Line Engineering Lead

Overview PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! 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 $86 billion in net revenue in 2022. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row. Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability 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 The role of the Line Engineering Lead is to implement and/or to maintain and continuously improve the maintenance planning and scheduling (MPS) and breakdown elimination (BDE) daily management system (DMS) for their area, to coach line teams to improve technical ability, and to provide a continuity link to other Progressive Maintenance (PM) systems. Responsibilities To ensure the lines are not constrained due to the lack of technical capability or knowledge. To ensure all maintenance tasks are planned, organized, and executed with the least effort at the best cost. To transfer knowledge to the line teams, and to ensure that the proper level of skills and qualification successfully deploy the loss elimination skills needed for the line to deliver the line and team goals. To provide coaching, teaching, and assessment of the Progressive Maintenance (PM) and the Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Steps implementation. Planning and scheduling maintenance work. Reviewing and prioritizing SAP work orders and notifications within 24 hours of generation. Ensuring that the work order backlog is current and sorted for reporting, and managing how best to meet the compelling business need (CBN). Tracking and reporting maintenance indicator results and in-process measures. Ensuring all equipment design change proposals (corrective maintenance) and adding / deleting / modifying work follow-up change management (CM) procedures. Developing improvement plans. Identifying through the tracking of maintenance indicators and in-process measures. Identifying losses and improvement themes to eliminate losses. Owning, developing, and tracking improvement theme action plans. Champion and lead the continuous improvement (CI) process. Reduced number of breakdowns due to improper maintenance overhaul / restoration procedures. Improved downtime due to scheduled maintenance being optimized, reduced, and at a target to deliver line goals in support of the compelling business need. Updated standards and procedures; maintenance costs (parts and labor) reduced and in line with budget. Equipment performance is controlled and predictable due to a percent increase of planned maintenance work. Qualifications Ideally you will have experience from a FMCG or similar production/manufacturing environment. Ability to influence technicians, line operation leads, and process engineers, as required. Ability to teach, coach, and develop others. Have on-the-floor technical credibility with the people doing the work. Have effective communication skills, including the ability to be an active listener, and also the ability to both positively confront and be assertive, when necessary. Have a passion for the work, and the drive and ability to help others see the losses. Be personally committed to the self-development required of the role. Have integrated work system (IWS) and operational experience and skills, or the ability to quickly build the skills of at least the phase in which the plant or facility is currently working. Have had a line assignment in manufacturing, and be capable of operating the equipment and of owning an area or piece of equipment, as necessary. Possess a flexible mindset, e.g., a willingness to flow with the work, and to cover training and breaks, as required, to deliver the line key performance indicators (KPIs). Be willing to actively participate in planned stops and changeovers (COs), flowing to the work as required. Having a work process improvement (WPI) Level 4 capability is highly desirable. Ideally comes from an engineering background whether that be an advanced apprenticeship in an engineering discipline or Bachelor Degree within engineering. Benefits- Fix Salary+ some special Allowances Competitive Pension Scheme PPE provided by the business. Subsidized canteen Long term Service Reward Why PepsiCo? We offer a competitive salary, bonus, critical Illness cover, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have 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. 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. A space to be y( )u We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That’s why we’ve empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) ask our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin. To enable you to be at your best we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need


To ensure the lines are not constrained due to the lack of technical capability or knowledge. To ensure all maintenance tasks are planned, organized, and executed with the least effort at the best cost. To transfer knowledge to the line teams, and to ensure that the proper level of skills and qualification successfully deploy the loss elimination skills needed for the line to deliver the line and team goals. To provide coaching, teaching, and assessment of the Progressive Maintenance (PM) and the Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Steps implementation. Planning and scheduling maintenance work. Reviewing and prioritizing SAP work orders and notifications within 24 hours of generation. Ensuring that the work order backlog is current and sorted for reporting, and managing how best to meet the compelling business need (CBN). Tracking and reporting maintenance indicator results and in-process measures. Ensuring all equipment design change proposals (corrective maintenance) and adding / deleting / modifying work follow-up change management (CM) procedures. Developing improvement plans. Identifying through the tracking of maintenance indicators and in-process measures. Identifying losses and improvement themes to eliminate losses. Owning, developing, and tracking improvement theme action plans. Champion and lead the continuous improvement (CI) process. Reduced number of breakdowns due to improper maintenance overhaul / restoration procedures. Improved downtime due to scheduled maintenance being optimized, reduced, and at a target to deliver line goals in support of the compelling business need. Updated standards and procedures; maintenance costs (parts and labor) reduced and in line with budget. Equipment performance is controlled and predictable due to a percent increase of planned maintenance work.


Ideally you will have experience from a FMCG or similar production/manufacturing environment. Ability to influence technicians, line operation leads, and process engineers, as required. Ability to teach, coach, and develop others. Have on-the-floor technical credibility with the people doing the work. Have effective communication skills, including the ability to be an active listener, and also the ability to both positively confront and be assertive, when necessary. Have a passion for the work, and the drive and ability to help others see the losses. Be personally committed to the self-development required of the role. Have integrated work system (IWS) and operational experience and skills, or the ability to quickly build the skills of at least the phase in which the plant or facility is currently working. Have had a line assignment in manufacturing, and be capable of operating the equipment and of owning an area or piece of equipment, as necessary. Possess a flexible mindset, e.g., a willingness to flow with the work, and to cover training and breaks, as required, to deliver the line key performance indicators (KPIs). Be willing to actively participate in planned stops and changeovers (COs), flowing to the work as required. Having a work process improvement (WPI) Level 4 capability is highly desirable. Ideally comes from an engineering background whether that be an advanced apprenticeship in an engineering discipline or Bachelor Degree within engineering. Benefits- Fix Salary+ some special Allowances Competitive Pension Scheme PPE provided by the business. Subsidized canteen Long term Service Reward Why PepsiCo? We offer a competitive salary, bonus, critical Illness cover, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have 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. 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. A space to be y( )u We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That’s why we’ve empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) ask our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin. To enable you to be at your best we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need