Operational Excellence Manager

Join a business built on trusted brands, great people and teamwork, where care and fresh ideas help keep things moving. Here, your contribution helps serve our customers, support our operations and enable our teams to do their best work. You†ll be encouraged to bring your strengths, supported to grow, and welcomed into a team where we make a meaningful difference together., Our East Kilbride site produces around 33 million cases of drinks every year across four high-performing production lines, including two glass and two PET bottling lines. It is also the only site in Great Britain producing Appletiser in glass, making it a unique place to develop expertise within a world-class manufacturing environment., Reporting directly to the Site Director, you'll play a key role in shaping site performance, embedding a culture of continuous improvement and supporting East Kilbride's operational excellence journey., Working closely with site leadership and cross-functional teams, you'll drive continuous improvement initiatives, develop capability across the business and ensure Operational Excellence principles are fully embedded into day-to-day operations.,

• Leading and delivering the site's Operational Excellence roadmap, supporting progression through the CCEP maturity framework
• Conducting gap assessments and translating findings into actionable improvement plans
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing, engineering and support functions
• Using data and performance insights to identify, prioritise and deliver improvement opportunities
• Managing and developing the Continuous Improvement team, building capability and promoting a high-performance culture
• Overseeing the site's improvement pipeline and ensuring projects deliver measurable business benefits
• Auditing frontline routines and coaching leaders to strengthen standards, problem-solving and accountability
• Supporting autonomous maintenance, reliability and productivity improvement activities
• Facilitating improvement workshops and coaching teams through structured problem-solving methodologies
• Reviewing capability requirements and supporting learning and development plans to strengthen operational performance
• Partnering with operational leaders to prioritise and deploy technical resources in support of key improvement initiatives
 This is a highly influential role, providing the opportunity to work across all areas of the site while helping shape the future performance and capability of the operation.


• A degree relevant to FMCG, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Proven experience leading operational excellence, continuous improvement or transformation programmes within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of recognised improvement methodologies such as TPM, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma or similar frameworks.
• Experience implementing performance improvement initiatives and delivering measurable operational results.
• The ability to analyse complex data and translate insights into practical actions.
• Experience coaching and developing teams to adopt continuous improvement principles and behaviours.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities and a data-driven approach.
• A collaborative leadership style with the ability to engage and influence across multiple functions.
• A passion for coaching, developing capability and driving continuous improvement.
• If you're looking for an opportunity to influence site-wide performance, develop organisational capability and play a leading role in shaping the future of one of our key manufacturing sites, we'd love to hear from you.
  
  We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), with 39,000 people serving 4 million customers across 31 markets. We combine the scale of a large multinational business with expert local knowledge of the customers and communities we serve, investing, employing, manufacturing and distributing locally.