment flag any high usages & plan to remedy to issues.

Decision making authority

• Ensure all documents are filed & up to date for all site services, flag any issues raised from service visits.
• Owner of day to day plan for site service repairs.
• Use own initiative to try & resolve issues with Site Services without reference to line manager.
• Raise issues that are not straight forward or will affect plant efficiency direct to Facilities Manager.
• Highlight to Facilities Manager any issues with contractors; ensure contractors carry out correct work as per order.
• Daily contact with Facilities Manager to review work plan but the person is expected to work off their own initiative majority of the time.

Qualifications

• Qualifications and/or knowledge and experience of maintaining Facilities equipment and services.
• Highly numerate, with analytical thinking.
• RCA / analytical problem solving skills or equivalent.
• RCM / FMEA knowledge or formal qualification.
• Excellent organisational skills – ability to handle multiple work streams.
• Computer literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP).
• Track record in coaching and strong influencing skills to achieve commitment to planning/reliability agenda.
• Decision making and communication abilities, demonstrated at all levels.
• Must demonstrate assertiveness and confidence to take an active part in meetings with fellow employees and external contractors at all levels particularly QCDM meetings.
• Highly motivated and a strong team player with good people skills, having effective written and verbal communication skills across a range of contacts, both within the organisation and beyond.
• Willingness to complete continuing professional development courses with an engineering biased to further potentially progress within the engineering department.

*For certain roles, we may ask you to declare any unspent criminal convictions in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 at a later stage in the recruitment process and prior to any offer of employment being made. This information will be treated in strict confidence and considered only in relation to your suitability for the role.