Overview
PepsiCo is on the lookout for a Maintenance Shift Engineer to join our team in Cork on a permanent basis.
The Technical Function is our team of enabling experts offering knowledge and partnership to functions on specialist subjects including engineering, quality and productivity. They ensure operations and food safety excellence for our team.
Could you bring a new dimension to our technical expertise? If so, we could take your talents to a whole new level.
Advocate and influence process and equipment uptime, promote engineering and reliability improvements, passionately driving process performance and continually striving to eliminate equipment downtime. Technical Support- ongoing support to Maintenance, production, quality & EHS departments including diagnosis & resolution of faults, waste reduction initiatives & equipment reliability. Analyze existing processes and equipment performance via various data reports and develop and drive corrective actions. Monitor Maintenance and production metrics.
Responsibilities
Primary Accountabilities:
* 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, providing prompt resolution to ongoing 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 correct 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, FMEA and Root Cause analysis.
* Assist and lead teams investigating Quality related issues, such as customer complaints and process related issues.
* Participate within project teams, provide technical support and make informed decisions.
* Practical Experience in process engineering/ industrial engineering in a manufacturing environment is desirable.
Qualifications
Essential Skills:
* 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 3 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 capital projects.
* Good understanding and experience of current manufacturing technologies and methodologies used in manufacturing:
PLC & SCADA control system
Efficiency measures
Machine reliability tools.
* Basic engineering computer skills required (MS Office/ Excel/ PowerPoint/ AutoCAD/ MS Project).
Additional Skills:
* 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.
* Experience of managing change programmes and initiatives.
* Demonstrate project leadership, interpersonal skills and effective communication.
* Ability to analyse & process high volumes of information, manage multiple priorities in a timely manner, with precise attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
* Play a key role in the review, approval and execution process of validation protocols.
* 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.
Who We are:
* We are a Manufacturing Unit in PepsiCo, sourcing ingredients to manufacture more than 1,200 recipes for PepsiCo’s mega brands including Gatorade, 7Up and Pepsi.
* We are a global organization offering careers in various functions from Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Finance, R&D, HR and IT.
* We are passionate about creating and delivering much-loved household brands to markets across the world.
At PepsiCo, opportunity is for everyone.
* Recognised as a Great Place to Work in Ireland, PepsiCo fosters a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion with acceptance and respect for all employees.
* ‘A space to be you’ is our initiative that creates a collaborative, equitable and inclusive space where everyone, regardless of what we look like, where we come from or who we love, has a voice.
* PepsiCo is a supportive work environment that provides a sense of community for employees. We work with our employees to ensure they have reasonable accommodations they need to be at their best.
* pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) is a core strategy of PepsiCo, placing sustainability at the centre of our business to have a positive impact on the planet and people.
For the purposes of external advertising, we have called this role a Maintenance Shift Engineer. However please note that the internal job title the successful candidate will have will be Maint/Eng Assoc Engineer.
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