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R&D Process Engineering Technologist

🏢 PepsiCo • 📍 Leicester, England • 🕒 6 days ago

Salary Range

£61,837 - £76,304

£5,153 - £6,359 / mo

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Location Base

Leicester, England

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

Overview:

PepsiCo is currently recruiting for R&D Process Engineering Technologist to join in Leicester, UK.

Job Purpose

You will work effectively with cross-functional & R&D partners to deliver the Process Development aspects of multiple innovation & PTBS projects across all West Europe Foods through leveraging technical process knowledge, applying business processes & creating innovative solutions.

Responsibilities:

Project Management - plan, organise, execute and communicate assigned projects or project components under guidance of line manager whilst maintaining a high level of confidentiality and integrity.
Data driven product design - Demonstrated application of consumer & analytical data to ensure excellent product launches through creation of quality technical process specifications.
Build & maintain technical process knowledge of WE production process capabilities (both internal & external) to enable efficient innovation/productivity realisation by providing functional scale-up expertise and technical leadership on specific process development work streams
Develop robust predictive scale-up models on pilot/lab scale that accurately identify key process variables that define the desired product transformations and final quality, and validate through experimental trials at pilot and full production scale.
Contribute to workstreams to improve ways of working across the team e.g. improvement of business processes to drive greater efficiencies, sharing of knowledge to create better team cohesion & developing others through coaching & embedding best practise.

Qualifications:

Functional experience:

Graduate in a Chemical Engineering, Food Processing or Mechanical Engineering (with proven food bias)
Previous experience in FMCG environment (required) with experience of Food Safety standards (preferred)
Great technical & analytical skills, ability to interpret data and distil into useful and actionable information
Good communicator able to communicate effectively across multiple business functions (R&D, Operations, Marketing..)
Attention to detail demonstrated thoroughness and accuracy on technical documentation
Self starter, self motivated, demonstrates ability to work independently demonstrating perseverance to achieve goals
Ability to analyse complex problems to find actionable pragmatic solutions and constructive action plan