Job Description
```html Overview PepsiCo is on the lookout for a Senior Maintenance 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. This role will play an integral part in driving continuous improvement and process optimisation, instigating changes to improve work environment and systems, continuously seeking ways to improve efficiency. You will assist the production team and other functions with standardisation as well as micro and macro production efficiencies and improvements as needed. Research, test, and evaluate existing as well as implement new ways to improve process performance and cost-effective measures while maintaining safe practices and excellent quality. The Plant Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the efficiency, reliability, and safety of the plant's operations, as well as solving any technical problems that arise. Responsibilities Primary Accountabilities: Advocate and influence process and engineering improvements, passionately driving process excellence and continually striving for ‘breakthrough improvement’ in all projects. Lead and assist with the identification of engineering and site-wide improvement initiatives and innovative solutions to manufacturing, quality H&S challenges. Maintain close collaboration with Manufacturing when identifying and implementing improvement opportunities, providing prompt resolution to ongoing efficiency detractors or failures. Support sustainability-related projects driving resource conservation at Cork plants across water, energy, and waste as required. Participate and contribute to the local plant engineering strategic and capital planning process. Project identification with subsequent scope and business case preparation support. Ownership of key H&S or Technical programs, taking the program from a concept to a strategy, executing, and then controlling the program. Qualifications Essential Skills: 3rd level qualification with an Engineering focus/accreditation in any of the following areas: Chemical/Process, Mechanical/Electrical, Industrial Engineering, Production/Manufacturing, etc., and/or equivalent substantial experience working in this capacity. Knowledge and practical experience in using world-class manufacturing, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, and variation reduction techniques such as 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: Control systems Efficiency measures and Data analytics Machine reliability tools Engineering computer skills required (MS Office/ Excel/ PowerPoint/ AutoCAD/ MS Project). 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 Senior Maintenance Engineer. However, please note that the internal job title the successful candidate will have will be Info Maint/Eng Sr Engineer. ``` #J-18808-Ljbffr