Quaker Facilities & Infrastructure Engineering Associate Manager L9

at  PepsiCo

Overview:
Quaker Facilities & Infrastructure Engineering Associate Manager L9

Responsibilities:

• Facilities & Infrastructure Engineering team executes engineering solutions for Regulatory Compliance, FCAP, Obsolescence, Quality, and Food Safety at Quaker manufacturing sites. This is a unique position that offers a wide breadth of engineering project management experience in the Facilities, Processing, and Packaging departments through cost-effective & time-sensitive installations. The selected candidate will interface with various levels of the organization and work collaboratively across multiple business teams and functions.
• Execute engineering solutions to manage all facilities and infrastructure projects at manufacturing facilities. This can include equipment and processes related to infrastructure, processing, packaging, quality, regulatory compliance, safety, and food safety.
• Participate in and lead cross-functional teams of colleagues and outside resources, including plant personnel, equipment vendors, engineering, construction contractors, as well as other headquarters functions (HQ Food Safety, R+D, Finance, HQ EHS, HQ Field Reliability, HQ COEs) to create mutually beneficial project results.
• Define manufacturing and unit operation needs for project scope requirements and documentation.
• Ability to independently lead multiple medium and large projects.
• Ability to develop multi-site investment strategies to address Food Safety, Obsolescence, Reliability, FCAP, and EHS.
• Ability to develop Standards & Best Practices to be implemented across all of the Quaker sites.
• Apply Engineering principles to problem solving and managing unexpected changes.
• Manage cost by developing project budgets, maintaining cost tracking tools and actively controlling project costs to deliver project cost requirements. Create project funding documents and ability to use/learn cost tracking tools within SAP.
• Demonstrate time management skills by developing project timelines, maintaining time management tools in multiple formats, and actively controlling project schedules, ensuring project schedule attainment.
• Manage procurement including analyzing quotes, writing procurement documents, and tracking project procurement information. This also includes developing and leveraging technical specifications and writing inspection acceptance test plans.
• Develop, manage, and execute equipment installation and start-up plans while supervising outside contractors and vendors.
• Manage multiple project deliverables, accelerated timelines and competing priorities.
• Adequately manage, communicate, and mitigate project risks effectively.
• Expected travel: 20% to 40%

• Facilities & Infrastructure Engineering team executes engineering solutions for Regulatory Compliance, FCAP, Obsolescence, Quality, and Food Safety at Quaker manufacturing sites. This is a unique position that offers a wide breadth of engineering project management experience in the Facilities, Processing, and Packaging departments through cost-effective & time-sensitive installations. The selected candidate will interface with various levels of the organization and work collaboratively across multiple business teams and functions.
• Execute engineering solutions to manage all facilities and infrastructure projects at manufacturing facilities. This can include equipment and processes related to infrastructure, processing, packaging, quality, regulatory compliance, safety, and food safety.
• Participate in and lead cross-functional teams of colleagues and outside resources, including plant personnel, equipment vendors, engineering, construction contractors, as well as other headquarters functions (HQ Food Safety, R+D, Finance, HQ EHS, HQ Field Reliability, HQ COEs) to create mutually beneficial project results.
• Define manufacturing and unit operation needs for project scope requirements and documentation.
• Ability to independently lead multiple medium and large projects.
• Ability to develop multi-site investment strategies to address Food Safety, Obsolescence, Reliability, FCAP, and EHS.
• Ability to develop Standards & Best Practices to be implemented across all of the Quaker sites.
• Apply Engineering principles to problem solving and managing unexpected changes.
• Manage cost by developing project budgets, maintaining cost tracking tools and actively controlling project costs to deliver project cost requirements. Create project funding documents and ability to use/learn cost tracking tools within SAP.
• Demonstrate time management skills by developing project timelines, maintaining time management tools in multiple formats, and actively controlling project schedules, ensuring project schedule attainment.
• Manage procurement including analyzing quotes, writing procurement documents, and tracking project procurement information. This also includes developing and leveraging technical specifications and writing inspection acceptance test plans.
• Develop, manage, and execute equipment installation and start-up plans while supervising outside contractors and vendors.
• Manage multiple project deliverables, accelerated timelines and competing priorities.
• Adequately manage, communicate, and mitigate project risks effectively.
• Expected travel: 20% to 40