Plant Controls Specialist

Coke Florida Careers•Jacksonville, FL

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC (Coke Florida) is a family-owned independent Coca-Cola bottler that is the third largest privately-held and the sixth largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States. Coke Florida sells, markets, manufactures and distributes over 600 products of The Coca-Cola Company and other partner companies including Monster Beverage Corporation and BODYARMOR. In 2026, for the 5th year in a row, Coke Florida was named as a US Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal. This program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams in four key areas: strategy, ability to execute, corporate culture, and governance/financial performance. Coke Florida is looking for a Plant Control Specialist based out of our Jacksonville location. We’re currently looking for 1st shift, working Monday-Friday, 6:00am-2:30pm.

Requirements

Minimum 8 years of experience in operations, supply chain, or finance
Bachelor’s Degree preferred, Master’s a plus
Previous entrepreneurial and/or operational business experience highly valued
Previous experience with ERP applications is ideal
Some project management experience preferred
Previous Consumer Packaged Goods experience
Proficiency in Microsoft Tools: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.
Data visualization application competence ie.Power BI, Tableau, etc.
Possess working knowledge of project management tools

Responsibilities

Liaison across functions to develop and operationalize an integrated equipment planning process. This would include the commercial demand that drives the equipment needs both remanufactured or purchased to development of capacity planning and delivery of the right mix of equipment to support commercial needs.
Engages with the finance team on the capital needs and flow of equipment purchases in conjunction with any funding opportunities that may be available to Coke Florida.
Build the structure and integrate into standing routines that will allow for visibility of equipment performance metrics and what actions we need to take to improve equipment placements, performance and utilization.
Provide thought leadership on equipment effectiveness such equipment rationalization, definition of measures of success, equipment innovation, etc.
Improve the business acumen of the organization as it relates to cold merchandising equipment inclusive of unattended retail equipment.
Provide support in new business processes and capabilities that leverages equipment to improve it’s operational and economic outcomes.
Develop/implement key success metrics and scorecard
Champion innovation initiatives like IoT application in our equipment placements to improve our customer experience and service levels.
All other assigned tasks in support of the organizational objectives