PepsiCo
Laboratory Technician (12-months secondment)
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Overview
Why Join Us?
We offer a competitive salary, bonus, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.
The main purpose of this role
To provide the Quality and Food Safety Governance on shift.
Ensuring a fully functioning laboratory on shift
That delivers the testing compliance required to maintain good quality, safe food right first time.
Responsibilities
- Shiftly calibration of all analytical equipment (lab & factory)
- Identifying trends in the faults being seen and taking appropriate action to resolve.
- Training of the LGO and LGSOs on analytical methods, SOPs and SWPs relevant to lab.
- Validation and proficiency testing
- Scoping and raising of the hold & release process on shift
- Approval of on shift Quality & Food Safety Checks
- Cleaning verification and sign off post sanitation activities
- Conducting lab tests for Finished Product compliance
Tasks:
- 80% utilised by Standard Lab tasks (Oil / Salts / Moisture checks)
- Ensuring FL710/S9 weekly/monthly proficiency checks are completed
- Troubleshoot basic instrument malfunctions or escalate where necessary
- Support with weekly/monthly instrument proficiency checks in the absence of the Laboratory Specialist and pipeline
- Take ownership of CQA sample analysis
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20% utilised Quality Control activities:
- Final Cleaning Check
- Scope and Raising of Holds
- On shift QCFS check approvals
- Troubleshooting / Support where required
Qualifications
Key experience and skills:
- Post-A-Level qualification (BSc; Btech or Food Tech) or > experience working in a WSF quality or Lab role.
- Experience in training including delivering and facilitating training packages
- Experience in a manufacturing environment
- Background in Food Quality & Food Safety Standards
- Qualification in Food Quality/Hygiene (desirable but not mandatory)
- Excellent IT skills
- Leadership skills
- Strong Team worker and contributor.
- Flexible, ‘can do,’ attitude to role and duties.
- Results driven and understands the link between action/results, inputs/outputs.
- Ability to influence others
- Able to prioritise workloads
Why Join Us?
We offer a competitive salary, bonus, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.
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Equal Opportunities
We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will provide any necessary adjustments to support you through the recruitment process.
About PepsiCo
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com, and follow on X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.
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