Maintenance Supervisor

Overview

PepsiCo is on the look-out for a Maintenance Shift Associate Supervisor to join our Maintenance function based in Little Island, for a one-year fixed-purpose opportunity.

 

 

The main objectives of the role are to ensure that the maintenance program and strategies are delivered across the Little Island site. The shift team lead is responsible for ensuring machinery used to produce our concentrate products run to their maximum efficiency and output. This includes total preventative maintenance, managing breakdowns of mechanical, electrical, and robotic equipment (including software programming) across 24/5 operation with some systems running 24/7.

Responsibilities

 

• The maintenance shift team lead will coordinate the day to day reactive, preventive maintenance and statutory compliance schedules across shifts.
• Lead the Maintenance Shift Team in the repair of day-to-day equipment and system issues to minimise downtime. Support the Maintenance continuous improvement culture through team participation in various initiatives across the technical function.
• The maintenance shift team lead will organise the reactive, preventive maintenance and statutory compliance schedules for plant equipment and facilities across the Little Island site.
• Co-ordinating the frontline craft shift team on repair and maintenance of facilities and plant equipment across the site, including various contractors/ vendors. This includes review of method statements, risk assessments, LOTO and issuing of work permits and review and signoff of service reports etc.
• Liaise with production on machine uptime and availability of equipment and drive machine performance through data review and performance metrics of the Maintenance teams across each shift.
• Lead the Maintenance team in implementing the plant preventive maintenance schedule and ensure preventative maintenance system is kept up to date based on functional KPI’s. Provide leadership and supervision to the Maintenance team in the maintenance, repair, modification and continuous improvement, project support, installation and testing of all types of plant equipment and automation systems. Plan out and assign work. This will involve delegation of assigned work task to individual craft members and ensuring timely completion of same.
• Provide technical support to each function on day-to-day activities and across shift, manage and process high volume of calls and request.
• Support the maintenance department in problem solving, root cause investigation and major breakdown reports, reliability centred maintenance, update shift handover to reflect daily issues/challenges. Developing robust detailed handover reports at the end of shift and lease with incoming shift on key priorities and watchouts.
• Support project & equipment handover, ensure all new equipment is added to CMMS and all maintenance work tasks are developed as per recommendation (site requirements, vendor recommendations etc).
• Support daily/weekly shift meetings and other site initiatives across 24/5 operation.
• Adhere to all the H&S and Quality requirements in site by actively leading the team in the sites drive to Health and Safety Excellence and culture-based system journey.
• Ensure delivery of the maintenance weekly plan and compliance to the global monthly Maintenance KPI’s.

Qualifications

• Min 3 years technical experience in a manufacturing environment with significant people management of frontline unionized employees.
• Ability to track and manage ordering of supplies, services and spare parts.
• Solid understanding and experience of Plant and facilities technologies.
• Computer skills required include MS Office/ Excel/ PowerPoint/MS Teams.
• Ability to analyse service reports and statutory compliance requirements and manage multiple priorities in a timely manner, with precise attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
• Observe HSE regulations, encourages safe working practices and assist in compliance reviews, general risk assessments and other safety assessments to support Health, Safety and Environmental management.
• PLC & SCADA control system are beneficial 
• Fire Alarm and fire protection system are beneficial
• Air handling & HVAC system are beneficial 
• Boiler and compressed air systems are beneficial 
• Demonstrated experience working with computerized maintenance management systems (SAP PM) is beneficial

 

Who we are:

• We are a Manufacturing Unit in PepsiCo, sourcing ingredients to manufacture more than 1,200 recipes for PepsiCo’s mega brands including Gatorade, 7Up and Pepsi.
• We are a global organization offering careers in various functions from Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Finance, R&D, HR and IT.
• We are passionate about creating and delivering much-loved household brands to markets across the world.

 

PepsiCo, opportunity is for everyone.

• Recognised as a Great Place to Work in Ireland, PepsiCo fosters a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion with acceptance and respect for all employees.
• ‘A space to be you’ is our initiative that creates a collaborative, equitable and inclusive space where everyone, regardless of what we look like, where we come from or who we love, has a voice.
• PepsiCo is a supportive work environment that provides a sense of community for employees. We work with our employees to ensure they have reasonable accommodations they need to be at their best.
• pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) is a core strategy of PepsiCo, placing sustainability at the centre of our business to have a positive impact on the planet and people. 

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