Global Process Safety Senior Engineer

Overview

PepsiCo is on the look-out for a Global Process Safety Senior Engineer to join our global engineering function based in Cork.

We are the concentrate business in PepsiCo (PGCS) working across the Beverage, Nutrition and Snacks categories to deliver concentrate for many of PepsiCo’s mega brands including Gatorade, 7Up and Pepsi. We are at the heart of PepsiCo products consumed everywhere in the world, spanning globally sourcing ingredients to manufacturing and distributing across the globe PGCS is a multi-functional business unit offering careers in various functions from Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Finance, Tax, Customs & Trade, R&D, HR and IT. We want team members who can collaborate in our fast-paced global organisation and are passionate about creating and delivering much-loved household brands to markets across the world.

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.

Reporting to the Global Design Engineering Lead, this role will be responsible for process safety design engineering required to delivery of the strategic capital agenda and key global programs and initiatives.

The role will be responsible for ensuring the relevant process safety requirements are implemented.

Key challenges will be to insure robust systems are in place to deliver the process safety requirements, leveraging key learnings, best practices, new technology, problem solving and innovative design solutions to deliver a complex capital agenda while ensuring alignment and input from all key stakeholders.

• Provide Process Safety Engineering capability specializing in process design solutions for PGCS Beverage Concentrate Manufacturing Platforms
• Ensure new & existing products/formulas are manufactured to PepsiCo standards and consumer expectations
• Lead the design of key Strategic Capital Programs and Initiatives
• Develop designs incorporating innovative solutions and leverage new technology to deliver value to the business
• Develop and leverage best practices from PepsiCo divisions as well as from other industries to deliver world class performance in plant and equipment design.
• Provide technical guidance during project design and implementation, including Commissioning & Process Qualification, to assure viability of technology in proposed configuration
• Utilize Engineering first principles, scientific methods, and processing systems knowledge to develop technical process equipment solutions that both create new business opportunities and solve existing equipment needs.
• Develop sustainable engineering practices and programmes ensuring sustainability in plant design and operation

• 5-10 years process industry experience in liquids and powders processing & overall plant manufacturing engineering.
• Extensive design & project management experience
• Process safety experience.
• Degree qualification in Chemical, Process, or equivalent engineering discipline.
• Experience required in the following areas:

1. Application of technical standards (Machinery Safety, Atex Directives, FM Global data sheets etc)
2. Hygienic design
3. Process safety
4. Management of projects from concept level, front end design & detail design
5. Business case and capital approval
6. Design, Procurement and Installation
7. Construction, Commissioning and Validation
8. Environmental, health and safety management
9. Contractor and Construction Management

1. Team management
2. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Change management advocative
• Proven experience delivering the design safety aspects of medium to large capital projects on an on-going operation in a diverse environment
• Experience with ; FM Global standards, Machinery Safety & ATEX standards
• This role requires significant technical competency in the engineering field and the ability to influence key stakeholders to drive change in operational methods and the ability to manage teams of contractors and staff to deliver projects to a high standard.

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generatedmore than $79 billionin 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 SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than$1 billioneach in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo 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. For more information, visit .

For the purposes of external advertising we have called this role a Global Process Safety Senior Engineer . However please note that the internal job title the successful candidate will have will be SC Eng Sr Engineer.