Maintenance Technician

at  PepsiCo

Overview:
We are the concentrate team 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, sourcing ingredients to manufacture more than 1,200 recipes for our brands. We are a global organisation, situated in 16 locations across 9 countries offering careers in various functions from Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Finance, 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.
PepsiCo Carrigaline are hiring for a Maintenance Technician on a temporary basis.

Responsibilities:

• Carry out all work safely, cost effectively and to the highest GMP standards.
• Timely and effective troubleshooting and repair of day-to-day equipment and systems issues.
• Work with cross functional teams to diagnose causes of system, equipment, or material failures.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis events.
• Support all teams in meeting the plants KPI targets.
• Drive/Support all LOTO activities as required.
• Provide technical support to project teams to ensure technical best practice solutions.
• Partner in Quality, Cost and Service initiatives to drive performance improvement.
• Recommend process or system modifications.
• Assist in diagnosing and finding the answers to technical problems.
• Maximize equipment and plant availability through the root cause identification and subsequent elimination of problems/defects.
• Implement ideas to improve efficiency and effectiveness in both energy usage and of plant/production equipment performance.
• Demonstrate technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive in delivering results in a production environment.
• Innovative approach to problem solving.
• Committed to cGMP with a good understanding of business processes/drivers.
• Maintenance of the following systems on site: automated storage, transfer, handling/sanitizing and processing of bulk liquids and powders. Automated liquid and powder process and filling equipment including robotics, labelling, check-weighing, stretch-wrapping etc.
• Establish and execute best-in-class practices and participate and support the maintenance continuous improvement program on site.
• Working with multiple internal & external stakeholders, primarily Engineering, EHS, Quality & other Global Teams Maintain and support the latest automation technologies – PLC & In-Batch.

Qualifications:

• Carry out all work safely, cost effectively and to the highest GMP standards.
• Timely and effective troubleshooting and repair of day-to-day equipment and systems issues.
• Work with cross functional teams to diagnose causes of system, equipment, or material failures.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis events.
• Support all teams in meeting the plants KPI targets.
• Drive/Support all LOTO activities as required.
• Provide technical support to project teams to ensure technical best practice solutions.
• Partner in Quality, Cost and Service initiatives to drive performance improvement.
• Recommend process or system modifications.
• Assist in diagnosing and finding the answers to technical problems.
• Maximize equipment and plant availability through the root cause identification and subsequent elimination of problems/defects.
• Implement ideas to improve efficiency and effectiveness in both energy usage and of plant/production equipment performance.
• Demonstrate technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive in delivering results in a production environment.
• Innovative approach to problem solving.
• Committed to cGMP with a good understanding of business processes/drivers.
• Maintenance of the following systems on site: automated storage, transfer, handling/sanitizing and processing of bulk liquids and powders. Automated liquid and powder process and filling equipment including robotics, labelling, check-weighing, stretch-wrapping etc.
• Establish and execute best-in-class practices and participate and support the maintenance continuous improvement program on site.
• Working with multiple internal & external stakeholders, primarily Engineering, EHS, Quality & other Global Teams Maintain and support the latest automation technologies – PLC & In-Batch