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Overview

PepsiCo is on the lookout for a QC Manager to join our team in Cork on a permanent basis.

The Technical Function is our team of enabling experts offering knowledge and partnership to functions on specialist subjects including engineering, quality and productivity. They ensure operations and food safety excellence for our team. Could you bring a new dimension to our technical expertise? If so we could take your talents to a whole new level. 

Responsibilities

Primary accountabilities:

  • Global technical lead for PGCS packaging: delivering quality, cost and total system efficiencies for packaging development against business targets for material substrates such as plastics (rigid/flexible), corrugated, glass, wood and metals.
  • Sustainability: Embed Pep+ principles in packaging development to deliver technical solutions that are sustainable from the start and optimized for PGCS operations and supply chain.
  • Drive technical competency, capability, and best practices at PGCS sites, to enhance quality, food safety, sustainability, productivity and compliance to regulations.
  • Collaborate with local and global SRA team for horizon scanning of regulatory landscape and develop compliance plan ahead of effectivity date.
  • Lead development and commercialization of packaging innovation through internal and external stakeholders engagement. Deliver $$ productivity & Sustainability targets.
  • Collaboratey with procurement and supply chain to assure supply of quality, & field ready packaging materials for new product launches.
  • Manage packaging supplier audits and sustain/maintain approval status in collaboration with global Supplier Quality Assurance team.
  • Technical stewardship for the development & management of the technical specifications, test method development and qualification process for packaging materials.
  • Provide regular on-going technical support to plant sites in the delivery of both technical and quality solutions for packaging projects and field issue resolutions.
  • Travel is required (15% - 20%) as per business needs and to support global programs and develop site and vendor technical capability.

Qualifications

Essential Skills:

  • Proven Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the area of material processing for packaging employed in the food, flavors/pharmaceutical/dairy industry.
  • Excellent working knowledge of quality systems and the employment of quality tools for the processing and manufacture of polymeric, paper and metal materials.
  • Technically sound across several packaging substrates (plastics, corrugated, glass, metals).
  • Strong project management skills with a proven ability to manage diverse project programmes across a multicultural work environment.
  • Ability to communicate and manage stakeholders, both internally and externally, up to senior levels across the organization. Ability to influence and gain commitment at all levels of the organization.
  • Strong strategic leadership mindset and ability to collaborate across many functions to deliver on goals and targets.
  • Ability to identify risks and issues with appropriate mitigation and to determine when escalation is needed.
  • Analytically strong with ability to connect multiple insights sources and transform insights into strategies.
  • Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple priorities simultaneously.
  • Self-motivated, highly organized and a strong communicator.
  • Proven leadership skills and demonstrated strategic thinking and a global perspective.

Desired Skills:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in material or physical sciences.
  • 5+ years’ experience in the processing of plastics a distinct advantage e.g. polymer extrusion, extrusions blow moulding, blow moulding, injection moulding.
  • Member of IOP/IOM and an awareness of UN Packaging regulations advantageous.
  • Project Management
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