Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

March 17, 2026

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Job Title: Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineer
Location: Atlanta, GA
Travel: 10–20% (supplier and partner sites)
Reports To: Mechanical Engineering Lead

Role Summary:
The Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineer supports the execution of engineering efforts across Coca-Cola’s Global Equipment Platforms (GEP), with a focus on technical problem-solving and implementing scalable innovations for mechanical systems. Reporting to the Mechanical Engineering Lead, this position plays a critical role in enhancing the reliability, quality, and efficiency of Coca-Cola’s beverage equipment portfolio. This hands-on role is responsible for sourcing, developing, and enabling deployment of critical solutions, managing key engineering documentation, and ensuring seamless integration into
product platforms. Success in this position is measured by the timely delivery of technical solutions, contributions to lifecycle sustainability, and the successful adoption of mechanical innovations across multiple platforms.

Key Responsibilities
Execution of Mechanical System Enhancements (60%)
• Support Innovation Deployment: Work closely with the Mechanical Engineering Lead to implement strategic roadmaps through prototyping, testing, and refining novel mechanical solutions.
• Quality Assurance: Perform reliability testing and lifecycle analysis on mechanical components to ensure compliance with engineering standards and equipment performance goals.
• Component Optimization: Troubleshoot and resolve issues in mechanical subsystems (e.g., fluidics, pumps, and chassis) in conjunction with partner Core Engineering functions to enhance reliability and operational efficiency.
• Documentation Ownership: Create and maintain technical documentation, including CAD files, specification sheets, interface requirements, and system diagrams, ensuring platform teams have ready access to critical information.

Support Fleet and Platform Stability (20%)
• Lifecycle Management: Collaborate with platform-as-product leads to assess component obsolescence risks and provide support for novel solutions to sustain long-term fleet performance.
• Engineering Standards: Contribute to the development and consistent application of Coca-Cola’s mechanical engineering standards to enable seamless cross-platform integration.
• Validation: Conduct functional tests and simulation studies for new launches, ensuring each innovation meets reliability and performance benchmarks before scale-up.

Sustain Technology Adoptions (20%)
• Manufacturing Integration: Collaborate with suppliers and manufacturing partners to ensure smooth production rollouts for new mechanical components and system updates.
• Data-Driven Improvements: Leverage data and insights to evaluate fleet performance, track reliability issues, and recommend new improvements to reduce service costs and downtime.
• Training & Handoff: Work with platform and boundary teams to transfer technical knowledge, ensuring efficient adoption of mechanical system updates.

Key Deliverables
• Component Validation Reports: Comprehensive testing data documenting performance, reliability, and readiness of core mechanical components for launch.
• Enhanced Documentation Library: Update and maintain the mechanical engineering repository to include the latest CAD drawings, validated designs, and requirements.
• Performance Metrics Reports: Provide regular updates on defect rates, fleet reliability, and energy efficiency improvements for critical stakeholders.

Skills & Competence
Required Skills & Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in a hands-on mechanical engineering role, preferably working with complex systems.
• Advanced proficiency in CAD (e.g., SolidWorks) and related engineering design tools.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges in subsystem designs.
• Knowledge of design-for-manufacturing and lifecycle management principles.
• Strong organizational skills with experience managing detailed technical documentation.

Preferred:
• Advanced Degree in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent advanced expertise gained through industry experience.
• Prior experience in beverage or food equipment technologies, understanding the unique requirements of quality, regulatory compliance, and performance optimization.
• Working knowledge of IoT systems, connectivity platforms, or advanced materials.
• Experience in scaling technologies through platform-based organizations or working in Agile-driven environments.
• Proven ability to influence without authority, leveraging relationships, technical credibility, and value creation to drive results across cross-functional teams.

Leadership Competencies
• Technology Vision & Pragmatism: Able to foresee industry shifts and identify how transformative technologies can be practically implemented.
• Platform-First Mindset: Develops solutions and standards with consideration for the needs of multiple product platforms, ensuring scalable deployment.
• Influence Through Value Delivery: Utilizes actionable outcomes, tangible benefits, and collaborative engagement to foster alignment without relying on formal authority.
• Collaborative Innovator: Builds bridges between innovation and execution teams, creating an environment that promotes shared learning and co-creation.
• Project Prioritization Skills: Objectively evaluates and terminates projects that are unlikely to transition effectively or add measurable value, ensuring optimal resource allocation and focus.

Success Measurement
• Platform Adoption: High percentage of platforms integrating innovations delivered by Core Engineering.
• Engineering Services Satisfaction: Positive feedback from platform teams on the quality and timeliness of support provided.
• IP Portfolio Growth: Number of patents/filed IPs reflecting advancements
• Reliability Improvement: Measurable performance increases in validated component technologies.
• Time-to-Adoption Efficiency: Reduction in time required to transfer proven technologies from initial concept to scaled platform integration.

What We Can Do For You
• Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
• Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.
• Our Purpose and Growth Culture: We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve.
We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do 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. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and
best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Pay Range:

$131,000 - $153,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

15

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do 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. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.