Process / Plant Engineer

PepsiCo; Municipal District of Cobh; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo in Ireland is hiring a Senior Plant / Process Engineer to enhance production processes and efficiency. The candidate will lead engineering projects, provide technical support across teams, and ensure operational excellence through process improvements. This role demands strong qualifications in engineering and a minimum of 5 years of relevant manufacturing experience. The successful applicant will be involved in continuous improvement initiatives and uphold safety standards while collaborating closely with various departments to achieve production goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering/technical experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of Six Sigma, DMAIC, and FMEA tools.
• Experience in process engineering in a manufacturing setting.

Responsibilities

• Monitor equipment and process performance for continuous improvement.
• Provide technical support to maintenance and manufacturing teams.
• Lead engineering and site-wide improvement initiatives.

Skills

Technical support

Process optimization

Six Sigma

Lean manufacturing

Communication skills

Education

3rd level qualification in Engineering

Tools

MS Office

AutoCAD

MS Project

Job description

Overview

The Senior Plant / Process Engineer is responsible for optimising production processes, improving plant efficiency, and supporting safe, reliable manufacturing operations. The role leads process improvements, supports production/process troubleshooting, and drives engineering projects related to plant equipment, utilities, and manufacturing systems.

The position works closely with production, quality assurance, maintenance, and other teams to ensure consistent product quality, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.

Advocate and influence process and equipment uptime, promote engineering and reliability improvements, passionately driving process performance and continually striving to eliminate equipment/process downtime. Technical Support- on going support to Maintenance, production, quality & EHS departments including diagnosis & resolution of process related faults, waste reduction initiatives & equipment reliability. Analysis existing processes and equipment performance via various data reports and develop and drive corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for Technical support on a manufacturing shift. Monitor equipment and process performance. Identify improvements and process optimisation and equipment uptime criteria. Instigating issues or deviations from required output. Improve work environment and systems, continuously seeking ways to improve efficiency.
• Lead and assist with identification of engineering and site-wide improvement initiatives and innovative solutions to manufacturing, quality H&S challenges
• Maintain close collaboration with Maintenance & Manufacturing teams when identifying and implementing improvement opportunities, provide prompt resolution to on-going efficiency detractors
• Provide technical support to the maintenance and manufacturing shift teams. Support efficient operations within the production area, to optimise existing processes to ensure that production and maintenance goals are met
• Monitor performance of equipment, machines and maintenance activities. Offer recommendations that corrects equipment problems or low yields or product quality issues
• Ownership of key H&S or Technical programs, taking the program from a concept to a strategy, execute and then control the program
• Support the maintenance departments in both Concentrate site and the FFP, in Six Sigma approach to problem solving, Fishbone, FMEA and Root Cause analysis
• Assist and lead teams investigating Quality related issues, such as customer complaints and process related issues
• Participates within project teams, provide technical support and make informed decisions
• Practical Experience in process engineering/ industrial engineering in a manufacturing environment is desirable

Qualifications

• 3rd level qualification with an Engineering focus/accreditation in any of the following areas: Chemical/Process, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Production etc. and/or equivalent substantial experience working in this capacity.
• Min 5 years engineering/ technical experience in a manufacturing environment
• Knowledge and practical experience in using world-class manufacturing, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement and variation reduction techniques e.g. Six Sigma, DMAIC and FMEA tools.
• Demonstrable experience or understanding of Process/Plant equipment
• Good understanding and experience of current manufacturing technologies and methodologies used in manufacturing:
  • Efficiency measures
  • Machine reliability tools
• Basic engineering computer skills required (MS Office/ Excel/ PowerPoint/ AutoCAD/ MS Project
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively interact with and influence employees at all levels of the organisation. Proven ability to learn quickly on the job and ability to transfer learnings to other team members through coaching and mentoring
• Ability to analyze & process high volumes of information, manage multiple priorities in a timely manner, with precise attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy
• Observe HSE regulations, encourages safe working practices and assist in compliance reviews, general risk assessments and other safety assessments to support Health, Safety and Environmental management

Overview (Secondary Language)

For the purposes of external advertising we have called this role Process/Plant Engineer. However please note that the internal job title the successful candidate will be Process Eng Sr Engineer.