Supply Chain Engineering Placement 2022

Our placement programmes are structured to give you the chance to make an impact on some of the world’s biggest brands. From day one, you’ll be working on projects that matter. You’ll shake things up, shape trends, and get guidance and development to help you discover your potential.

We’re home to some of the world’s favourite brands, such as Walkers, Pepsi Max, Quaker, Tropicana, Doritos, Pipers, Naked, Copella, Lipton, Monster Munch and 7UP to name just a few! Our business covers the full product lifecycle from creating new flavours in our labs to dreaming up ad campaigns and delivering packs to stores. There’s plenty in between too.

We build brands we are really proud of and we have a mission to create more smiles with every sip and bite. Here at PepsiCo we think like entrepreneurs. We voice opinions fearlessly. We celebrate diversity and differences. We care about growing sustainably. And we get a lot of free Doritos.

We are looking for enthusiastic undergraduates to join our Central Technical department based in Leicester on a 12 month placement programme.

Technical project delivery is critical to PepsiCo. That means our Central Technical Services Team (CTS) are at the heart of the action in our manufacturing sites and are kept busy delivering small to large scale projects across the UK. In a fast-moving manufacturing environment our CTS Execute Team is crucial to delivering technical solutions through projects which provide our sites with the ability to grow capacity whilst providing innovative solutions to reduce costs to ensure we are competitive in the Snack Food market.

Do you share our passion for technical change? If so, we could take your talents to a whole new level.

What you’ll get up to

• Lead and own allocated Capital Projects from inception through to handover ensuring key phasing of Projects are identified and worked to, with compliance to PepsiCo project management business process systems and technical/engineering standards
• Engineering Drawings / Specifications
• Financial Control / Management
• Project time-planing
• Act as Interface (“on project” point of contact) for PepsiCo plants with teams (such as design, engineering product development) in Central Technical Services to enable the execution of the Capital Projects agenda.
• Lead Project Teams as appropriate for the size of each project ensuring adequate/appropriate resource allocation
• Deliver the execution process to ensure standardised agile and rapid deployment of technical productivity & best practices
• Cross UK projects

Qualifications/Requirements

• A student currently in the second year of university studies, where the course includes the option of completing a sandwich placement during the third year, ideally within an Engineering practice such as Manufacturing/Chemical Engineering
• Disruption. An intellectual curiosity and a willingness to challenge accepted ways of doing things
• Passion. For our company, for your development, for sustainability and engineering delivery.
• Ambition. Eagerness to learn and grow your career and aspire to be our future leaders.
• Creativity. Bring your new thinking and fresh ideas to our brands.
• You! At PepsiCo we bring ourselves to work and embrace diversity and inclusion. We believe our differences is what makes us special.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• High degree of initiative and drive to deliver results of trials and activities with the ability to be pro-active and multi-task.
• Keen to gain experience of working in the Food Industry.
• Able to influence people and take people with you.
• Supportive team player with an accurate, methodical, tidy and reliable approach.
• Good communication, verbal and written.
• Computer literate (Microsoft Office)

The placement starts inJuly 2022, and will last for 12 months, with a salary of £21,000

Other benefits:

• Vibrant culture
• Development and mentoring
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holidays
• Discounted PepsiCo products
• Competitive pension scheme
• And a whole lot more…

“The opportunities that PepsiCo have offered me as part of my role have been tremendous. I have been involved in multiple projects and activities on top of my day-to-day role which keeps my placement super exciting. I have met some outstanding and friendly people who I know I will keep in touch with after my placement year. The culture here is so collaborative and supportive that I’m never afraid to ask questions or ask to learn new things.”

• Niyanee Porte

Relocation Eligible: Not Applicable

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.