Control Systems Specialist - Skelmersdale, United Kingdom - PepsiCo

PepsiCo

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Skelmersdale, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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 $86 billion in net revenue in 2022.

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.

Manage the site's manufacturing network, Industrial communication and automated systems. Be the custodian for control system standards, execute improvements to the plant control systems through Management of Change Process. Support 'Design' and 'Execution' teams for capital project delivery. Provide Technical Leadership to the Engineering support team and build controls knowledge and capability into the shift teams.

Responsibilities:

Effective Management of the factory PLC, SCADA and IT Network systems, ensuring targets for availability and data integrity are met, compliance to business standards and audits are maintained.
Manage and implement support contracts and system upgrades to maintain the value and concurrency of the systems.
Ensure use of a change control process for all control systems on site including Control System Documentation (URS, FDS, SDS, FST, SAT).
Support Operations departments, R&D and Group Engineering with performance analysis data and reports.
Identify opportunities for improved control and production information, generating clear action plans and benefits.
Support the Front-Line teams on technical breakdowns.
Improve capability for System/Shift technicians on all aspects of the computer control systems.

Qualifications:

Electrical Engineer qualified to minimum of HNC with knowledge and experience of electrical control panels, instrumentation system, control system architecture, Industrial Networks and machine automation.
Excellent working knowledge and experience of SCADA systems, PLC's and industrial networks.
Able to demonstrate basic skills in highlevel language programming.
Excellent faultfinding skills.
Strong knowledge and experience of process and packaging system/machine technologies.
Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate across multiple customer base and functions.
Experienced coach and able to build capability in Shift Engineering teams in fault analysis, root cause failure analysis and rectification, and higherlevel systems fault recovery.
Excellent planning and Organisational skills.
Excellent influencing, presentation, communication and decisionmaking skills.
Experienced in providing Technical Installation and Commissioning support.