Maintenance Technician

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Maintenance Technician to join our team at PepsiCo. As a Maintenance Technician, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth operation of our production facilities, maintaining equipment, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop the production equipment using the Preventative Maintenance Plan to minimize downtime.
• Develop and maintain excellent working knowledge of all equipment from potato intake, through washing, peeling, slicing, frying, sorting, flavoring, packing, and palletizing processes.
• Perform mechanical and electrical engineering repairs, including PLC updates, in conjunction with manufacturer standards where required.
• Maintain the critical spares/asset register/planned maintenance program logs.
• Collaborate in shift meetings to predict and resolve future problems.
• React to breakdowns in a timely manner, ensuring product quality is maintained and identify, where applicable, root causes of problems.
• Support the maintenance manager to analyze ongoing maintenance issues to propose solutions to prevent future downtime and maximize equipment uptime.
• Maintain a tidy and effective workshop and spares area.
• Support the wider factory team in delivering BRC accreditation and AIB at the targeted level.
• Ensure all work is carried out in a safe manner (both EHS and Food Safety).
• Provide support to and involvement in site Project and Change Initiatives (CIs) as appropriate.
• Work closely with contractors to ensure that PepsiCo receives the best service while meeting all regulatory and safety protocols on site.
• Support wider site maintenance programs (roof, car parks, CCTV, warehouse spaces, and utilities across both Watson and Pegasus Road sites).
• Safe and qualified use of equipment, including forklifts, cherry pickers, and shunt vehicles.
• Coach and support the GO group to develop their technical skills.
• Support site contractor activity through issuing Permit to Works and review of risk assessments and method statements (RAMS).

Requirements

• Good electrical and mechanical maintenance skills.
• Experience within a production environment.
• NVQ L3 or equivalent time-served engineering apprenticeship with proven hands-on experience.
• City & Guilds 2391 holder (Electrical Testing & Inspection).
• Strong team player who demonstrates a continuous improvement approach.
• Ability to manage and prioritize workloads to support business needs.
• Computer literate (Word, Excel, etc).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within a FMCG or high-volume continuous production environment.
• Experience of leading and coaching a team.