Director, Continuous Improvement at Coca-Cola Beverages Florida in Tampa, Florida

Job Description:

Director, Continuous Improvement Tampa, FL, USA Req #21619 Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Who We Are:

• Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC (Coke Florida) is a family-owned independent Coca-Cola bottler that is the third largestprivately-heldand the sixth largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States.


• Coke Florida sells, markets, manufactures and distributes over 600 products of The Coca-Cola Company and other partner companies including Monster Beverage Corporation and BODYARMOR.


• Coke Florida was named as a 2022 US Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal. This program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams in four key areas: strategy, ability to execute, corporate culture, and governance/financial performance.

What We Offer:
Eligible full time Coke Florida Associates can participate in our Total Rewards Program which includes:

• Total Wellness Programs including health, dental and vision plans


• 401K program with healthy company match


• Supplemental Life Insurance


• Three weeks of vacation pay, and 11 company paid holidays*


• Tuition reimbursement


• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)


• Competitive compensation

Director, Continuous Improvement Coke Florida is searching for a Director of Continuous Improvement to work out of our Tampa Area location.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to operational functions to drive productivity with a focus on efficiencies, yield, people capability building and waste elimination opportunities.


• Support and lead business processes through the development and implementation of strategic initiatives to drive manufacturing's incremental productivity commitments and further build a culture of executional excellence.


• Develop and lead routines to drive the measurement of downtime and plans to improve up time.


• Drive continuous improvement into the culture by educating and coaching the plant teams on DMAIC and Lean to develop their capabilities in engagement, facilitation, planning, execution and troubleshooting.


• Collaborate with manufacturing teams to improve line efficiencies through kaizen events, root cause analysis and other practical Lean methods.


• Collaborate with other functions (Warehouse, HR, Engineering, Quality, IT, Planning, etc. ) as necessary to solve supply chain issues.


• Provide governance for manufacturing measurement policies.


• Influence plant leadership teams of the most optimal methods and actions to resolve issues.


• Collaborate with Data Specialist (Jignesh) to develop dashboards for manufacturing and maintenance KPIs.


• Provide leadership for capital project associated training for manufacturing employees.


• Responsible for monthly efficiency reviews with the manufacturing plants.


• Responsible for monthly maintenance manager meetings to improve maintenance execution and develop effective processes.


• Responsible for development of the long-term CI strategy.


• Provide data analysis regarding line performance and trends for manufacturing and maintenance.


• Provide small sized capital project management as needed.


• Ensure sustainability of past CI projects and focus on standardization and adoption of improved processes.


• Promote CI activities, recognize and reward successes and celebrate CI accomplishments.


• Champion change management by building trust through direct engagement, problem solving, and building relationships.


• Proactively recommends business solutions through the CI lens and can articulate how continuous improvement tools and process can drive business value

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor or BS degree in a Technical or Business field with 10+ years of relevant experience.


• Technical acumen regarding food manufacturing equipment.


• Deep understanding and/or experience in lean production systems, process excellence and performance improvement tools, techniques, and concepts.


• Experience working in food manufacturing or an understanding of food industry is highly desirable.


• Excellent communication skills to enable interactions at various levels in the organization.


• Ability to interact with and influence broad spectrum of leaders and colleagues.


• Experience in coaching and developing large teams.


• Able to effectively hold people accountable even if in senior or peer relationships.


• Acts decisively.


• Proven ability to take on and solve complex problems independently.


• Proven capabilities in successfully executing projects with teams.


• Strong financial acumen.


• Proven change management capabilities.

Skills:

• People management / leadership


• Project and program management


• Interviewing, data collection, fact base gathering


• Root cause analysis


• Strong appreciation for and experience with change management


• Process mapping & optimization


• Effective communication of complex processes and analysis


• Proficiency with productivity and analytics tools


• Can predict roadblocks and finds proactive solutions

Attributes:

• Self-starter, does not need a lot of oversight


• Strong collaborator / ability to work cross-functionally


• Teamwork oriented and strong collaboration skills


• Strong written & verbal communication


• Detail oriented


• Comfortable moving fast and pushing back on the norm


• A "do-er" and a manager


• Strategic thinker


• Experienced at management by influence, even with more senior stakeholders


• Fast learner / quick study


• Customer focused


• Comfortable leading meetings with senior leadership

This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. Coke Florida reserves the right to revise the job description at any time and to assign additional duties and responsibilities as needed. Employment with Coke Florida isat-will. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship. Coca-Cola Beverages Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Other details

• Job Family Manufacturing
• Job Function Quality
• Pay Type Salary

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