Maintenance & Reliability Leader – Plant & Facilities

Pepsico; Kentucky; On-site; USD 111,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 12% of annual salary

Paid time off

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

PepsiCo is seeking a Tech Services (Maintenance) Manager to own the site’s maintenance strategy across plant, warehouse, and utilities. You’ll lead reliability initiatives, manage preventive and predictive programs, and drive cost efficiency while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

You will oversee cross-functional teams, collaborate with operations, and guide a continuous improvement culture. Strong leadership, PLC/CMMS experience, and US work eligibility are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or maintenance disciplines.
• Lean Six Sigma experience preferred.
• 5+ years of operations maintenance experience.
• 5+ years of supervisory experience.
• Mechanical equipment maintenance experience.
• Understanding of PLC programming preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Must have indefinite right to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Own the plant's total maintenance strategy and execution, including preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance for all plant, warehouse, and utility assets.
• Lead the plant's reliability strategy and asset health across manufacturing lines, utilities, and infrastructure.
• Oversee preventive and predictive maintenance programs, down-day planning, overhauls, rebuilds, and use of diagnostic tools (e.g., vibration analysis, oil analysis).
• Drive failure analysis, defect elimination, and long-term reliability improvement plans.
• Optimize cost through reliability standardization, energy efficiency, and waste reduction.
• Own end-to-end plant and warehouse infrastructure, including buildings, utilities, grounds, racking, docks, and fixed assets.
• Maintain direct accountability for all utility systems: water, wastewater, steam, compressed air, refrigeration, boilers, and electrical systems.
• Ensure technical availability, mechanical efficiency, and asset readiness for all manufacturing lines.
• Ensure full compliance with Environmental Health & Safety, Food Safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Govern maintenance activities to meet lockout/tagout and safety standards.
• Utilize 5S and visual factory concepts to improve asset utilization and plant performance.
• Govern standard maintenance systems, work management processes, CMMS usage, and parts purchasing/inventory processes.
• Partner with OEMs to ensure equipment lifecycle compliance and reliability.
• Coordinate with maintenance teams to execute reliability activities and optimize asset management.
• Provide technical leadership on day-to-day operational issues involving reliability, maintenance, facilities, and process improvement.
• Collaborate with operations peers to deliver performance targets, including throughput, changeover performance, and line uptime.
• Support team and line ownership models in partnership with Operations Managers and line leads.
• Develop maintenance teams to address daily operational issues and achieve goals.
• Build technical capability through hiring, training, coaching, and effective communication.
• Lead change initiatives while minimizing people impact.
• Motivate team members and maintain strong employee relations.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma

Maintenance supervision

MS Office

PLC programming

CMMS

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or maintenance

Tools

CMMS

Job description

PepsiCo is seeking a Tech Services (Maintenance) Manager to own the site’s maintenance strategy across plant, warehouse, and utilities. You’ll lead reliability initiatives, manage preventive and predictive programs, and drive cost efficiency while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

You will oversee cross-functional teams, collaborate with operations, and guide a continuous improvement culture. Strong leadership, PLC/CMMS experience, and US work eligibility are required.