Senior Engineer - Project Management
PepsiCo•Plano, TX
•Onsite
About The Position
1NA Engineering Productivity/Sustainability & Food Safety Team is seeking a Supply Chain Engineer (L8) to manage Productivity, Sustainability and Food Safety projects. This role involves executing engineering solutions to increase Frito-Lay’s product capacity, which may include installing new manufacturing lines or modifying existing production equipment across process, packaging, warehouse, facilities, and utilities. The engineer will lead cross-functional teams, define project scope, apply engineering principles to problem-solving, and manage project budgets, timelines, and procurement.
Requirements
- BS in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Civil Engineering
- 7+ years of professional experience
- Technical curiosity with a desire to continuously learn
- Self-motivated with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, aggressive, results-oriented culture
- Ability to lead and drive an agenda to deliver results
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate well with project stakeholders including senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
Nice To Haves
- Previous Project Management in Manufacturing experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Execute engineering solutions to bring additional capacity to Frito-Lay’s portfolio of products. This can include the installation of new manufacturing lines and/or the modification of existing production equipment, including process, packaging, warehouse, facilities & utilities.
- Participate in and lead cross-functional teams of colleagues and outside resources, including plant personnel, equipment vendors, engineering and construction contractors.
- Define manufacturing and unit operation needs for project scope requirements and documentation
- Ability to independently lead medium and large projects
- Apply Engineering principles to problem solving and managing unexpected changes
- Manage costs by developing project budgets, maintaining cost tracking tools and actively controlling project costs to deliver project cost requirements. Create project funding documents.
- Demonstrate time management skills by developing project timelines, maintaining time management tools in multiple formats and actively controlling project schedules, ensuring project schedule attainment.
- Manage procurement including analyzing quotes, writing procurement documents and tracking project procurement information. This also includes developing and leveraging technical specifications and writing inspection acceptance test plans.
- Develop, manage and execute equipment installation and start-up plans while supervising outside contractors and vendors.
- Manage multiple project deliverables, accelerated timelines and competing priorities
- Adequately manage, communicate and mitigate project risks
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Disability
- Health
- Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life)
- Defined Contribution Retirement Plan
- Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 8% of annual salary paid out annually.
- Paid parental leave
- Vacation
- Sick
- Bereavement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
