Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

Our factory in Coventry is one of our biggest snacks manufacturing site in the UK, and home of Doritos! It is a multi-technology plant with significant automation and is home to around 650 of our team. Our Coventry site is a fast paced and ever changing environment, we can go from idea to implementation in a matter of days. You will be inspired by the drive of your team and feel a true sense of connection and comradery with your colleagues who are proud to work at Coventry

Responsibilities

What you'll get up to

• Develop and execute annual safety strategy and targets for site. Business partner Operations Managers and Senior Management Team to ensure effective delivery of EHS plan, to develop sustainable EHS focused culture.
• Manage site HSE management system, to ensure compliance to PepsiCo Global standards, including internal and external audit requirements and Standard Owner capability. Ensure PepsiCo Global Core Environmental, Health and safety management standards and technical safety standards are adopted, implemented, sustained according to HSE management system requirements
• Provide support and coaching to functional teams (Operations & Engineering) to ensure compliance to current legislation and reinforcement of site standards.
• Critical role in change management projects to ensure safe execution of all change and risk reduction is included in all project development plans.
• Drive a safety culture through effective communications and continuous improvement. Lead by example in embedding a culture of outstanding communication and achievement, taking opportunities to coach and develop teams across departments and shifts
• Management of site EHS team and overall responsibility for site’s EHS competence development. Develop and deliver appropriate EHS functional and cultural development training including behavioural safety, technical risk assessment and environmental procedures.
• Responsibility for supporting the UK Health and Safety and Environmental team meetings, creating policy and devising the tactical steps required to achieve UK’s targets.

Qualifications

What we're looking for

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, critical Illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We’re also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.

We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

A space to be y( )u

We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That’s why we’ve empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) ask our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital / civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.

To enable you to be at your best we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need.