Manufacturing IT Delivery Lead

Overview

PepsiCo Inc is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Digital Manufacturing program for its Snack Foods business located in Plano, TX. As a Senior Manager for Manufacturing IT Systems, you will oversee the Digital Manufacturing transformation through roadmap design, implementation, and management of technology solutions across 45 manufacturing plants. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that IT services align with strategic business objectives and effectively support manufacturing processes and productivity improvements. Leading the IT and business stakeholders, you will evaluate, implement, and optimize Manufacturing IT solutions and KPI dashboards while ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and standards.

To be successful in this role, the Manufacturing IT lead must have a strong understanding of both technical skills and business process and be able to effectively present and demonstrate solutions to an executive audience

Responsibilities

As Manufacturing IT System delivery Lead, Support the digital manufacturing transformation, spanning both IT and OT domains.

• Cross-disciplinary Collaboration-Collaborate with business stakeholders, other Manufacturing IT service system owners, and operational units to understand requirements, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate business needs into scalable and effective technical solutions.
• Technology Evaluation and Recommendation- Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and solutions to support manufacturing operations, aligning with OT and IT strategies aligning with industry directions. Apply a global mindset with the ability to dimension business case/value delivery out of qualitative, disparate data points across Manufacturing to drive value for the digital transformation
• Comprehensive Solution Architecture- Develop and contribute to comprehensive architecture plans for manufacturing technology solutions, considering factors such as system integration, scalability, performance, support, data analytics and security.
• Technical Leadership and Guidance- Provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams throughout the lifecycle of solution implementation, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards. Oversee the addition of new features and upgrades to their existing MES through newer technologies with
• Technology Adoptions and Introduction: Ability to learn and adopt to advanced digital capabilities such as computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, augmented realities, and digital twins solution and apply to manicuring process with alignment from enterprise architect and business team
• Develop and leverage best practices from PepsiCo divisions as well as from other industries to deliver world class performance in plant and equipment design.
• Multisite Implementation and Sustain: Ensuring MES Solution implemented successfully across the manufacturing plants and platforms with core capability and IT /OT system interface. Ensuring the sustainability of technology and applications on security compliance and capability enhancement and alignment product roadmaps
• Participate in on-call rotation to respond to critical production issues related to MES IT system which impacts the production execution the plants. Leading the troubleshooting thru structured process and provide technical and operational expertise to achieve quick and timely solutions

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $118,700 - $198,800.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 15% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

Qualifications

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• Proven experience as a Service Owner or similar role in a manufacturing environment, with a focus on Manufacturing technology solutions.
• Strong Understanding of reference architectures such as ISA95 and ISA88, B2MML and ERP integration
• Experience digital manufacturing transformation consulting or strategic initiative for CPG