Global Operational Technology Engineer

Overview

PepsiCo is on the look-out for a Global Operational Technology Engineer to join our global engineering function.

We are the concentrate business in PepsiCo (PGCS) working across the Beverage, Nutrition and Snacks categories to deliver concentrate for many of PepsiCo’s mega brands including Gatorade, 7Up and Pepsi. We are at the heart of PepsiCo products consumed everywhere in the world, spanning globally sourcing ingredients to manufacturing and distributing across the globe PGCS is a multi-functional business unit offering careers in various functions from Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Finance, Tax, Customs & Trade, R&D, HR and IT. We want team members who can collaborate in our fast-paced global organisation and are passionate about creating and delivering much-loved household brands to markets across the world.

The Technical Function is our team of enabling experts offering knowledge and partnership to functions on specialist subjects including engineering, quality and productivity. They ensure operations and food safety excellence for our team. Could you bring a new dimension to our technical expertise? If so we could take your talents to a whole new level.

This role is a global role based in Cork, reporting to the Global Operational Technology Lead, this is a central engineering role.

Responsibilities

This role will support the delivery, integration and sustainment of Operational Technology systems across PGCS sites globally, with a strong focus on AVEVA-based platforms and MES-enabled manufacturing. The position plays a key role in ensuring reliable data exchange between automation and enterprise layers while driving standardisation, cybersecurity compliance and long-term supportability of OT solutions.Key responsibilities include:

• Support the delivery of MES batching projects from an automation and OT integration perspective.
• Ensure Digital Factory initiatives have the required automation data points, connectivity and contextualisation to enable reliable MES ↔ Automation communication.
• Configure, deploy and sustain AVEVA System Platform, OMI, InTouch and InBatch solutions across multiple sites.
• Develop and maintain integration mechanisms between PLCs, System Platform and MES layers, including SQL-based data handling and validation.
• Support global migration, standardisation and template strategy for AVEVA System Platform implementations.
• Work closely with system integrators and vendors to ensure solutions align with PGCS OT standards and cybersecurity requirements.
• Provide technical governance to ensure projects comply with PepsiCo automation specifications, GAMP principles and industry best practice.
• Contribute to OT cybersecurity readiness, including secure architecture, patching strategies and access control alignment with corporate standards.
• Support incident management, troubleshooting and lifecycle sustainment of OT platforms across global sites.
• Assist in developing and maintaining OT standards, documentation and approved design patterns.
• Deliver knowledge transfer and technical training to site teams to ensure successful operational handover.
• Engage collaboratively with global stakeholders across Engineering, IT, Digital Factory and Supply Chain functions.

Standardisation & Training

• Ensure all OT implementations follow PGCS global automation standards and approved design frameworks.
• Drive consistency in System Platform configuration, deployment models and integration approaches across sites.
• Provide technical training and mentoring to site engineering teams to support adoption and sustainment of deployed solutions.
• Support development of reusable templates, documentation and best practices for global rollout.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with: AVEVA System Platform
  • AVEVA OMI
  • AVEVA InTouch
  • AVEVA InBatch
• AVEVA MES integrations
• Experience using SQL within industrial environments for data management and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience delivering OT / automation solutions within manufacturing environments.
• Experience managing system integrators and automation vendors.
• Understanding of OT cybersecurity principles and secure industrial architectures.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation, Computer Science or related discipline.
• Typically 5 to 10 years’ experience in a similar industrial role.
• Experience working within GAMP or regulated manufacturing environments preferred.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, documentation and communication skills.
• Degree in Automation, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.
• Typically 5 to 10 years’ experience in industrial automation or OT roles.
• Experience working within regulated or GAMP-aligned environments preferred.
• Strong communication, documentation and stakeholder engagement skills.

Additional qualifications and/or experience

• Experience supporting global digital transformation programmes.
• Exposure to standardisation of plant models, templates and multi-site architectures.
• Familiarity with lifecycle management and sustainment of OT platforms at scale.

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 more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, 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.

Overview (Secondary Language)

For the purposes of external advertising we have called this role Global Operational Technology Engineer. However please note that the internal job title the successful candidate will be Process Eng Engineer.