Director, Technical Operations - Infrastructure and Engineering Excellence

Position Overview:
Lead the Development of the Manufacturing Footprint for the Coca-Cola INSWA System as per the Long Range Plan. The role also supports team members in building up manufacturing and engineering excellence in Bottling Operations across INSWA OU and is responsible for the following

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the Bottling System to fulfil E2E Supply Chain capacities (manufacturing and warehousing) to support the Commercial Strategies, Launches Pipeline and technological capabilities to ensure business growth by the Business Plan
• Delivery of future supply chain strategy in terms of technology and infrastructure across the End-to-End System supply chain, including onboarding of Co-packers in line with Supply Chain plans.
• Establish an overall delivery strategy for new lines/under supply network expansion plans, and collaborate with Bottling project managers and Project Management Companies to ensure delivery meets the desired specifications and timelines.
• Deliver manufacturing and warehouse capacities to support business growth and to optimise supply network design for the long term, ensuring that the manufacturing lines, processes and equipment have been validated and authorised to fill company products, especially sensitive formulas
• Maintain oversight on Capacity projects (brownfield/ greenfield) from a timeline perspective and communicate execution timelines by plant/line. Work with Supply Chain to develop scenarios to address emergencies which emerge due to unforeseen events (e.g., Global Logistics, component shortages etc.) and execute the back-up plans to meet delivery timelines/ alternate options to meet demand.
• Work with QSE and Sustainability teams to ensure elements of Quality by Design and Sustainability by design are captured as part of the Project Design.
• Lead Engineering activities for the project sites, including facilities, layout, utilities, waste water treatment plant and process water treatment plants and Automation.
• Execute the SC contingency plans (from an infrastructure and capacity perspective) as per demand and supply in alignment with the Supply Chain team and the bottling partners
• Leads project managers within the Operating Unit and Bottling Teams to deliver additional capacity thereby supporting the achievement of business objectives.
• Lead the co-packer approval process in OU to enable new product/category innovations. Work with the QSE team to develop fit-for-purpose governance for the co-packer introduction and approval of lines/facilities.
• Build and curate manufacturing and engineering excellence communities of practice
• Work with OEMs and bottling teams to ensure fast scale-up of new lines at the operational level (plant, country, bottling partner), and ensure sharing of successful practices across the system.
• Bring new capacities and technologies on time, at the right quality, whilst ensuring compliance with fit-for-purpose governance models and 'smart' risk management, focusing on food safety and legal compliance, as well as TCCC Governance Models.
• Maintain an external network of relationships with OEMs to inform KO of leading Supply Chain innovations on the Technology front

• Graduate Engineer from a tier 1 engineering college - Mechanical/ Electrical/ Chemical or MBA in Operations from a premium college

• 12+ years of experience in Project Management, Green/Brown Field Project Execution, New Product Line Setup, Design, Erection & Commissioning, Capex Requirement & Planning and Capacity Expansion

• In-depth understanding og FMCG /Beverage manufacturing process, engineering design skills for food manufacturing preferably
• Understanding of design elements to include Quality & Food Safety, People Safety and Sustainability elements at the design stage of the project
• Very good understanding of technical risk management, technical governance, project management framework and methodologies
• Strong abilities to connect and collaborate with the bottling partners and OEMs
• Strong project planning and management skills to ensure efficient execution of capacity projects to be handled
• Strong risk mapping and problem-solving skills to support the assigned bottling operations