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 2025, for the 4th year in a row, Coke Florida was named as a US Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, recognizing outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams in key areas of strategy, execution, 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
Coke Florida is looking for a Senior Plant Manager based out of our Hollywood location, working Monday - Friday with occasional nights and weekends.
What You Will Do
The Senior Plant Manager serves as the operational leader for Coke Florida's Hollywood area manufacturing facility. This role will operate as a business owner, leading the technological and cultural transformation of a large, complex high‑speed manufacturing center that integrates with advanced automated warehouse systems, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant operations across the entire plant. The Senior Plant Manager provides functional leadership across Production, Quality Assurance and Maintenance while ensuring safe and compliant end‑to‑end operations.
Roles and Responsibilities
- This leader operates as a business owner‑driven performance, building capability, integrating high‑speed production with advanced automated warehousing systems (such as Vertique), achieving key performance measurements related to personnel safety, quality and food safety, service, and cost, while continually improving process reliability and supply chain performance.
- Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration and data‑driven decision making.
- Develop initiatives to achieve performance, quality, and safety standards and ensure achievement of manufacturing goals.
- Lead, develop, motivate teams while fostering a high‑performance culture.
- Collaborate with Technology and Engineering in on‑site design and supporting construction, operation, improvement and maintenance of manufacturing assets, warehouse automation, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), technologies, and processes.
- Collaborate constructively across departments to implement changes, resolve issues, and drive continuous improvement.
- Work with Sales for planning and forecasting of new business.
- Optimize production capabilities to achieve customer satisfaction while attaining operating cost goals.
- Partner with Human Resources to develop a succession plan while supporting employee development, engagement, policy development and retention.
- Responsible for plant financial P&L performance, directing, managing, and monitoring the overall plant operations.
- Conduct regular meetings with customers and community stakeholders to monitor relationships, re‑affirm strategies, and steward the business value created for customers and the community.
For this role, you will need
- Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing, operations, or production environments.
- Prior manufacturing leadership experience is required; food and beverage industry experience preferred.
- Demonstrated success leading Lean / Continuous Improvement initiatives.
- Proven warehouse leadership;
Automated Warehouse experience with Automation Storage & Retrieval Systems (ASRS), Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), and Vertique highly desired.
- Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate long‑term vision into actionable operational plans.
- Strong understanding of budget development, financial management, and cost‑control strategies.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem‑solving skills, with a track record of improving…