Shift Technician

Overview

We are looking for Shift Technician in Cupar!

Pepsi Co 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. Pepsi Co 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. Join the world of Pepsi Co Supply Chain, our Cupar manufacturing site in Scotland is our only oats site and has been milling oats for over 100 years. It joined the Pepsi Co family in 2001 and produces market-leading products such as Quaker Oats, Quaker Oats So Simple, Scott’s Porage Oats and Scott’s So Easy.

Your leadership, innovation and problem-solving skills will be utilised to the fullest; where in this fast paced and ever-changing environment, we can go from idea to implementation in a matter of days. You will be inspired by the drive of your team and feel a true sense of connection and comradery with your colleagues who are proud to work in Cupar.

Provide reactive, proactive and preventative engineering support to the site manufacturing operation, delivering optimum plant availability and reliability through the execution of the asset maintenance strategy and improvement programme.

£49 803,74 (including shift allowance)

Shift Technicians are expected to be flexible in their approach to work to support business needs. This list is not exhaustive:

• Carry out planned, preventative and reactive maintenance and inspections using Electrical, Control System and Mechanical Engineering skills
• Support site Reliability agenda:
  Identification of failure modes and trends, leading and completing root cause analysis (RCA) for Engineering losses, driving and delivering RCA actions.
• Proactive & logical fault prevention along with continuous improvement activity to deliver the sites key KPI’s.
• Support and coaching of the FL teams (GO, MT) to develop their technical and problem-solving skills.
• Provide support to site Project and Change Initiatives as required.
• Issue PTW’s as required to support operational and corrective activities
• Contractor Control:
  Support site contractor activity through issuing Permit to Works and review of risk assessments and method statements (RAMS).
• Documenting and executing detailed handovers between shifts Documenting detailed work reports in CMMS (SAP) to allow for detailed fault analysis and improvement work streams to be identified
• Activities will include working at Height, Confined spaces, Hot work, Fire investigation/Incident support

• Ability to manage and prioritise workloads to support business needs.
• Shift contact with line manager

• Able to raise Purchase Requisition s and order spares from stores.
• No direct reports, however, strong Coaching and development of FL team will be required.

• NVQ L3 or equivalent time served Engineer with proven hands‑on experience.
  
  - Essential
• HNC qualification or equivalent experience. – Electrical/Mechanical
• Recognised Electrical Qualification or working towards (Pepsico Level 3 equivalent), ie 18th edition (not essential) - Desirable
• Strong Electro-Mechanical aptitude is essential.
• Working knowledge of PLC systems - Allen Bradley and/or Siemens an advantage.
  
  - Desirable
• Experience with in a FMCG or high-volume continuous production environment.
• Excellent diagnostic and problem‑solving skills, incorporating data analysis and trending
• Working knowledge of CMMS systems and the associated applications
• Working knowledge of SCADA systems and the associated applications
• Computer literate (Word, excel, etc).
• Excellent influencing, coaching, communication and decision‑making skills.
• Strong team player who demonstrates a continuous improvement approach.
• Ability to manage and prioritise workloads to support business needs.
• Requirement to remain calm in pressurised breakdown environments