Prof, Operational Trainer

Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you!
Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

Technical Trainer - Sidcup 

Full time permanent role

Closing date 20/7/2026

What you become part of:

Sidcup Operations plays a pivotal role within the CCEP network, producing around 50% of the GB SKU portfolio. The site offers a one stop shop to the GB Market with a range of packages that are single sourced from Sidcup, such as the wide portfolio range of small cans. Across their 7 manufacturing lines the site can produce 480,000 cans every hour, 96,000 PET bottles every hour and 48,000 Glass bottles.

There are currently around 300 employees across Manufacturing, QSE and Engineering, experience here can lead to excellent career opportunities both in Sidcup and further afield across other GB sites and Pan-European locations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop Technical Training Plans: Create and develop the site’s technical training strategies and initiatives in conjunction with Learning & Development (L&D).
• Deliver Training: Provide technical training as per site training plans and OEM guidance to ensure consistent learning standards to foster a competent and knowledgeable workforce both academically and practically. You must be capable delivering to technical groups of all sizes and competencies.
• OEM training: ensure engineers have regular OEM based training to ensure the competence is brought to the correct CCEP standards with a follow up process to ensure the technical gaps are closed and capability is maintained. 
• Audit and Review: Regularly audit and update technical training materials driven through evaluation and new equipment and technologies.
• Foster Learning Culture: Promote a balanced approach to formal training, coaching, and on-the-job learning to enhance performance ensuring that the 20 :10 70 rule of training and developing a person’s experience is part of the plan.
• Training Administration: Maintain and update training records, highlight opportunities and create plan for closure.
• Support engineering apprenticeship: Support engineering apprentices through their apprentices both during their time at college and when on site. Additionally, provide post apprenticeship formal training and support for up to 3 years past apprentice completion.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Educational Background: Apprenticeship qualified or holds an engineering based NVQ level 3 or equivalent (multi-skilled preferred).
• Operational Insight: Ability to develop training materials, conduct engaging and effective training sessions to others based on operational equipment.  
• Industry Experience: Experience in the FMCG/Supply Chain sector, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Technical Training Expertise: Proven experience in the field of learning and development with examples of delivering training using a variety of methodologies with a focus on technical training.
• Compliance Knowledge: Awareness of Health, Safety, and Environment policies.
• Quality Systems Understanding: Familiarity with Quality Management Systems.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.