Plant Controls Specialist

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision

401K with match

Life Insurance

Vacation & Holidays

Tuition reimbursement

EAP

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida is seeking a Plant Control Specialist in Jacksonville (1st shift, Mon-Fri, 6:00am-2:30pm). The role focuses on building and stewarding an integrated equipment plan to support the commercial strategy for cold drink equipment and ensure the right products and services reach customers.

Ideal candidates have extensive operations or finance experience, ERP familiarity, and a track record in project management within a Consumer Packaged Goods setting.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of experience in operations, supply chain, or finance.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; master's a plus.
• Experience with ERP applications is ideal.
• Consumer Packaged Goods experience highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operationalize an integrated equipment planning process.
• Collaborate with finance on capital needs and funding opportunities.
• Create visibility into equipment performance metrics and actions.
• Provide leadership on equipment effectiveness and innovation.
• Improve business acumen related to cold merchandising equipment.
• Support new processes leveraging equipment for better outcomes.
• Develop and implement key success metrics and scorecards.

Skills

Operations experience

Supply chain

Finance exposure

ERP experience

Project management

CPG industry

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Microsoft Office

ERP software

Job description

Who We Are:

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.

What We Offer

• Total Wellness Programs including health, dental and vision plans
• 401K program with healthy company match
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Three weeks of vacation pay, and 10 company paid holidays*
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Competitive compensation

Plant Control Specialist – Job Location

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.

What You Will Do

Primary focus of this role is to build and steward an integrated operational plan for cold drink equipment that supports the commercial strategy of Coke Florida. The plan will include the entire lifecycle of equipment that enable Coke Florida to have the right equipment in the right place with the right products for the right customers so we can deliver the best consumer experience with our cold beverages.

Roles and 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

For this role, you will need

• 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

Additional Qualifications that will make you successful in this role

• Proficiency in Microsoft Tools: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.
• Data visualization application competence ie. Power BI, Tableau, etc.
• Possess working knowledge of project management tools

Additional Info

This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. Coke Florida reserves the right to revise the job description at any time and to assign additional duties and responsibilities as needed.

Employment with Coke Florida is at-will. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.