Beverage Process Supervisor

PepsiCo•Riva, MD

About The Position

Lead the beverage process and drive compliance with key quality, food safety, and legal standards to protect the Pepsi trademark and ensure product quality and safety. The role oversees water treatment and syrup operations across three shifts, leads people and performance initiatives, manages process KPIs and costs, and works with production, maintenance, projects, P&S, and TPM teams. It also leads food safety, quality, occupational health and safety, sanitation, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement activities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science from an accredited university, or a related field.
3–4 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Food Safety; preferably in the food and beverage industry.
Good knowledge of food safety standards, including FSSC 22000, ISO 22000, GMP, and HACCP.
Experience with quality management systems, internal and external audits, and regulatory compliance.
Strong problem-solving, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) skills.
Good leadership, communication, and team management skills.
Good command of written and spoken English.
Basic knowledge of laboratory testing and quality control systems.

Responsibilities

Manage daily activities across three shifts in the water treatment and syrup units, and secure critical spare parts with Maintenance.
Lead the people agenda, including attendance, performance ratings, capability and career paths, engagement, coaching, and culture change toward PepsiCo ways.
Lead the annual ingredient water sampling plan (3C scorecard).
Lead Aquafina’s two regulatory samples per year and annual sampling plan to the Cork lab.
Lead department KPIs, including ingredient loss, water, energy, net and true efficiency, FLE, chemical and consumable consumption, and productivity initiatives with the P&S team.
Control costs by delivering the MOH rate per case, managing semi-finished cost center spending, building the chemical AOP and tracking monthly spending, and following purchase orders from budget to order.
Partner with the projects team on design and capacity calculations, snag lists, and the commercial calendar.
Assess process capability, address syrup unit constraints, and set the weekly and daily production plan with the production manager.
Secure consumables and chemicals inventory, and ensure material usage follows the SAP BOM and SAP process.
Perform audits and inspections to ensure requirements are met.
Lead the FIP agenda so the beverage process meets PepsiCo hygienic design standards, and lead standard owner and risk mitigation initiatives.
Build an inclusive safety culture through coaching.
Lead the department’s OHS agenda.
Partner with the TPM manager on the action plan and step exit criteria, and lead AM and PM plan implementation.
Achieve and maintain food safety and safety certifications, including ISO 22000, HACCP, AIB, NFSA, QAS, GEHSMS, ISO 14000, FM Global, and Civil Defense.
Lead quality, food safety, and safety performance improvement in the beverage process, and support PepsiCo strategy in these areas.
Own risk assessments on holds and incidents, including robust root cause analysis and CAPA.
Monitor and react to the sanitation category, and sustain microbiological compliance with PepsiCo and regulatory requirements.