SC Department Manager Designate

About the position

The SC Department Manager Designate role at PepsiCo is a comprehensive training position designed to prepare individuals for a full-time assignment as a Department Manager overseeing Production, Quality, or Maintenance. This role involves optimizing operational efficiencies, ensuring compliance with quality objectives, and maintaining positive employee relations while driving significant change within the supply chain. The position includes a 9-12 month onboarding program where the designate will learn from experienced leaders and contribute to achieving cost targets and improving performance in various operational areas.

Responsibilities

• Optimize operational efficiencies to support the facility's production, quality control, or maintenance operations
• Optimize ingredient and packaging material usage to minimize waste
• Ensure operational practices are followed to control inventories
• Ensure PepsiCo financial and accounting control procedures are followed to ensure accurate inventory records are maintained
• Maintain product quality and sanitation standards
• Flex production plans on a shift by shift basis, managing through issues to prevent service issues and operational inefficiencies
• Identify and coordinate operations improvements necessary to deliver the site annual operating plan (AOP)
• Manage the performance of direct reports through performance reviews, frequent discussions, coaching, and career development action plans
• Champion and lead an effective safety culture
• Coach teams to demonstrate continuous improvement in profitability margins, efficiencies, and cost savings initiatives
• Ensure compliance with Company policies, contracts and procedures
• Directly oversees operational measures including efficiency, yield loss, product quality, inventory accuracy, transactional accuracy
• Regular presence on the plant floor
• May require off-shift and weekend work

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, preferably in engineering, business, operations management, or similar field
• Lean Six Sigma Experience preferred, demonstrated by successful completion of a major improvement project
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in manufacturing preferred, preferably food/beverage experience
• Strong skills in TPM or lean manufacturing, finance and accounting, project management, human relations, effective communications, and statistics/logical problem solving
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite applications
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Ability to lead a team-based approach to decision making
• Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to get results through mentoring skills
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team building skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in food and beverage manufacturing
• Knowledge of safety policies and procedures

Benefits

• 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 including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 12% of annual salary paid out annually