Continuous Improvement Manager

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Job Description

Pepsi Bottling Ventures is seeking a Continuous Improvement Manager to join our team.

Who We Are

We are jointly owned by Suntory and PepsiCo. Suntory is a family-owned business founded in Japan more than 125 years ago that is known globally for their beverages and innovative spirit. PepsiCo has a 125-year plus legacy as a global leader in convenient foods and beverages. We represent Suntory’s non-alcoholic beverage industry in the United States and have an 80-year plus legacy of providing PepsiCo products to the Carolinas and beyond.

What We Do

We make, sell, and distribute PepsiCo and other beverages. We do business in five states and sell PepsiCo beverages to most of the market in our geographic regions. We also develop our own line of beverages, producing and distributing a growing product line nationally.

What Makes Us Unique

We bring you the beverages you love. We bring PepsiCo’s beloved beverages and more to you and our customers. As a part of Suntory, we believe in dreaming big and boldly pursuing our dreams, growing for good, and giving back to society. We innovate to create new beverages, like our Nature’s Twist refreshing lemonade line, and we continuously expand our beverage portfolio to bring you and our customers joy.

What We Look for in Leaders

Our leaders embrace a coaching leadership style. We look for leaders that empower all team members. Our leaders value integrity, teamwork, accountability, adaptability, and communication in all they do and expect from their teams.

Continuous Improvement Manager Role Overview

Develop and manage a continuous improvement program for all manufacturing sites. This role will be responsible for assessing, monitoring, and enhancing the activities related to the site performance, including safety, quality, cost, delivery, morale, environment. This role will visualize and analyze performance KPIs, check and evaluate the actions of each plant, and support executing concrete activities for improving those performances with site teams.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the continuous improvement roadmap.

• Organize and facilitate steering meetings and audits.

• Report progress, improvements, and savings against agreed goals and targets, with data and business KPIs.

• Manage and develop daily management process of anomalies in the site, to realize the recurrence preventions of the issues.

• Develop a culture to liaise the day-by-day information to individual Kaizen (improvement) projects.

• Support troubleshooting operations, processes, and equipment in order to reduce losses.

• Promote and manage 5S + safety activities in the shop floor of the sites, with visual standards.

• Participate in budget construction and management of improvement budget.

• Know and comply with all site quality, food safety, and H&S requirements.

• Support benchmarking activities with other PBV sites.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 2 years of relevant experience, or 6 years of relevant experience.

• 3 years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing facility.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred.

• Basic skill of Microsoft Excel.

• Experience with mechanical maintenance preferred.

• Experience with soft drink bottling preferred.

• Detail oriented and able to multitask.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Possess excellent analytical skills.

• Able to travel 50% of the time.

Compensation and Benefits

As part of your total compensation package, you will also receive the following benefits:

• Paid time off, including holidays, vacation days, personal days, parental leave, and bereavement leave

• 401(k) with a company match

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance options, as well as supplemental health plan options, including accident, critical illness, and hospitalization

• Saving and spending accounts

• Company-paid telemedicine services

• Free counseling and information services

• Wellness program

• Company-paid life insurance

• Company-paid disability coverage

• Adoption assistance

• Education assistance

• Legal service plan option

• Pay advance option

Unfortunately, we will be unable to offer visa sponsorships to candidates.

EOE M/F/D/V

Pepsi Bottling Ventures is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. All employment decisions are based on valid job-related requirements. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our website, you may request a reasonable accommodation to express interest in a specific opening. You can request reasonable accommodation by calling 1-800-662-8792 or via e-mail at [email protected]