Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited Hiring for Senior Manager, Manufacturing Operations at North York, ON Full Time

Coke Canada Bottling is Canada’s premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love.

We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Life™, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq’s®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, and A&W®.

About This Opportunity

The Senior Manager, Operations is responsible for the overall management and co-ordination of various manufacturing functions within a single facility. Manufacturing management experience should reflect an understanding of the impact factory performance has in the areas of delivery, cost, quality, and service. This role may require knowledge and deployment of state-of-the-art-manufacturing practices (including continuous flow) as well as quality and continuous improvement techniques, strong analytical and quantitative skills, excellent communication, interpersonal effectiveness, and leadership. The Senior Manager, Operations is also involved in human resources matters including labour relations. The Sr. Manager will also be developed for future Plant Manager opportunities.

The Senior Manager, Operations will report to the Plant Manager based out of our North York facility.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute 18 months business plans supporting local objectives including the development and implementation of strategies, processes, and programs.

Motivate, direct, coach and develop a diverse, high performing operations team to meet established goals and organizational capability

Effectively translate department goals and objectives to all levels of the organization ensuring alignment on relevant performance data

Routinely review business results with operations personnel to maximize plant performance

Foster an environment that supports an engaged safety culture

Develop a culture that embraces the tenets of operational excellence such as leading Autonomous Maintenance or Focused Improvement Pillars

Adopt and share best ideas with peers across Supply Chain

Ensure manufacturing processes are compliant with company specifications and meet customer expectations

Satisfy the needs and service requirements of the internal and external customers

Ensure compliance to company and regulatory policies

Qualifications

National Geo-Mobility

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business or related technical field or combination of education/relevant work experience

At least 8 years of increasing levels of manager roles of people and process. Food or Beverage manufacturing experience (at least half)

Working knowledge of Food Safety, Environment, Health and Safety ISO Standards or other management systems

TPM (Total Productive Manufacturing) / Lean, Six Sigma

Expertise in principles of operations, specific supply chain capabilities, strategies, and interdependencies

Expertise in key business drivers used to gauge the effectiveness and performance of an internal group or supplier

Ability to collaborate cross functionally and coordinate efforts around continuous improvement

Important

All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada Bottling”) are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification and drivers abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regards to this once you are contacted for further consideration.

Coke Canada Bottling is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce with several programs, policies and resources in place to support our people. For individuals requiring accommodations or support throughout the recruitment process please contact our Talent Acquisition Services team by calling 1-844-383-2653

For more information about Coke Canada Bottling, please visit cokecanada.com