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Engineer II: Bakeries Technical and Engineering HQ

Job in Cape Town, 7100, South Africa
Listing for: PepsiCo
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-24
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Manufacturing Engineer, Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Quality Engineering, Process Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Overview

About Pepsi Co

Pepsi Co products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Pepsi Co generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and Soda Stream. Pepsi Co'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.

Guiding Pepsi Co is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with Pepsi Co Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.

Responsibilities

What we're looking for
:
We're looking for an Engineer II:
Bakeries Technical and Engineering
based in Cape Town.

The purpose of the role is to:

  • Set up, implement and drive Asset Care Program including PeMM audits and best practive implementation,
  • Enable plant & equipment reliability including the reduction of breakdowns
  • Drive line TE / NE performance improvement in line with bakeries Make productivity targets & productivity pipeline
  • Support and enable capex / opex projects including process optimisation through equipment upgrades, modifications, overall maintenance and implementation of latest technology to enable quality and throughput enhancement
  • Support the Annual Opex budget and other Key Performance metrics (PeP+)
  • The incumbent will serve as a subject matter expert in plant maintenance guiding and supporting maintenance managers in the maintainence of plant and equipment, including shutdowns and projects execution. He/She They will support proactive and reactive maintenance and repairs to the plant and services associated with bakery including Technical investigations and solutions. Responsibilities also involve ensuring quality and process improvement, equipment reliability & Performance, improving and maintaining a safe working environment, ensuring compliance with all Health & Safety standards, company and legal requirements in line with Pepsico EHS, MESS and L2O targets and projects.

    Accountabilities:

    Asset Care

  • Assist with and/or set up of maintenance policy, strategy and systems and the implementation thereof.
  • Professionally and systematically defines designs, develops, monitors and refines the Asset Maintenance Plan that includes:
    Value-added preventive maintenance tasks, ensuring the rollout and implementation thereof.
  • Manage overall preventative maintenance system and optimise plant & equipment reliability and performance
  • Suport the Bakery Maintenance managers in optimising preventative maintenance system and plant & equipment reliability and performance
  • Act as Engineering gatekeeper on bakeries maintenance schedules, their suitabiltiy, effectiveness and execution
  • Provide technical stewardship to bakeries maintenance managers on maintaining equipment in the best condition for safety, quality and performance.
  • Conduct regular audits (PeMM, Anchor, etc)
  • Plan Performance (TE/NE) - Breakdowns

  • Enabling in conjunction with the plan, the reduction of Unscheduled and Scheduled Downtime and speed losses of TE/NE
  • Engage with Plant Engineering by providing technical leadership & Subject Matter Expertise to drive Reliability Improvement.
  • Enable and drive Technical investigations and solutions, (RCA etc)
  • Manage maintenance performance scorecard
  • Support process optimisation, incl. damages reduction and implementation of latest technology
  • Support Bakery maintenance managers with internal / technical / process projects (incl. major shutdowns, breakdowns, machine installations
  • Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues as well as damages reduction.
  • Projects (CAPEX & Other)

  • Enable process optimisation through equipment…
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