Global Leader in Convenient Foods and Beverages
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated $86 billion in net revenue in 2022, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
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Overview
Main Purpose: –
- Vertical startup & stabilization of the green field operation.
- Stabilization of shift quality operations in new green field plant
- Ensuring sustenance and enhancement of quality systems & support food safety systems in plant.
- Ensuring delivery of consistent quality & safe product as per PepsiCo standards
- SOX responsibility for i2C process / control owners
- Support quality assurance manager to ensure compliance for all statutory requirements wrt. FSSAI and Weighs n Measures act.
- Analysis of consumer complain / Take action according/ Sharing report to QCM
- QCs (Operatives) training and develop / Monitoring / IR/ performance appraisal
- Implement PeQMS.
- Monitoring of WUR.
- Coordination with Agro for potato quality.
Responsibilities
Scope:
- Vertical startup of green field plant with right quality product & building a quality culture in the plant.
- Supporting the supply chain, sales function in delivering the right quality product in right time.
- Achieve AOP volume & AVC by ensuring no disruption due to Quality &/or food safety issues or ingredients under QA approval.
- Conduct weekly quality review meeting with Site leadership team and drive the closure of agreed action points
- Coordinate with Quality Executives and Shift in-Charges for daily quality issues, planning and implementing best practices/systems in the plant
- Ensure monthly process audits for manufacturing lines and closure of actions for improvement in product quality
- Support Agro manager in Potato management process thru daily analysis of potato availability as per specs & potato planning for production and monthly audits of potato 3P to ensure storage & testing as per PepsiCo standards
- Lead/Support task forces for quality improvements along with cross functional teams
- Support Food Safety coordinator to close gaps observed in internal food safety audit in process & packaging areas.
- Drive implementation of FLI QA programs thru identification of gaps & ensuring actions in place with FPRs
- Support Q.A manager in driving HH pillar activities as per plan.
- Reinforcement of best practices in Process/Packaging sections to ensure meeting targets on Leakages & Shortages
- Support R&D team in timely launch of NPD’s / other initiatives
- Ensure Quarterly Process capability checks for all lines and improvement in the same
- Facilitate monthly distributor visit of plant team for appreciation of quality issues at market place
- Partner HR in imparting training to plant population on food safety, safety, personal hygiene, product & packaging quality as per training calendar
- Management Information system – Compilation and tracking of key quality performance indicators on daily, weekly and monthly basis
- Communicate the concept of “cost of quality” and importance of quality standards to employees in a structured manner.
- Ensure quarterly youden analysis wrt analytical skills for QA team & operatives and conducting retraining, wherever necessary
Job Dimensions – what is the scope of the role – volume, net revenue, budget, geography, number of customers, number of sites etc for THIS role?
- Volume (AOP volume) & AVC
- Quality – wall in green, leakage, zero RED alert complaint
- 3P & CFA audits
- Market visit
- Total Manpower: Operatives & contractual
- AIB audit
- Packaging machines
Additional information / Complexity
- Complexity of vertically starting up & maintaining of new green field plants with two biggest PC lines along with new pool of manpower.
- Interacting with cross functional team covering HR, Production, Agro, Maintenance, Commercial at different intervals basis function requirement at plant level
- Interacting with Purchase, CQA, R&D at corporate level
- Interacting with Incoming material vendors.
- Managing team of operatives and Contractual
- ER management and Engagement of operatives
Qualifications
Key Skills /Experience required
- E / B.Tech. – Food Technology, 4-6 yrs. of Exp.
- Experience of working in Quality Assurance dept. in food manufacturing units.
- Experience of preparing and implementing FSSAI/AIB/ HACCP in food processing facility.
