Technical Manager

Overview:
**Work for a global FMCG company with some of the world’s most trusted and iconic brands.**

**Be part of an exciting business where employees are recognised and career growth is supported.**

With a large portfolio of food and beverage brands, PepsiCo Australia & New Zealand employs more than 1500 people across ANZ at Smiths Snack Food Company, Bluebird Foods NZ and PepsiCo Beverages. With global brands like Doritos, Gatorade, and Pepsi Max, we also make some home-grown favourites such as Smith’s Chips, Red Rock Deli, Twisties, and our Bluebird NZ snack brands. PepsiCo was recognised as a Top Employer in both Australia and New Zealand in 2021, one of only 16 organisations globally to earn this certification.

PepsiCo has been recognised as an Employer of Choice for gender equality for the past 9 years and is one of the leading organisations in this space. We also believe in our sustainability strategy, that there is an opportunity to change how the world distributes, consumes, and disposes of food and beverages and we aim to use our scale, reach, and expertise to help build a more sustainable food system that can still meet human needs for enjoyment and continue to drive our economic and social development.

To continue our success, we are looking for an experienced
**Technical/Engineering Maintenance Manager** to join our team based at
**Regency Park** to manage all site engineering functions including maintenance planning and delivery, ongoing CMMS development, projects, stores, inventory control, budgets and related functions. You will also plan and implement initiatives which increase plant availability and capability and support site cost, quality, safety, environmental and service objectives, as well as support national engineering-related plans and projects by working collaboratively with the National Engineering and Packaging team.

**Responsibilities**:

- Increase plant uptime, namely TE & NE
- Continuously improve plant capability
- Support achievement of site scorecard objectives
- Lead and manage capital expenditure projects
- Control expenses within AOP
- As a control owner, it’s the responsibility to keep the test scripts updates and execute the control as designed, all failures to be remediated timely and updated to Sub process owner for any change in the process.
- Lead planned maintenance strategy
- Provide technical support
- Manage support staff and trades employees
- Develop positive working relationships with Manufacturing and other functions
- Ensure compliance with government, statutory and licensing requirements
- Actively contribute to the development of safe plant, equipment, and work practices
- Demonstrate and exercise a commitment to promote, develop and improve the health, safety, and welfare of our people.
- Reduce the value and number of Spare Parts SKU’s to acceptable levels.

Qualifications:

- Engineering degree, preferably in an electrical or mechanical discipline
- Strong analytical, interpersonal, and planning skills
- 10 years’ experience in relevant engineering roles, preferably in an FMCG industry
- Well-developed people leadership, change management and team-building skills
- Proven ability to set and gain commitment to targets and deadlines
- Well-developed PC skills, desirably with exposure to SAP
- Knowledge of modern safety management principles
- Exposure to high-speed packaging equipment and/or comparable processing technology

**What we can offer you**:

- Retail and service discounts through our online programs
- Great salary package + benefits
- Site Leadership Opportunity
- Health initiatives through our Health and Wellness programs
- Personal and professional growth opportunities through Learning Offerings online

We are a progressive and people-focused business, and believe our diverse workforce is the key to our success. Because we value our employees and their families, we offer an agile and flexible working environment with an emphasis on work life balance and health, as well as plenty of learning opportunities and room to grow your career.

Your positive attitude will be rewarded with excellent long term local and global career opportunities, and ongoing professional development along with a fun and rewarding working environment.

You will be a key part of a dynamic team and a valuable contributor to a global company that is one of the FMCG market leaders. At PepsiCo, we recognise our people as a key part of our business and career progression within the business is encouraged and supported.

We are committed to recruiting, training, and retaining high quality people.

Interested? Know someone who might be? This is a great opportunity to join the PepsiCo ANZ team.

PEPSICO’S hiring process:

- Interview(s) and skills evaluation
- Online Assessment process
- Reference and background checks

**At PepsiCo, we believe what makes you unique, makes us better. We embrace equal opportunities for all employees. We believe that our pe