Manufacturing Process Specialist

About the role

The role partners closely with plant leadership, engineering, quality, maintenance, and supply chain teams to analyze performance, customer complaints, identify process gaps, and support continuous improvement and transformation initiatives. The role brings deep manufacturing analytics expertise while influencing decisions through insight, measurement, and storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Analyze manufacturing performance data to identify trends, losses, and improvement opportunities across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity
• Develop and maintain standardized manufacturing KPIs and reporting (e.g., OEE, FPY, scrap, waste, downtime, labor productivity, capacity utilization)
• Perform advanced root cause analysis to support problem solving efforts in production and operations
• Partner with Lean, Six Sigma, and Operational Excellence teams to support continuous improvement initiatives
• Quantify baseline performance, opportunity sizing, and realized benefits from improvement projects
• Support manufacturing and digital transformation initiatives by ensuring data readiness and insight generation
• Translate process maps and operational workflows into measurable performance indicators
• Leads root cause analysis and recommends and implements process corrective actions as necessary ensuring sustainability of those corrective actions.
• Assume project manager responsibility for equipment and/or process project from definition, design and implementation through startup of plant operations.
• Design and deliver intuitive dashboards and reports for plant leaders and functional stakeholders
• Automate recurring reports to improve speed, accuracy, and scalability
• Ensure data integrity across manufacturing data sources, including MES, ERP, maintenance, and quality systems
• Act as a thought partner to operations, engineering, quality, and supply chain teams
• Translate business and manufacturing challenges into analytical questions and solutions
• Communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Lead/Support Validation of process and equipment as established by KORE
• Participates in or supports all activities related to occupational safety, environmental and quality programs in order to promote the development of knowledge and skills (Corrective Actions, preventive actions, periodical training, and quality meetings, among others).
• Support all initiatives that encourage improvement in all environmental, occupational safety and quality aspects of the processes and work environment to reduce human errors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Data Analytics, Statistics, or related field
• 3–5+ years of experience in manufacturing analytics, operations analytics, or process improvement support
• Strong proficiency in Excel;
• Experience building dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools
• Hands on experience with manufacturing data sources (MES, ERP, CMMS, quality systems)

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and performance drivers
• Structured problem solving and analytical rigor
• Data storytelling and stakeholder influence
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Ability to work independently while collaborating across functions
• Negotiation: Exploring alternatives and positions to reach outcomes that gain all parties' support and acceptance; striving for outcomes that are a win-win for all parties involved.
• Customer Focus: Making customers (external and internal) and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; developing and sustaining productive customer relationships; creating and executing plans and solutions in collaboration with the customer.
• Making decisions including the cases of stopping the use of materials, production or the shipment of products, when the quality, product integrity, safety of self and others, property, environment, community, the health of consumers, etc. is in jeopardy.

Leadership Behaviors

• Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business.
• Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders: Develop and leverage relationships with stakeholders to appropriately stretch and impact the System (Company and Bottler).
• Act like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.
• Inspire Others: Inspire people to deliver our mission and Vision, demonstrate passion for the business and give people a reason to believe anything is possible.
• Develop Self & Others: Develop self and support others’ development to achieve full potential.

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range: United States of America: 105,900 USD – 143,200 USD
Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.