Maintenance Planner in Newburgh

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, 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.

Maintenance Planner plans all tasks associated with shutdowns by collaborating with Operations and Maintenance. Responsible for delivering an effective plan for each planned shutdown continuously improving reliability, AIB, reducing labour costs and driving efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Driving effective scheduling to implement asset care, achieving greater than target KPI's on monthly scorecard.
• Collaborating daily with Operations to allow targets to be maintained via QCDM (Quality Control Delivery & Morale) meetings.
• Reviewing work order/requests and prioritising through effective collaboration with Maintenance Team and Operation Teams.
• Support Improvement Teams, scheduling Failure Analysis work orders as required from the Teams feedback.
• Ensure weekly scorecards are produced and fed back to teams, supplying labour utilisation information, maintaining SAP, using Data standards, preparing ad-hoc reports, entering and modifying tasks and instructions as required.
• Maintaining SAP data including new equipment and associated asset care regimes.
• Take an active role in supporting the site on actions and taking ownership on agreed issues relating to internal audits such as PEMM, BRC and AIB.

Qualifications:

• Ability to work in a changing environment generating ideas and solutions.
• Attention to detail and ability to prioritise workload.
• 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.
• Skills in influencing others with the ability to negotiate.
• Computer skills, Excel, Word and capability to operate SAP.
• Must demonstrate assertiveness and confidence to take an active part in meetings with fellow employees and external contractors at all levels.
• Knowledge of the system equipment.
• Daily contact with peers and other employees at all levels.
• Having a basic knowledge of system flow streams and how items of equipment can affect system efficiency and pallet quality.
• Having a personality to accommodate snap shot changes in production/equipment demands.

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.

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.