Continuous Improvement Manager at Pepsi Bottling Ventures in Garner, North Carolina

Job Description:

Responsibilities/Duties:

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At Pepsi, we spread home-grown joy, in our special Pepsi Bottling Ventures way! Pepsi Bottling Ventures is the nation’s largest private bottler and distributor of Pepsi beverages. Pepsi Bottling Ventures is based in NC, SC, MD, & DE.

Purpose of Job: Develops and manages a Continuous improvement program to all of the 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.

Job Duties:

• Leads and develops the continuous improvement roadmap.


• Organizes and facilitates steering meetings and audits.


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


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


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


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


• Promotes and manages 5S + Safety activities in the shop floor of the sites, with visual standards.


• Participates in budget construction and management of improvement budget.


• Knows and complies with all site quality, food safety and H&S requirements.


• Supports benchmarking activities with other PBV sites.


• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

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

• Two Medical Options


• Two Dental Options


• Vision Insurance


• Accidental, Critical Illness, and Hospital Insurance


• FSA / HSA Accounts


• 401(K), with up to 5% Pepsi Match


• On demand pay advances


• Paid Personal Days after 60 days of employment


• Paid Vacation Days after 5 months of employment


• 9 Paid Holidays, eligibility begins day 1.


• Company Paid Life Insurance


• Company Paid Short & Long Term Disability


• Legal Plan Access


• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement, up to $3,000 a year


• Comprehensive Work/Life Wellness Program (EAP)


• Opportunities for career growth and development

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.