Shift Technician / Multi - skilled Maintenance Engineer (mech & Elec Bias)

Maintenance Technician

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that in the UK includes Walkers, Doritos, Pepsi MAX, Quaker and Pipers. 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.

Join the world of PepsiCo Supply Chain, our factory in Leicester is our largest manufacturing site in the UK, producing the bulk of our PC products along with snacks lines. It is a multi-technology plant with significant automation and is home to around 1200 of our team. Our Leicester site is a fast paced and ever-changing environment, we can go from idea to implementation in a matter of days.

We offer a competitive salary, quarterly bonus incentive, critical Illness cover, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We're also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.

Responsibilities

As a technician, you will be a technical expert, utilising your specialist engineering knowledge within your field. To be responsible for your respective area, as well as other areas whenever manning and/or skills are required for you to do so. You will ensure the smooth running and maintenance of all manufacturing assets, whilst delivering optimum plant reliability through preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance, root cause analysis and continuous improvement. Providing support to the autonomous maintenance team to help grow and develop our capability.

Roles & Responsibilities

The Technician responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Demonstrate completion of all Quality checks pre and post maintenance activities, particular focus when carrying out all intrusive maintenance tasks.
• Comply to all regulatory and mandatory standards and ensuring conformance to local PepsiCo standards.
• Carry out maintenance activities in accordance with detailed safety precautions and procedures, influencing the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle for improvement of all procedures.
• Provide training, coaching and mentorship to autonomous maintenance team members on equipment knowledge, basic Clean-Inspect-Lubricate activities and fault diagnostics.
• Ownership of their personal skills needs assessment & develop an individual development plan with prioritisation versus requirements. Ensuring that critical skills are maintained.
• Demonstrate the importance of a good level of 5S across plant and within Maintenance areas such as the workshop, inventory and technical library areas.
• Develop lubrication maps, routes, execution, training autonomous maintenance team members, whilst supporting how we can simplify and rationalise our lubricants.
• Complete running/stopped maintenance activities on time and in full, having a proactive mindset towards maintenance execution - maximising wrench time. Proactively feeding back to the maintenance planners and maintenance leadership teams to influence plans/frequencies/allocated time/parts.
• To facilitate and coach root cause analysis sessions, being a proactive team member and providing technical expertise. Providing input and engagement, supporting root cause and identification of potential Clean-Inspect-Lubricate, centre lining and planned maintenance improvements.
• Ensuring compliance to the work order management and inventory standards and procedures. Accurate data quality including work order type, maintenance activity type, equipment selection and malfunction data.
• Adherence to maintenance instructions when performing maintenance activity during scheduled intervention. Ensuring that there is a feedback loop to change and amend maintenance instructions as part of PDCA, continuous improvement or outputs from root cause analysis. Ability to develop maintenance instructions with version control and differentiating maintenance activity types.
• Area ownership and technical responsibility, being present on your assigned area, being part of the line team.
• Always being the lead technical representative, providing technical support to all autonomous maintenance team members.
• Being responsible for all planned maintenance tasks assigned within their area/line.
• Maximising wrench time and ensuring productivity of our resource by prioritisation of workload. Can identify opportunity maintenance and apply an if-down-do mindset.

Qualifications

Key Skills & Capabilities

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent time served Engineering apprenticeship with proven hands on experience
• Recognised Electrical / Mechanical academic qualification
• Advanced Electro-Mechanical aptitude
• Electrical Testing & Inspecting - City & Guilds 2391 holder would be an advantage
• IET 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS 7671) qualification is desirable
• Understanding of SCADA control systems, computer systems, networking
• Working knowledge of PLC systems - Allen Bradley and/or Siemens an advantage
• Working knowledge of CMMS and SCADA systems and associated applications
• Good manufacturing practices
• Advanced Technical knowledge of Equipment and standards
• Advanced maintenance techniques
• Advanced Problem solving
• Mechanical comprehension
• Advanced coaching & facilitation
• Communication & listening
• Curiosity & Learning agility
• Ability to influence
• Prioritisation and Decision making
• Numerical & verbal comprehension
• Digital competence

Demonstrated ownership for safety, quality and operational performance

High level of personal responsibility for results

Ability to contribute as part of a team

Can do attitude and respect for people

Passion to learn, train, challenge and coach

Demonstrates the right commitment to applying processes

Role models PepsiCo values

We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us, and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

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.

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. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need.

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.