PepsiCo Industrial Placement 2025

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PepsiCo Industrial Placement 2025

You’ve learned a lot as a student—now it’s time to put that knowledge into practice! At PepsiCo, our structured placement programmes offer you the chance to make a real impact on some of the world’s biggest brands. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful projects, shake things up, and develop your potential in a dynamic environment.

We are seeking enthusiastic undergraduates for our R&D and Supply Chain teams. Opportunities are available across various disciplines, including:

Supply Chain Opportunities:

Central Technical Services

• Location: Coventry and Leicester
• Preferred degrees: Mechanical/Electrical, Chemical, or Manufacturing Engineering
• Lead and manage Capital Projects, ensuring compliance with PepsiCo standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and deliver projects that drive technical productivity.

Change and Transformation

• Location: Leicester
• Preferred degrees: Business Management or related fields
• Support the planning and deployment of new product specifications and capital investment programs.

Engineering

• Location: Coventry, Leicester, and Lincoln
• Preferred degrees: Mechanical/Electrical, Chemical, or Manufacturing Engineering
• Drive equipment reliability and energy improvements through hands-on projects.

Operations

• Location: Brigg, Coventry, and Leicester SRDC
• Preferred degrees: Business Management or related fields
• Lead projects from inception to completion, identifying productivity improvements along the way.

Quality & Food Safety

• Location: Coventry and Lincoln
• Preferred degrees: Food Science, Technology, or related fields
• Support initiatives to enhance food safety performance and quality metrics.

R&D Opportunities:

Agricultural Science

• Location: Beaumont Park, Leicester
• Preferred degrees: Biological Sciences, Environmental Sciences, or related fields
• Assist in developing technologies for global food brands through field trials and data analysis.

Nutrition & Sport Sciences

• Location: Beaumont Park, Leicester
• Preferred degrees: Nutrition or Sports Science
• Support nutrition documentation and engage with athletes through Gatorade’s initiatives.

Packaging

• Location: Beaumont Park, Leicester
• Preferred degrees: Packaging, Food Science, or Product Design Engineering
• Lead sustainable packaging development activities and conduct tests to enhance product attributes.

Product Development

• Location: Beaumont Park, Leicester
• Preferred degrees: Food Science or Chemistry
• Engage in hands-on product trials and collaborate with global teams to innovate.

Process Development

• Location: Beaumont Park, Leicester
• Preferred degrees: Chemical Engineering or related fields
• Manage experimental studies and contribute to technology evaluation projects.

Virtual Development

• Location: Beaumont Park, Leicester
• Preferred degrees: Mechanical/Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or Data Science
• Apply machine learning and modelling techniques to drive innovation.

Analytical Chemistry

• Location: Beaumont Park, Leicester
• Preferred degrees: Chemistry or Biochemistry
• Design experimental studies to analyse process-induced changes in foods.

What are we looking for?

• Full right to work in the UK for the duration of the placement.
• Students in their penultimate year of university, with a sandwich placement option.
• Intellectual curiosity, ambition, creativity, and a passion for sustainability and engineering.

What else do you need to know?

• Salary: £23,800
• Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, discounted products, competitive pension, and health benefits.

Application Process:

• Online application, one way video interview, and virtual assessment centre.
• Closing Date: 20th October 2024.

Join us at PepsiCo and be part of a vibrant culture that values diversity and inclusion. Your journey starts here!

For questions, please contact: angelika.predota@pepsico.com.

About PepsiCo

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row. Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. 

At PepsiCo, you can Dare for Better. We’re proud to offer some of the most popular foods and beverages in the world, but we don’t just stop there. We work to make them more environmentally friendly, healthier and more efficient, bringing more smiles to people and places around the world. We Dare for Better as an employer, too. Our early career associates don’t just sit on the sidelines. You get to make a big impact in the future of our global brands, supply chain — and the way we do business. It’s your passion, perspective and ideas that keep us growing. We believe in leaders at all levels, so that means access to big-brand experience, new technology, supportive colleagues and learning opportunities for associates right out of school. We want you to be you at work. That means flexibility and an inclusive culture that celebrates everyone’s life, ideas and perspective. We’re out to create more possibilities for more people — including you. Join us and we’ll Dare for Better, together.

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