Overview

Lead the successful delivery of the capital investment plan across the SRDC warehouse and additional sites within the wider logistics network, ensuring projects are executed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with business objectives. Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to define project scopes, develop engineering solutions, and progress initiatives from initial concept through capex development, approval, and full project lifecycle delivery.

The role is accountable for end to end project management, including planning, budgeting, risk management, contractor oversight, installation coordination, commissioning, and final handover. This includes ensuring all project KPIs are achieved, operational stakeholders receive solutions that meet their requirements, and all acceptance criteria - technical, financial, and operational are fully signed off.

Why Join Us?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, 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.

Responsibilities

• Full ownership of projects from inception, CAPEX submission through to completion.
• Ownership of financial control for responsible projects.
• Ensuring all legal checks / documents / systems are in place.
• Ensure post project reviews are undertaken - build lessons learnt into project process
• Ensure all site capital projects adhere to relevant PIUK standards & systems, adopt the PepsiCo best practice for early equipment management.
• Project risk analysis and contingency planning.
• Financial / operational and performance delivery / handover.
• Lead and support project initiators in developing scoping documents.
• Lead tender groups / presentations making recommendations on suppliers.
• Managing site comms and engagement of front line for project delivery.

Key Measures:

• Adherence to project milestones and OTIF delivery, VSU (Vertical start up) will be a key element.
• Capex spend management (both capital and expense) to agreed budget and timelines.
• Financial forecasty accuracy for Capital and Expense expenditure.
• Project compliance to required safety systems.
• Quality impact of any projects e.g. food safe design, food safety incidents due to project implementation

Qualifications

Essential:

• Strong technical or engineering background is essential
• High level of computer literacy, including proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Access).
• Experience using CAD software (preferred but not essential).
• Able to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and technical documents.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, dynamic, and continuously evolving environment.
• Skilled in contractor management, coordination of multidisciplinary teams, and oversight of on-site activities.
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and manage issues proactively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to influence decision-making, facilitate meetings, and provide clear direction.
• Familiarity with Health & Safety requirements, including permit to work systems, risk assessments, and safe systems of work (e.g., ATC/ATO).

Preffered but not essential:

• Experience managing small (<£100k) to medium-scale (up to £1m) capital projects, from concept through to delivery and close-out.
• Experience working with CAPEX processes, including cost estimation, budgeting, forecasting, and financial governance.

A Space to be You

We celebrate individuality and are committed to building an inclusive workplace. Our Employee Resource Groups help embed inclusion into our culture, ensuring everyone feels valued and heard.

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.