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 more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, 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 PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.

In South Africa (SA), you will find our products across the region at breakfast, lunch, or dinner. At the gym or on the field. In the office or on the go. We refresh, restore, and rejuvenate our consumers all day, every day with our key brands including Simba, Lay's, Liqui Fruit and Bokomo range of cereals. PepsiCo SA employs more than 13, 000 people across our three business divisions: Bakeries, Grains, Foods, Fruit, Snacks, Juice & Beverages. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.

What we're looking for: We're looking for a Specialist Artisan based at Ceres Beverage Plant. Successful incumbent will primarily to ensure that all plant equipment is functioning or operating at high levels of reliability and are maintained periodically as scheduled and all breakdowns are resolved soonest in order to ensure maximum plant availability as well as ensuring that the factory meets its key KPIs and supply the market with Pepsico products which include but are not limited to volume and quality compliance, costs and downtime reduction. Ability to coach operator, provide innovation for cost savings and be accountable for MPS, SA on respective production lines.

Maintain the machine to reach high reliability, safety and quality standard

• Daily routine maintenance with high quality standard
• Monitors equipment and machinery performance and ensures consistency in delivering plant availability
• Spare parts management and schedule compliance
• Follow applicable safety and quality compliance requiremets as PepSico policy
• Identify and control risks related workplace and machinery safety
• Follow planning and scheduling routine and manage work orders in
• Understand concept of losses and how to priorytise their activities
• Establishes whether the equipment breakdown is related to a missed planned maintenance or part failure or human interference
• Uses any of the problem (finding and) solving techniques like 5-Whys, RCA, decision trees etc to pin point the real problem behind failures/breakdowns
• Uses electrical and mechanical knowledge to troubleshoot and tests all equipment .
• Completes job card in consultation with the maintenance planner and requisitions parts depending on the outcome of the above.

Conducts preventative maintenance

• Performs defined and/or ad hoc electrical and equipment testing
• Corrects electrical systems and equipment malfunctions through testing, adjusting, sequencing, synchronizing and aligns such systems and equipment as AC and DC power supplies, main power control panels, motors, generators, circuit breakers and relay panels.
• Dismantles electrical machinery and replaces defective electrical or mechanical parts such as gears, brushes, and armatures.
• Verify and execute preventive maintenance standards on all electrical distribution equipment.
• Completes documentation relating to work done for future reference in the event of failures
• Continuous reference to equipment drawings, engineering standards and GMPs in the performance and closing out of jobs done.
• Detects defect and malfunctions with machinery and repairs the same.
• Performs electrical preventative maintenance inspections and repairs on a variety of electrical equipment.

Planned Maintenance

• Ensures that scheduled maintenance of all machinery and equipment is conducted or executed
• Complies with all defined equipment safety protocols and compliance to GMPs
• Completes job cards and parts requisition documents timeously to improve on mean time to repair thus ensuring high plant availability when planned maintence has been completed
• Refurbishes machinery and replacing parts to optimize output.
• Maintenance best practices, and make sure the work is done as per OEM recommendations

Plant Breakdowns

• Attends to all electrical and mechanical plant breakdowns and will conduct the diagnosis as stated under point 1 above.
• Obtains feedback from plant personnel on the efficiencies and performance delivery of machinery.
• Clearly dermacates workstation in accordance with procedures in the event of major work to minimise disruptions and possible injuries as a result of human traffic and area being used as thoroughfare.
• Assembles machinery of a unit and ensures proper functioning
• Adhers to AIB and relevant food safety programes and environmental protocols.
• Completes documentation of work done and close out on ad hoc call outs
• Updates parts/spares records in conjuction with the stores

• Placing orders requests for replacement spares from Stores.
• Complying with all safety measures outlined by the company for all work processes.

Administration and Document Competion

• Maintaining a record of all the maintenance work that has been conducted on the machinery.
• Complete daily shift reports.
• Performing shift duties in line with operational requirements.
• Coach and develop operators.

• Trade tested as a Millwright (Mechanical/Electrical)
• 5 years post-apprenticeship experience in FMCG environment with at least 3 years working in beverage bottling.
• Experience working canning, glass, PET and BIB berage production lines
• Training on Krones, Molenaar, KHS , Acepak and Angelus [referable
• Good knowledge of automated and hi-tech systems
• Ability to work with a diverse workforce

“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act."