IWS UK Maintenance Lead (18 Month FTC)

IWS UK Maintenance Lead (18 Month FTC)

Posted Today by PepsiCo

Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Summary: The IWS UK Maintenance Lead will oversee the deployment of Integrated Work System (IWS) initiatives across PepsiCo's manufacturing sites in the UK, focusing on loss elimination and capability building. This role requires strong leadership and coaching skills to guide site management and teams through the IWS transformation process. The position is primarily remote but includes two assignments in Skelmersdale and Coventry. The successful candidate will be instrumental in ensuring that sites are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to achieve compelling business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Drive and own Run-to-Target (RTT) deployment across UK sites.
  • Ensure sites have the necessary knowledge and skills for effective IWS implementation.
  • Coach site leadership teams on IWS processes and loss elimination techniques.
  • Participate in assessments to provide objective evaluations of IWS implementation.
  • Network with other business units and internal consultants for information sharing.
  • Support and coach Maintenance Leads during RTT deployment.
  • Evaluate candidate readiness for certification post RTT.
  • Develop capability in leadership teams and site IWS managers.

Key Skills:

  • Strong experience in a manufacturing environment utilizing IWS.
  • Ability to influence site managers and leadership teams.
  • Experience in maintenance team leadership and improvement metrics (MTBF/MTTR).
  • Excellent coaching and teaching abilities.
  • Commitment to self-development and skill enhancement.
  • Operational experience relevant to the current phase of site operations.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Experience in team leadership and coaching in a matrix environment.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Coventry

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Overview Join the world of PepsiCo Supply Chain supporting our fast paced manufacturing environment. With responsibility to lead the IWS Deployment and site level capability builds, you will play a key role in delivering our IWS Cultural transformation! This is a remote position but will require two 3-months-long assignments in Skelmersdale and Coventry.

Main Accountability To drive and own Run-to-Target (RTT) deployment across the sites in the UK by:

  • Ensure sites are not constrained due to the lack of knowledge.
  • Ensure the proper level of skills and qualifications at the sites.
  • Successfully deploy the loss elimination skill needed for the compelling business need (CBN).
  • Provide site leadership with a calibrated assessment of the integrated work system (IWS) implementation from a point of view of total integration of the Pillars.
  • Provide direct coaching to site leadership teams so they know what the next step is, why it is important, and how to achieve the next step.
  • Promote reapplication of approaches and techniques across the UK while ensuring the tools are being used according to the standard
  • Ensure IWS work is loss focused and targeted to delivering the CBN.

Responsibilities Role & Responsibilities: Enable the deployment and execution of IWS across the UK by Deploying the initial RTT workstreams and building key Capability in the new site Maintenance Lead (ML) roles and supporting/coaching them post initial training: This is done by:

  • Ensure integrated work system (IWS) activities have a connection to loss elimination that will deliver the required compelling business need (CBN) results.
  • Coach IWS technologies and approaches in all Pillars and in on-the-floor activities.
  • Be the assessor of the integrated activity implementation and the standards calibrator with the leadership team.
  • Participate in all phase assessments to provide a calibrated and objective view.
  • Capture and disseminate current best practices worthy of reapplication.
  • Establish a contract with the site manager and the site IWS manager.
  • Develop capability in leadership teams and in the site IWS manager.
  • Diagnose activities and identify technical know-how and organization behaviors that are barriers to implementation.
  • Provide feedback to leadership teams in such a way that it causes them to act.
  • Network with other business units (BUs) and external organizations for information-sharing purposes.
  • Share and receive learnings with and from other internal consultants (ICs) to foster global skill development.
  • Spend time on skill self-development.

The Maintenance Lead also needs to be able to Lead by example and stand toe to toe with the current site Engineering managers throughput the deployment of the RTT. They also need to:

  • Support the Line Lead through the deployment
  • Coach the site Engineering and Maintenance leads through the RTT and on the overall SPARK deployment
  • Set clear direction and ‘tone’ for the deployment during the 16 week RTT
  • Work with UK IWS Manager on their capability and feedback/question any issues that arise during the RTT directly with the UK IWS Team
  • Evaluate and feedback on the Capability builds and the candidate readiness for certification post RTT
  • Be a Matrix Leader to the Site Line Leads post the RTT for any support required once they are deploying independently

Qualifications What we’re looking for:

  • Strong experience in a manufacturing environment that uses IWS
  • Ability to influence site managers, site leadership teams, and directors as required
  • Led/Supported a maintenance team with an understanding of improvement (MTBF/MTTR etc)
  • Ability to teach, coach, and develop others
  • Can help others see and implement the organization’s vision
  • Personally committed to the self-development required of the role
  • On site at varying locations for each of the RTT 16 week deployments
  • Has operation experience and the skill of the phase where the site/facility is currently operating
  • Has held a maintenance/technical leadership role in manufacturing
  • Able to work across the UK at other sites for the duration of the RTT role out
  • Shop Floor Credibility is important
  • Active Listener
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Experience of sourcing, managing and administering a portfolio of programmes
  • Ability to work proactively, collaboratively and effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
  • Experience of team leadership and coaching in a matrix