Pepsico Vacancies

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Sales Supervisor – Pietermaritzburg DC Bread-ZAF

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

To supervise the performance and maintenance of the activities of the van sales representatives in order to achieve maximum profitability and growth in accordance with organisation plans.

Accountabilities

• Lead, drive and embed a customer focused sales culture.
• Conduct Gate Meetings before Market daily
• Focus agenda in terms of Performance MTD, Execution and Discipline KPI’s
• Effective coaching Sales staff to increase Sales capability and performance.
• In-Market coaching of Van Sales Representatives
• Ensuring 100% hit rate of outlets within route
• Individual In Market visits with customers to address specific issues
• Business development and growth of customer base
• Attend meetings as and when required
• Proactively develop and implement internal and external business development strategies to achieve business growth and increase market share.
• Pivot strategic directions and align change
• Conduct regular training sessions with training team on critical business skills
• Conduct Performance reviews

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role:

• 3 year Business / Commercial Tertiary qualification or equivalent
• 3 years working experience in FMCG environment, with 1 year in a selling role / selling experience
• Valid drivers license
• Customer relations
• Results driven
• Self starter, can work independently
• Analytical thinking and application of insights to drive volume growth
• Planning and Organizing
• Identify sales opportunities
• Infuencing
• Negotiating
• Communicate with impact
• Ability to access, analyse sales and apply insights to sales reports to drive growth

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

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Site Security Coordinator

Responsibilities

What we are looking for: We are looking for a Site Security Coordinator: Eastern Cape, who will be based at Britos Bakery. 

• As directed by the Business Unit leadership, the Global Security Director (SA) and in collaboration with the PepsiCo Office of Global Security, ensure that the premises allocated to, benefit from effective and sustainable security programs that mitigate risk to our people, assets and objectives while protecting PepsiCo Brands.
• Execute operational implementation of strategic planning as directed by Security Director – Global Security (SA) in conjunction with Area Security Manager and/or Assistant area Security Manager
• Physically located in Brittos Bakery, Eastern Cape, South Africa, the role would serve as a Business Unit asset in responding to all emerging security risks and incidents on the allocated and dedicated premises.
• Role will be responsible for the protection of our people and Assets in Eastern Cape. Three (3) Premises . FTE of  550.

Accountabilities: 

• In line with the Country broader strategy, implement the Site Security Plan to identify, assess and mitigate risks to PepsiCo’s associates, facilities, proprietary information, and brand/reputation.
• Form part of the Site Crisis ManagementTeam, with execution of security functions as part of the Business Continuity Plans of the premises.
• Ensure that the premises is compliant with the Site security plan (technological ,Procedural, Manned guarding ,Architectural )
• Maintain strong working relationships with, and provide consultation to, local management teams.
• Plan and oversee periodic security self-assessments and bi-annual security risk assessment on the premises in order to identify critical vulnerabilities and to assist in closing these risks through cost-effective, best practice security enhancements.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with national and local security, emergency response, law enforcement, and regulatory authorities as well as with security managers of other large multinational companies.
• Ensure compliance with PepsiCo EMEA Security Risk Management System and supporting standards and procedures.
• Assist in delivering security awareness for PepsiCo associates and training programs to security associates.
• Advise and assist before, during and after security incidents, including on-the-spot risk assessments and security advice to site leaders.
• Assist the Area Security Manager/Asst Area Security Manager in implementing security plans to strengthen the protection of our supply chain (Make/Move/Sell).
• Assist the Area Security Manager/Asst Area Security Manager in implementing security plans to strengthen the protection of our supply chain (Make/Move/Sell).
• Assist in Conducting and coordinate investigations to include counterfeit, extortion, contamination of our products, loss reduction, kidnapping, robberies, Speak Up, fraud, corruption, and security threats against the country’s interests and associates.
• During strike operations or labor disputes provide training to security guards and employees in strike protocols.
• Oversee security guard companies to leverage economies of scale and lower costs. Implement and manage a effective KPI management system in accordance with Sector Security, and evaluate the service provided by the 3P Security providers on a monthly basis.
• Manage the 3P Security Providers and evaluate their service on a monthly basis according to the set KPI’s.
• Ensure the continued professional development of his/her security team, to include the identification of suitable individuals in longer-term succession planning.
• Implementation of all Security Policies, Plans and Site SOP’s
• Report Incidents immediately to Line Manager and ensure compiling of reports according to Security Policies.
• To review the recording of CCTV on a daily basis to ensure that there are no irregularities.
• In conjunction with Control Room Co-ordinator provide the required evidence in the event of any security incident and support EHS on any Safety Incidents evidence if and when required

Qualifications

• Ability to work in a dynamic and rapidly expanding business environment;
• A minimum of 5 years of working experience; 3 years Security experience in private sector (preferably industrial sectors) with accountabilities and key measures listed above;
• Knowledge of best security practices, principles and objectives;
• Well-refined interpersonal skills;
• Security PSIRA ( Grade A) qualification.
• A working proficiency of written and spoken English.
• Ability to work among a team of peers.
• Ability to work in a challenging environment and to be connected 24/7.
• Excellent organizational skills to be able to prioritize responsibilities meet deadlines and work in a multi-task environment

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

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Maintenance Planner

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for: We’re looking for a Maintenance Planner Based at our Upington Dried Fruit Plant to join our team.

• Coordinate and control all planned and corrective maintenance activities across the raisin manufacturing site, ensuring seamless execution and minimal disruption to operations.
• Plan, sequence, and schedule preventative, predictive, and statutory maintenance across processing, drying, packing, and utility areas to maximise asset reliability and plant availability.
• Drive compliance with food safety standards and engineering best practices while maintaining strict cost control and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with Production, Engineering, and Stores to ensure alignment of maintenance plans with operational priorities.
• Ensure readiness of all maintenance activities by verifying work orders, labour allocation, tools, and material availability in advance.
• Maintain and govern CMMS (SAP) by ensuring accurate work order creation, execution tracking, and closure, enabling reliable data integrity.
• Capture and analyse maintenance data to support root cause analysis, performance tracking, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Produce clear and actionable reports to support decision-making, improve equipment performance, and optimise maintenance strategies.

Accountabilities: 

• Drive execution of maintenance strategies to achieve best-in-class plant reliability and availability, aligning with industry benchmarks.
• Develop and optimise maintenance work plans by implementing structured processes, incorporating root cause analysis (RCA) and lifecycle management principles.
• Design and implement equipment-specific maintenance schedules aligned with Food Safety, EHS requirements, sector best practices, and PEMM methodology.
• Monitor, analyse, and report on maintenance KPIs, trends, and the full engineering scorecard to support performance improvement.
• Contribute to maintenance budgeting by analysing historical data and applying zero-based budgeting principles to improve cost control.
• Ensure CMMS (SAP) data integrity by validating work orders, verifying artisan inputs, and maintaining strict document control standards.
• Manage and optimise the maintenance backlog, ensuring timely execution and closure of all work orders and job cards.
• Support reliability engineering initiatives by conducting and contributing to analysis such as RCA, and translating findings into actionable improvement plans.
• Train and support maintenance and production teams on maintenance procedures and effective utilisation of the CMMS system.
• Integrate maintenance plans with production schedules to minimise downtime and maximise operational efficiency.
• Lead forward planning activities (weekly, monthly, annual) for maintenance tasks, labour, and materials to ensure consistent and effective execution.
• Accurately scope and estimate maintenance work, including duration, priority, resource requirements, spares, tools, specialist services, and materials.
• Plan and coordinate contract labour to supplement internal resources and meet maintenance workload demands.
• Identify and manage critical equipment and spares through structured criticality assessments.
• Continuously review and improve maintenance strategies and tasks based on team feedback, plant changes, and evolving industry best practices.
• Maintain ≥95% SAP (CMMS) work order closure compliance by actively monitoring, managing, and driving timely completion and close-out of all maintenance job cards.

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

• Develop, update, and optimise preventive and predictive maintenance programmes across production, packing, and utilities to ensure maximum equipment reliability.
• Build and execute detailed weekly and daily maintenance plans, including Maintenance Day Plans with defined scope, resources, durations, and lockout requirements.
• Lead pre-maintenance planning meetings to align Engineering, Production, and Contractors on scope, priorities, and execution strategy.
• Plan and coordinate major shutdowns, breakdown repairs, and seasonal maintenance activities, integrating maintenance with production schedules and cleaning cycles.
• Prioritise and release work orders in SAP PM, ensuring effective response to corrective and ad hoc maintenance based on risk, safety, food safety, and operational impact.

Materials, Spares & Services Coordination

• Determine and manage spares requirements through criticality assessments, ensuring availability of critical parts, tools, and equipment.
• Coordinate external service providers and statutory inspections (e.g., boilers, lifting equipment) to ensure compliance and operational readiness.
• Accurately estimate maintenance work scope, including labour, duration, skills, spares, tools, and specialist services.
• Plan and deploy contract labour to supplement internal resources during peak workloads and shutdown periods.

Execution Readiness & Governance

• Ensure execution readiness by defining clear job scopes, safety procedures, permit requirements, LOTO compliance, and food safety controls for all work orders.
• Govern work order quality in SAP CMMS by validating job card inputs, including time confirmations, materials usage, and technical completion notes.
• Chair post-maintenance reviews to assess execution quality, identify gaps, and track deferred or incomplete work.
• Maintain ≥95% SAP (CMMS) work order closure compliance, driving discipline in timely completion and accurate system updates.

Performance, Reliability & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor and report on maintenance KPIs, Asset Care indicators, backlog, and schedule adherence to drive performance improvements.
• Analyse equipment failures and losses using RCA, methodologies, translating insights into actionable reliability improvement plans.
• Continuously improve maintenance strategies by incorporating lifecycle management principles, audit findings, and industry best practices.
• Plan and track condition monitoring activities (e.g., vibration analysis, thermography) to proactively identify and mitigate equipment risks.
• Maintain engineering documentation and asset records, including drawings, P&IDs, OEM manuals, SOPs, and equipment history for audit and traceability purposes.

Stakeholder Management & Integration

• Collaborate daily with Engineering Managers, Technicians, Production Supervisors, Stores, and external vendors to align maintenance activities with operational priorities.
• Integrate maintenance plans with production schedules to minimise downtime and maximise plant efficiency.
• Train and support teams on maintenance procedures and effective use of SAP CMMS to strengthen process adherence and data quality.

Financial & Strategic Contribution

• Support maintenance budgeting and cost control through analysis of historical data and application of zero-based budgeting principles.
• Drive best-in-class plant reliability and availability, benchmarking performance against industry standards and continuously improving maintenance effectiveness.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Certificate or Diploma Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or equivalent).
• Trade Test qualification (advantageous).
• SAP PM / CMMS certification or formal training (advantageous).

Experience

• Minimum 3–5 years’ experience in maintenance planning, maintenance coordination, or engineering maintenance within a manufacturing or FMCG environment.
• Proven experience in maintenance planning and scheduling, including preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance.
• Experience working with CMMS systems (preferably SAP PM) for work order management, planning, and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in shutdown planning, backlog management, and resource coordination.
• Exposure to food safety, EHS standards, and statutory compliance within a plant environment.
• Experience in working with automated production systems and modern plant equipment.

Technical Knowledge

• Strong understanding of:
  • Maintenance planning and scheduling principles
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies
  • Reliability concepts (MTBF, MTTR, asset care strategies)
  • Preventive and predictive maintenance techniques
  • Lifecycle asset management
• Knowledge of spares management and criticality assessments.
• Understanding of condition monitoring techniques (e.g., vibration analysis, thermography).
• Familiarity with engineering documentation (P&IDs, OEM manuals, SOPs).

Key Skills

• Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Analytical and problem-solving ability with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• High attention to detail, particularly in CMMS data integrity and reporting.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate across multiple departments.
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing operational demands.
• Leadership and influencing skills to drive maintenance discipline and compliance.

Behavioural Competencies

• Proactive and results-driven mindset.
• Strong accountability and ownership.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Strong focus on safety, food safety, and compliance.

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

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R&D WIL Learnership (Packaging)

Job Description

Overview

• Assist with trial protocols and issue to key stakeholders post alignment with R&D Technologist / R&D Manager 
• Assist with organizing and execute assigned research and development projects for SA R&D team. (Calendar Delivery) covering work streams ranging from very limited partial autonomous ownership through to transactional and hoc delivery. 
• Support the R&D Technologist across the relevant product platform to deliver low complexity projects. Specifically focused on execution of prototype to support around pilot plant trials. 
• Support the R&D technologist to execute production trials for low complexity projects and report trial results to R&D Manager utilizing the TSG methodology:
  • Define and align trial protocols which is pre-aligned with the R&D technologist.  
  • Communicate trial request with relevant stakeholders and support the setup of pre-trial meetings.  
  • Attend pilot plant and factory trials as and when needed by the R&D technologist.  

Responsibilities

Responsible for routine analytical and product quality tests.  

• Lead base product collection from the production lines for development at pilot plant level 
• Collaborate with product developers 
• Supporteffective work in the pilot plant keeping GMP andgeneral good hygiene practices in place. 
• Support R&D Tech/ New EHS representative on EHS initiatives (both local and onsite requirements- a few of which areadhoc) 
• Online training to enhance business knowledge 
• Conduct seasoning applications, ensuring in specification salt results are attained 
• Conduct following Laboratory tests:
  • Salt Analysis
  • Oil Analysis
  • Bulk Density Analysis
  • Particle Size Analysis
  • Moisture Analysis  

Other project support areas 

• Compile project timelines and communicate to relevant teams to ensure required equipment and resources are available for use 
• Execute scale-up activities within PepsiCo owned Production Plants and pre-selected Co-manufacturers by working closely with Project lead 
• Deliver concise,accurateand complete reporting on projects to Line Manager and Project Teams, with guidance on recommendations for ingredient, formulae and process conditions  
• Draft R&D technical data such as artwork specifications, processspecificationsand finished pack standards with approval from Project Manager  
• Work with Regulatory to ensure legal compliance

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification:

• Successfully completed the Theoretical part of their studies in scientific field with > 60% Average and in there last year of studies. (Biochemistry, Food Technology or Engineering)  
•  South African citizen  
•  Good technical and analytical skills, basic knowledge of statistics, ability to interpret data and distil into useful and actionable information  
•  Supportive team player with an accurate, methodical, tidy and reliable approach  
•  Excellent people skills  
•  Results driven, demonstrate an ability to persevere and provide timely and direct feedback to others  
•  High degree of self-motivation combined with good organisational and interpersonal skills  
• Eager to learn and use initiative, self-starter  
• Ability to work independently and to deal with change and increasing complexity  
• Integrity, Safeguard the Company’s designs, formulations, processes and reputation in all matters  
• Driving License will be an advantage.

Preferred Qualification:

• Ability to collaborate and communicate well within the R&D team and when needed with selected multiple business functions including SC/OPS, Commercialization and external partners (eg. CFAM, Clextral , Schaaf)  
• Effective negotiation skills to ensure equitable use of shared resources. 
• Have an up to date knowledge of technology and be able to absorb and apply this knowledge 
• Creative thinking, be able to generate creative, workable ideas within the scope of projects.  
• Results driven, demonstrate an ability to persevere. 
• Ability to be able to work independently and to deal with change and increasing complexity.  
• Self starter, self-motivating.

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R&D WIL Learnership (Snacks)

Job Description

Overview

• Assist with trial protocols and issue to key stakeholders post alignment with R&D Technologist / R&D Manager 
• Assist with organizing and execute assigned research and development projects for SA R&D team. (Calendar Delivery) covering work streams ranging from very limited partial autonomous ownership through to transactional and hoc delivery. 
• Support the R&D Technologist across the relevant product platform to deliver low complexity projects. Specifically focused on execution of prototype to support around pilot plant trials. 
• Support the R&D technologist to execute production trials for low complexity projects and report trial results to R&D Manager utilizing the TSG methodology:
  • Define and align trial protocols which is pre-aligned with the R&D technologist.  
  • Communicate trial request with relevant stakeholders and support the setup of pre-trial meetings.  
  • Attend pilot plant and factory trials as and when needed by the R&D technologist.  

Responsibilities

Responsible for routine analytical and product quality tests.  

• Lead base product collection from the production lines for development at pilot plant level 
• Collaborate with product developers 
• Supporteffective work in the pilot plant keeping GMP andgeneral good hygiene practices in place. 
• Support R&D Tech/ New EHS representative on EHS initiatives (both local and onsite requirements- a few of which areadhoc) 
• Online training to enhance business knowledge 
• Conduct seasoning applications, ensuring in specification salt results are attained 
• Conduct following Laboratory tests:
  • Salt Analysis
  • Oil Analysis
  • Bulk Density Analysis
  • Particle Size Analysis
  • Moisture Analysis  

Other project support areas 

• Compile project timelines and communicate to relevant teams to ensure required equipment and resources are available for use 
• Execute scale-up activities within PepsiCo owned Production Plants and pre-selected Co-manufacturers by working closely with Project lead 
• Deliver concise,accurateand complete reporting on projects to Line Manager and Project Teams, with guidance on recommendations for ingredient, formulae and process conditions  
• Draft R&D technical data such as artwork specifications, processspecificationsand finished pack standards with approval from Project Manager  
• Work with Regulatory to ensure legal compliance

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification:

• Successfully completed the Theoretical part of their studies in scientific field with > 60% Average and in there last year of studies. (Biochemistry, Food Technology or Engineering)  
•  South African citizen  
•  Good technical and analytical skills, basic knowledge of statistics, ability to interpret data and distil into useful and actionable information  
•  Supportive team player with an accurate, methodical, tidy and reliable approach  
•  Excellent people skills  
•  Results driven, demonstrate an ability to persevere and provide timely and direct feedback to others  
•  High degree of self-motivation combined with good organisational and interpersonal skills  
• Eager to learn and use initiative, self-starter  
• Ability to work independently and to deal with change and increasing complexity  
• Integrity, Safeguard the Company’s designs, formulations, processes and reputation in all matters  
• Driving License will be an advantage.

Preferred Qualification:

• Ability to collaborate and communicate well within the R&D team and when needed with selected multiple business functions including SC/OPS, Commercialization and external partners (eg. CFAM, Clextral , Schaaf)  
• Effective negotiation skills to ensure equitable use of shared resources. 
• Have an up to date knowledge of technology and be able to absorb and apply this knowledge 
• Creative thinking, be able to generate creative, workable ideas within the scope of projects.  
• Results driven, demonstrate an ability to persevere. 
• Ability to be able to work independently and to deal with change and increasing complexity.  
• Self starter, self-motivating.

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