Senior Manager, Manufacturing Operations - Sidcup

Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you!

Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?

Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?

Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

Competitive Salary + Bonus + Flexible Benefits + Share Scheme + Pension Plan + Car Parking

What you become part of:

Sidcup Operations plays a pivotal role within the CCEP network, producing around 50% of the GB SKU portfolio. The site offers a one stop shop to the GB Market with a range of packages that are single sourced from Sidcup, such as the wide portfolio range of small cans. Across their 10 manufacturing lines the site can produce 480,000 cans per hour, 96,000 PET bottles per hour and 48,000 Glass bottles alongside Pouch production for Capri Sun. There are currently around 300 employees across Manufacturing, QESH and Engineering, experience here can lead to excellent career opportunities both in Sidcup and further afield across other GB sites and Pan-European locations.

What to expect:

To be successful in this role you will need to deliver in key areas:

• Lead & drive a culture of engagement towards Quality, Environment, Safety & Health

• Play a leadership role within manufacturing, personally role-modelling behaviours and own performance required to achieve the site’s objectives

• Drive performance improvements across all areas of Manufacturing Operations to service the CCEP marketplace. Lead the execution of our asset care programme’s to ensure asset life-cycle management is delivered and the utilisation of these assets are available when required to service the market with peak demand.

• Spearhead the Operational Excellence approach on site to bring best in class performance alongside sustainable business improvements.

• Accountability for the effectiveness of an integrated management system (quality management systems/food safety management systems/OH&S Management systems and environment management systems).

• Ensuring that the policy and objectives are established for the management systems and are comparable and appropriate with the strategic direction of the organisation systems.

• Responsible for managing adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices/Good Distribution Practices standards.

• Lead incident management investigations to ensure there is no risk to products and people and incorporate learnings into future manufacturing practices

• Ensure Quality, Health, Safety and Environment risk assessment processes are carried out in accordance with Management System standards to protect product and employees.

• Partner with the negotiated group on site to continue to develop Sidcup as a Great Place to Work.

Skills & Essentials:

• Significant operational management experience in an FMCG business

• Delivering performance improvement through technology and people improvements

• Knowledge of world class manufacturing methods and techniques

• People leadership of a operational unit, at least 150+ people in a unionised environment

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.

We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.