End to End Specialist - Process and Packing

Overview

At PepsiCo UK, we’re proud to make some of the nation’s favourite snacks and drinks—like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. With sites across the UK, including our Quaker mill in Cupar and Doritos factory in Coventry, we’re also home to one of the world’s largest crisp factories in Leicester. At the end of 2025 we will move our UK office to vibrant new Reading town centre location, just minutes from Reading train station.

Why Join Us?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.

What you’ll be doing:
You will be responsible for all technical activities in the processing and packaging areas of Brigg Site. You will be responsible for supporting the site manufacturing team with specialist support in their area of responsibility, own the governance of the IPS programme, support on site trial activity and support site continuous improvement activities.

Responsibilities

• Working with Brigg team and external departments and agencies, build an in depth and expert understanding of the Brigg manufacturing process.
• Focusing on improving standards (target 80% of time) through QCDM framework – Identify opportunities for improvements and drive actions to correct.
• Owning the methodology to support others to “Maintain the Standard” through coaching problem-solving skills on shift.
• LSS Kaizen leader/Green belt – responsible for delivering improvement projects including productivity.
• Coaching and development of the operations team and pipeline potential future specialists.
• Ensuring training material & validation process is optimised and fit for purpose through collaboration with Trainers & MPE Execute team.
• Leading and supporting improvement projects, through the change management process, from minor changes through to Capex justification and commissioning.
• Owning and auditing of standard settings (IPS & system audits).
• Developing Continuous Improvement culture through using the QCDM framework and methodology.
• Ownership of standard work for GOs within their area of responsibility.
• Working closely with the shift leadership team to coach appropriate problem-solving tools to preventative actions.
• Working with central BU departments (such as NPD) supporting line trials, product and packaging development work and equipment improvement activities.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or of degree calibre.
• Good Technical/Process engineering knowledge with experience in Continuous improvement.
• Foundational Lean knowledge and use of lean tools.
• Ability to apply technical knowledge in a consistent, methodical way when problem solving.
• Capable of planning complex trials, data collation and analysis.
• Understanding of production systems with ability to document, track and audit information.
• Coach and facilitator with a passion for developing & training others.
• A strong role model for Safety, Quality and Food Safety behaviours.
• Flexible working style to suit the priorities and coverage of other production areas.

A Space to be You

We celebrate individuality and are committed to building an inclusive workplace. Our Employee Resource Groups help embed inclusion into our culture, ensuring everyone feels valued and heard.

Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will provide any necessary adjustments to support you through the recruitment process.

About PepsiCo

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, 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 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the centre 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 www.pepsico.com, and follow on X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.