Technical Capability Lead

PepsiCo•Munster, IN

About The Position

The Technical Capability Leader will elevate and standardize technical excellence for the beverage manufacturing network. This role is responsible for building deep technical capability across maintenance and subject matter expert (SME) communities, driving horizontal knowledge sharing, and deploying “One Best Way” solutions across bottle and can production systems. This roles is focused on developing advanced equipment expertise, strengthening asset reliability, and accelerating performance across blow molding, processing, filling, labeling, capping, and seaming operations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in engineering, business, operations management, or similar field
Lean Six Sigma Experience preferred, proven by successful completion of a major improvement project.
A minimum of 5 years of operations and technical experience preferred along with 2 years of managing managers.
Ability to think quickly, take initiative, think creatively and challenge team to do the same
Possess strong skills in project management
Proven ability to work in a results-oriented, dynamic environment
Strong leadership skills with the ability to get results through mentoring others
This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States
Must have a valid driver’s license
Safe driving record strongly preferred

Nice To Haves

Potential travel for training less than 5%

Responsibilities

Owns the technical training agenda
Own location and Pod skill development for both new maintenance hires as well as upskilling existing talent
Develop and deploy structured technical training programs for equipment SMEs
Build deep expertise across core beverage manufacturing assets, including but not limited to: Blow molders, Labelers, Blenders, Fillers, Cappers, Seamers, Utility, Thermal Systems, Aceptic, Conveyance and Packaging Systems
Establish standardized competency frameworks and technical certification pathways
Strengthen troubleshooting capability, root cause analysis (RCA), and precision maintenance practices
Partner with reliability and Line Structure teams to build capability in order to reduce chronic losses and improve equipment uptime
Drive standardization of maintenance procedures, job plans, and technical documentation
Lead horizontal deployment of “One Best Way” solutions across the network
Create and maintain a centralized technical knowledge repository
Facilitate cross-site technical forums and SME collaboration sessions
Capture and scale proven equipment improvements, reliability upgrades, and performance enhancements
Demonstrated capability improvement through asset reliability, mean time between failures (MTBF), and mean time to repair (MTTR)
Support plants in closing technical skill gaps that impact safety, quality, and true efficiency
Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain teams to align capability priorities
Partner across Pod to identify Pod technical skill gaps and capability opportunities to develop and optimize training agendas in partnership with the MCOE Reliability and Respond & Recover teams
Partner with MCOE to design and develop technical training materials, including manuals, presentations, and e-learning modules
Coordinate training schedules, logistics and facilitation of technical training to ensure successful execution