Assistant Manager - Manufacturing Job in Patiala at PepsiCo

Pepsico is hiring for the role of Assistant Manager - Manufacturing!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Strategic Business Leadership:Creating Plant Capacity Roadmap: Responsible for putting together blueprint for long-term capacity interventions clearly identifying current and migrating capacity bottlenecks over the horizon of the next 5 years.
  Flexible Manufacturing: Concentrate business provides a whole lot of opportunities for flexible manufacturing given the diversity and the range of products and SKUs to be manufactured. Aggressively seizing the opportunities to create long-term and short-term provisions for Flexible Manufacturing is one of the most desirable qualities of the job holder.
  Annual Operating Plans: Anchoring the formation of an Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for Manufacturing optimizing all the resources and aspects including Plant Capacity Utilization, Product Freshness and Shelf Life, Sales Plans, Manpower, Operating Expenses etc., and strategies to deliver the same in line with business requirements.
  Operating Paradigm shift for Cost Efficiency: Challenging the status quo to evolve new operating strategies for season and non-season which enable optimal plant utilization and bulletproof the unit to the loads of fixed Manufacturing overhead costs.
  Active Team Connect (an engaging workplace): Lead the making of a culture of ownership and teamwork in the team through active engagement with the operating teams and grievances redress.
  Pillar Innovation and Quality: In today’s world sustaining and growing presence in the marketplace is all about innovation and consistent quality. The job holder is expected to actively engage with R&D Teams to deliver the new products on time and Right First Time. Apart from that, it's important to understand the major challenges to product quality and strategize corrections to change to uproot such issues.
  Manufacturing Best Practice: Be the change agent importing best practices across locations in PWF and bottling.
  Balance the Long and Short term: Lead Monthly Weekly and monthly production scheduling as per demand forecast. This needs cross-functional and cross-locational coordination and understanding to be applied.
  
• Operational Excellence (key KPIs)Quality – (Right First Time (RFT), Internal and External DPMO, Customer Complaints Reduction, Qualifying key Quality Audits AIBI, FSSC, GMP, etc., Establish Procedures to ensure high closure rate on CAPAs. Compliance with Standard Operating Procedures. Investigating & implementing action plans on Customer Complaints received from Bottlers that are related to the manufacturing process. Ensure the timely completion of the Activity Matrix jobs. SAP & MII Transactional hygiene and timeliness.
  

Requirements:

• Graduate in Engineering – Chemical/Mechanical/Production Engg
• Experience:Minimum(3-5 Yrs)
  Ideal(5-6 Yrs)