Maintenance Supervisor

PepsiCo; Cork; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo is seeking a Maintenance Shift Associate Supervisor for a one-year fixed-purpose role in Little Island, Ireland. This position involves leading a team in ensuring the maintenance program is effective while maintaining machine efficiency across the site.

The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of technical experience in manufacturing, proficient in MS Office, and skilled in people management. The role requires adherence to health and safety regulations while supporting maintenance operations across a 24/5 schedule.

Qualifications

• Min 3 years technical experience in a manufacturing environment with significant people management.
• Solid understanding and experience of plant and facilities technologies.
• Ability to track and manage ordering of supplies, services, and spare parts.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day reactive, preventive maintenance schedules across shifts.
• Lead the Maintenance Shift Team in repairing equipment to minimize downtime.
• Manage and process high volume of calls and requests.

Skills

Technical experience in a manufacturing environment

People management

MS Office/Excel/PowerPoint/MS Teams

Analytical skills

Knowledge of HSE regulations

Tools

SAP PM

PLC & SCADA control systems

Fire Alarm system

Air handling & HVAC system

Boiler and compressed air systems

Job description

Overview

PepsiCo is on the look-out for a Maintenance Shift Associate Supervisor to join our Maintenance function based in Little Island, for a one-year fixed-purpose opportunity. The main objectives of the role are to ensure that the maintenance program and strategies are delivered across the Little Island site. The shift team lead is responsible for ensuring machinery used to produce our concentrate products run to their maximum efficiency and output. This includes total preventive maintenance, managing breakdowns of mechanical, electrical, and robotic equipment (including software programming) across a 24/5 operation with some systems running 24/7.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the day-to-day reactive, preventive maintenance and statutory compliance schedules across shifts.
• Lead the Maintenance Shift Team in the repair of day-to-day equipment and system issues to minimise downtime. Support the Maintenance continuous improvement culture through team participation in various initiatives across the technical function.
• Organise the reactive, preventive maintenance and statutory compliance schedules for plant equipment and facilities across the Little Island site.
• Co‑ordinate the frontline craft shift team on repair and maintenance of facilities and plant equipment across the site, including contractors/vendors. This includes review of method statements, risk assessments, LOTO and issuing of work permits and review and sign‑off of service reports.
• Liaise with production on machine uptime and availability of equipment and drive machine performance through data review and performance metrics of the Maintenance teams across each shift.
• Lead the Maintenance team in implementing the plant preventive maintenance schedule and ensure the preventive maintenance system is kept up to date based on functional KPIs. Provide leadership and supervision to the Maintenance team in the maintenance, repair, modification and continuous improvement, project support, installation and testing of all types of plant equipment and automation systems. Plan out and assign work, delegating tasks to individual craft members and ensuring timely completion of the same.
• Provide technical support to each function on day-to-day activities across shift, manage and process high volume of calls and requests.
• Support the maintenance department in problem solving, root cause investigation and major breakdown reports, reliability‑centred maintenance, updating shift handover to reflect daily issues and challenges. Develop robust detailed handover reports at the end of shift and hand off with incoming shift on key priorities and watchouts.
• Support project & equipment handover, ensuring all new equipment is added to CMMS and all maintenance work tasks are developed as per recommendation (site requirements, vendor recommendations etc).
• Support daily/weekly shift meetings and other site initiatives across a 24/5 operation.
• Adhere to all the H&S and Quality requirements in the site by actively leading the team in the sites drive to Health and Safety Excellence and a culture‑based system journey.
• Ensure delivery of the maintenance weekly plan and compliance with the global monthly Maintenance KPIs.

Qualifications

• Min 3 years technical experience in a manufacturing environment with significant people management of frontline unionised employees.
• Ability to track and manage ordering of supplies, services and spare parts.
• Solid understanding and experience of plant and facilities technologies.
• Computer skills required include MS Office/Excel/PowerPoint/MS Teams.
• Ability to analyse service reports and statutory compliance requirements and manage multiple priorities in a timely manner, with precise attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
• Observe HSE regulations, encourage safe working practices and assist in compliance reviews, general risk assessments and other safety assessments to support Health, Safety and Environmental management.
• PLC & SCADA control systems are beneficial.
• Fire Alarm and fire protection system are beneficial.
• Air handling & HVAC system are beneficial.
• Boiler and compressed air systems are beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience working with computerized maintenance management systems (SAP PM) is beneficial.