Overview
2025 Full Time - Frito-Lay Supply Chain Quality & Food Safety Assoc. Analyst - Undergrad
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Responsibilities
Functional Description:
The goal of Frito-Lay's Supply Chain Quality and Food Safety program is to provide students with the opportunity to leverage their academic understanding in a real-world, business-driven environment. You will have an opportunity to work on and manage a variety of different projects as well as leverage relationships and partner with leaders from our manufacturing plants. Our organization is based in Plano, Texas.
What you can expect:
- Assist in the analysis and development of quality and food safety metrics and business processes leveraging Tableau or other analytical tools.
- Derive insights from multiple QFS metrics & Communicate cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues, report findings to other team members and management as required
- Administer policies and practices, initiate, and implement projects
- Conduct presentations and formal training programs
- Improve team communication and engagement
- Think quickly, creatively and challenge team to do the same
- Support and execute various components and activities spanning the quality and food safety programs such as collecting data, business case product analysis, risk assessments, documenting procedures, develop training, auditing, process improvement and issues management
- Be accountable for quality and food safety programs and achievement of line performance metrics
- Passion for leveraging data and creating meaningful insight leveraging key Data analytics techniques include those such as data/text mining, machine learning, pattern matching, visualization, and statistics
- Manage multiple projects and competing priorities
Compensation & Benefits:
- The expected compensation range for this role based on a full-time schedule is $64,600 - $87,000
- Role, degree discipline, degree level, and location are part of the process when determining actual starting salary for positions.
- Compensation for our campus hires is pre-determined and non-negotiable.
- In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan. Paid time off is subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
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Qualifications
What we're looking for:
- Currently pursuing a degree in: Food Processing Engineering, Food Science, Microbiology, Agriculture/Biological Engineering, or Chemical Engineering (other related majors will be considered)
- Working knowledge of Python, Tableau and other reporting tools.
- Demonstrated leadership ability
- Highly motivated self-starters
- Strong project management skills
- Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make tradeoff decisions quickly
- Ability to work on large projects and manage time and effort without need for constant supervision
- Ability to give/receive constructive feedback
- Ability to lead a team based approach to decision making
- Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
- Experience with statistical modeling and developing reporting tools
- Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation and team building skills
- Communication skills to work with all levels of the organization from manufacturing employees to corporate executives
- Proven problem-solving skills
Minimum Qualifications - Each candidate is expected to:
- This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States
- Be completing their final year of undergraduate studies
- Hold a Bachelor's degree prior to the intended full time start date
EEO Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.
Please view our Pay Transparency Statement