Senior Director, Technical Operations & Bottling Innovation

Coca-Cola Co; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Senior Director, Technical Operations in Atlanta, GA to accelerate best-in-class capabilities across its bottling network. You will translate bottler challenges into scalable solutions to improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance KPI performance, aligning partners and driving value across the supply chain.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years of manufacturing/engineering leadership, deep beverage production knowledge, and strong stakeholder influence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline required.
• 10+ years of progressive experience across manufacturing, engineering, or technical operations leadership required.
• Experience working as an Engineer required.
• Demonstrated success leading high-impact initiatives in a complex, matrixed environment and influencing senior stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external partners without relying on direct authority.
• Strong communication, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to create alignment and inspire action across diverse audiences.
• Deep expertise in beverage production technologies and equipment with working knowledge of digital capabilities, technology assessments, and implementation considerations.
• Proven Operational Excellence experience, including problem solving, root cause analysis, and resolution of operational pain points using SALT, Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, and SMED.
• Strong expertise in statistical process control and analysis of site and line performance data to identify insights and guide decisions.
• Knowledge of infrastructure planning, capital strategy, and the CAPEX process.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise-minded leadership across external bottling partners and key stakeholders to identify and advance capabilities and technologies.
• Establish feedback mechanisms and gap assessments to identify opportunities and shape fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Utilize performance data and insights to define focus areas with network-wide impact and drive improvements.
• Facilitate cross-bottler collaboration and share lessons learned for scalable best practices.
• Lead bottlers in diagnosing and solving complex operational challenges through structured problem solving and root cause analysis.
• Evaluate technologies for robustness, scalability, and value, and pilot with bottlers to measure outcomes.
• Champion productivity initiatives and ensure actions are owned and measured for results.

Skills

Beverage Production

Continuous Improvement

Cost Savings

External Partners

Facilitation

Influencing

Leadership

Manufacturing

Process Capability

Statistical Methods

Statistical Process Control

Technical Knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Lean

Six Sigma

SALT

Job description

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Senior Director, Technical Operations in Atlanta, GA to accelerate best-in-class capabilities across its bottling network. You will translate bottler challenges into scalable solutions to improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance KPI performance, aligning partners and driving value across the supply chain.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years of manufacturing/engineering leadership, deep beverage production knowledge, and strong stakeholder influence.