Strategic Manufacturing Solutions Engineer

Overview

PepsiCo is on the look-out for a Strategic Manufacturing Solutions 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 Senior Global Design Manager this is a central global role based in Ireland.

This role is responsible for providing a critical analysis of capacity requirements across PGCS and in collaboration with supply chain and operations, to develop optimised end to end solutions to deliver the correct operational solution to address the needs of the business.

This role will be responsible for planning for future capacity needs, identifying capital requirements, optimizing exiting capacity and ensuring a BCP (business continuity plan ) is in place for all products across PGCS.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Lead the critical analysis of capacities and in collaboration with supply chain and operations develop an optimised end to end solutions.
• Understanding of base line plant capabilities and identification of potential solution to hot spots identified during the capacity analysis
• Lead & develop new and optimized solutions to deliver the growth agenda
• Review and assess changes to capacity and develop end to end engineering solutions to optimise the existing asset base.
• Translate Supply chain requirements (Capacity/Capability and BCP) into executable projects to address manufacturing gaps.
• Optimise the selection of the site and equipment needed to support changes in capacity
• Identify equipment and changes to plant configuration to enable increase/decrease in capacity
• Lead & support the business case development for capital driven by growth, sugar reduction and innovation
• Ensure plant capabilities can deliver the BCP objectives
• Work with R&D to develop innovative solutions to deliver the future growth agenda
• Support the LAMASOFT model and assumption for model parameters
• Develop and leverage best practices from PepsiCo divisions as well as from other industries to deliver world class performance in plant and equipment design.
• Responsible for the capacity’s solutions needed to deliver the business needs.
• Provide technical guidance to the design teams.

QUALIFICATIONS

Min 8/10 years process industry experience in engineering with additional operations or maintenance exposure and extensive capital project management experience

• Degree qualification in Chemical or Process engineering or equivalent
• Extensive Experience required in the following areas:
  • Process plant technical standards
  • Project concept development
  • Business case and capital approval
  • Design, Procurement and Installation
• Construction, Commissioning and Validation
• Environmental, health and safety management
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, proven ability to work at all levels in an international organization
• Change management advocative
• Proven experience delivering the design aspect of large/complex capital projects in a global and diverse environment, extensive experience in concentrate manufacturing engineering and track record of influencing a complex matrix of stakeholders to deliver a design to the highest standard
• 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 within committed budget and schedule.
• Extensive Experience required in the following areas:
  • Concentrate business
  • Multi plant exposure
  • Process plant technical standards
  • Project concept development
  • Business case and capital approval
  • Equipment Design and optimization

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 Strategic Manufacturing Solutions Engineer . However please note that the internal job title the successful candidate will have will be SC Eng Assoc Manager.