Technician in Leicester

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.

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Main Purpose: Carry out regular weekly tests & inspections to site Fire Alarm & Sprinkler System, ensure all paper work is kept up to date to ensure site legal compliance.

Salary: £34,230 / 42 hours a week

Responsibilities:

• Carry out maintenance inspection & repairs to the building facilities on site;
• Carry out functional inspections of all site services (SRDC & Tollwell Road) such as Compressors, Racking, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems, Sprinkler systems, Fire detection systems.
• Reporting to the Facilities on a day-to-day basis; who reports to the Site Engineering Manager.
• Ensure all servicing is carried out to site service equipment, both internally & by external companies.
• Manage day to day activities & Control permit to work for external contractors who carry out services to site Facilities & Services.
• Support with the design & justification for Capital Investment for site services.
• Carry out energy monitoring of key site service equipment flag any high usages & plan to remedy to issues.

Decision making authority:

• Ensure all documents are filed & up to date for all site services, flag any issues raised from service visits.
• Owner of day to day plan for site service repairs.
• Use own initiative to try & resolve issues with Site Services without reference to line manager.
• Raise issues that are not straight forward or will affect plant efficiency direct to Facilities Manager.
• Highlight to Facilities Manager any issues with contractors; ensure contractors carry out correct work as per order.
• Daily contact with Facilities Manager to review work plan but the person is expected to work off their own initiative majority of the time.

Qualifications:

• Qualifications and/or knowledge and experience of maintaining Facilities equipment and services.
• Highly numerate, with analytical thinking.
• RCA / analytical problem solving skills or equivalent.
• RCM / FMEA knowledge or formal qualification.
• Excellent organisational skills – ability to handle multiple work streams.
• Computer literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP).
• Track record in coaching and strong influencing skills to achieve commitment to planning/reliability agenda.
• Decision making and communication abilities, demonstrated at all levels.
• Must demonstrate assertiveness and confidence to take an active part in meetings with fellow employees and external contractors at all levels particularly QCDM meetings.
• Highly motivated and a strong team player with good people skills, having effective written and verbal communication skills across a range of contacts, both within the organisation and beyond.
• Willingness to complete continuing professional development courses with an engineering biased to further potentially progress within the engineering department.