Leads, directs, and controls the day-to-day activities of the Paris, TX manufacturing facility to achieve the short and medium-term financial and operating objectives set by the overall organization business plan. Drives improvement through execution of Global Supply Chain tools and methods. Leads the transformation of the workforce to a highly enabled and engaged one. It is the responsibility of the Plant Manager to ensure production meets output and at desired quality for the lowest possible cost working within the standards of corporate, state, and federal policy. The Plant Manager will direct, coach and mentor staff to devise methods to use the plant's human capital and capital resources to best meet production goals. Budgetary responsibility includes oversight of the facility's processes and activities to achieve KPI's across multiple categories including safety, quality, labor, waste, costs, efficiencies, etc.
ESSENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Management
Provide overall leadership and direction to plant managerial and hourly teams in all aspects of the production operation including production, warehousing and shipping operations, maintenance, capital projects and continuous improvement.
Anticipate trends in organization's market trends, raw material purchasing price fluctuations, community factors, or associate cultural factors which may influence operating activities.
Contributes to achieving production objectives through coordinating workflow and product quality.
Monitor departmental performance against goals to ensure that progress is being made, and that corrective action is taken if necessary.
Anticipate and provide direction on future capital projects and equipment needs.
Maintain effective community and government relations to assure the early identification of potential problems and maintain and build Kimberly-Clark’s image in the community.
Safety
Lead loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value. Provide resources, develop safety systems and maintain those systems in accordance with Kimberly-Clark loss control management to achieve a safe working environment. Establish and ensure achievement of safety objectives and fully comply with corporate loss management policies as well as government safety and health regulations. Consistently follow the KCNA Supply Chain Roles & Responsibilities Instruction and ensure all team members adhere to the Loss Prevention & Control Leadership Matrix. Maintain awareness within group members of the personal and work dangers from improper use of drug and alcohol. Deal quickly within corporate guidelines, with any safety, drug or alcohol issues.
Ensure a safe work environment by ensuring safe work behaviors, safe work conditions and, corrects any deficiencies in a timely manner.
Through subordinates, supervisors and managers, assures employee engagement, safety, quality, customer service, cost, and production objectives are met or exceeded.
Monitor building security and maintain good housekeeping
Provide training avenues to employees as needed leveraging Safety, SOP's, and user manuals.
Drive behavioral based safety program to change current culture and results.
Operations
Takes complete ownership and accountability for overall plant operations with a desire to win.
Lead quality and continuous improvement initiatives in support of operations. Take leadership role by training and implementing continuous improvement efforts within the team.
Provide Lean leadership and thinking to the facility teams to ensure accomplishment of facility and KCNA sector objectives and to create an environment of continuous improvement.
Manage the operation so that the working environment is maintained at the highest level of safety, housekeeping, sanitation, appearance, and physical condition to ensure compliance with corporate policies, government regulations, and good manufacturing practices.
Identify quality issues and develop solutions to maximize first-time quality and minimize waste.
Work with operators and vendors to improve raw and packaging materials performance.
Responsible for achievement of department efficiency goals, and standards.
Ensure maintenance and production, track downtime and develop and implement plans with operators and mechanics to improve line performance.
Ensure that the facility operates within corporate and governmental guidelines.
Ensure compliance with all quality requirements to protect customers, consumers; including all state and federal regulations.
Monitor key performance indicators to assess labor and variance to budget, productivity, and schedule adherence.
People
Drive positive employee relations through Employee engagement and enablement activities.
Provide leadership, guidance, and training to employees by developing and implementing plans to improve abilities.
Directly support the development of internal talent in preparation for future advancement and promotional opportunities.
Coach, motivate, train and effectively manage the performance of plant managerial and support personnel.
Ensure efficient use of resources to maximize labor savings.
Develop skills in the operations group to build quality into the production process.
Work closely with quality manager to review product consistency in order to determine areas of improvement,
Work closely with Human Resources Manager in implementing and adhering all employees to policies and processes.
Responsible for enforcing consistent, fair and inclusive employment practices, legal and corporate compliance, as well as behaviors reflective of the company's commitment to diversity.
Lead direct reports and partner with indirect functional staff, e.g. finance, continuous improvement and human resources to implement policies and procedures.
Organize, staff, direct, develop, and motivate, consistent with appropriate affirmative action programs.
Develop and maintain a favorable employee relations climate that will result in all Associates considering their facility a fair and equitable place of employment with opportunity for personal development and advancement.
Provide leadership to ensure the organization attracts, develops, and retains the best people and fosters an environment which motivates a diverse team to fully use its capabilities in achieving desired business results.
Establish community relations to ensure that Kimberly-Clark is perceived as a good corporate citizen and a preferred employer.
Attributes & Behaviors
Build Trust I assume positive intent in others and welcome different perspectives and debate. I will commit to a group decision even if it was not my preferred option.
Sharing the Vision Vividly communicating a compelling view of the future state in a way that helps others understand and feel how business outcomes will be different when the vision and values become a reality.
Optimizing Diversity Making decisions and initiating action to ensure that organizational systems and policies leverage the capabilities and insights of individuals with diverse backgrounds, styles, abilities, and motivation.
Modeling Openness & Courage Gaining other people’s trust by demonstrating openness and honesty, behaving consistently, and acting in accordance with moral, ethical, professional, and organizational guidelines.
Make Decisions I make decisions in as short a time as possible, involving just the people necessary, and celebrate others who take smart risks.
Establishing Strategic Direction Establishing and committing to a long-term business direction based on an analysis of systemic information and consideration of resources, market drivers, and organizational values.
Empowerment/Delegation Sharing authority and responsibilities with others to move decision-making and accountability downward through the organization, enable individuals to stretch their capabilities, and accomplish the business unit’s strategic priorities.
Win Consistently I consistently ask, “What else can I do?” to exceed expectations and deliver the overall best results for the enterprise.
Driving Execution & Accountability Setting high standards of accountability and performance for self and others by translating strategic priorities into operational reality; aligning communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.
Think Customer I anticipate customer needs and drive innovation for their benefit. I adopt ideas wherever possible to get innovation to the customer faster.
Customer Focus Ensuring that the customer perspective (internal, external and/or consumer) is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs.
Creating Innovative Growth Using one’s understanding of key market and global drivers to create and seize business opportunities, expand into new markets, and launch innovative products and service
Continuously Improve I reach across boundaries for new ideas to improve our business.
Cultivating Networks Initiating and maintaining strategic relationships with stakeholders inside and outside the organization (e.g., customers, peers, cross-functional partners, external vendors, and alliance partners) to advance business goals.
Leading Change & Improvement Identifying and driving organizational and cultural changes needed to adapt strategically to changing market demands, changing demographics, technology, and internal initiatives; catalyzing new approaches to improve results by transforming organizational culture, systems, or products/services.
Build Talent I am accountable to attract, develop and retain a diverse team who are highly engaged and enabled. I also own my own development.
Continuous Learning Actively identifying new areas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application.
Building Organizational Talent Establishing systems and processes to attract, develop, engage, and retain talented individuals; creating a work environment where people can realize their full potential, thus allowing the organization to meet current and future business challenges.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Work is typically performed in an office environment.
Frequent visits to the manufacturing floor may include:
Must be able to climb stairs, occasionally.
Must be able to stand, stoop and walk, occasionally to frequently.
Must be able to sit sustained periods of time, frequently.
Must be able to wear protective clothing -hard hat, glasses, hearing protection, steel toe shoes, hair/beard nets frequently.
Must have ability to carry up to 15lbs., occasionally.
Must be able to balance or maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow or slippery surfaces.
Role is based at the Paris, Texas USA production facility
QUALIFICATIONS
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree Engineering, Operations, or related business field.
Minimum 7-10 years' leadership level experience leading large scale change and leading teams
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred: 2 plus years of management experience in the manufacturing industry.
Demonstrated ability to innovate and create strategies that significantly improve practices that enable the organization to achieve business and technical results.
Excellent communication, influencing, and leadership skills at all levels, and competence in making timely, effective, principles-based decisions.
Demonstrated ability to build credibility and confidence with a wide variety of leaders including internal stakeholders, customers and vendors and be seen as a trusted adviser.
Experience with manpower planning, recruiting and budgeting/forecasting.
Unquestioned integrity with assertiveness, presence, and confidence.
Demonstrated advanced customer focus, judgment, analytical skills, critical thinking and communication skills (verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal).
Strong business and financial acumen, including strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and business analysis skills.
Demonstrated ability and experience working effectively in a self-directed, proactive, results-oriented, complex, fast paced environment across all levels.
Demonstrated experience in driving initiatives, holding self and team accountable for results and ensuring continuous improvement.
Working knowledge of SAP ERP and WMS.
Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people - nearly a quarter of the world's population - trust K-C brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene, and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds No.1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries. With more than 140 years of history of innovation, we believe in recruiting the best people and empowering them do their best work. If fresh thinking and a passion to win inspire you, come Unleash Your Power at Kimberly-Clark.
For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
This position may require a post-offer/pre-hire Physical Abilities Test (PAT) to confirm that individuals are able to perform the essential functions of the job.
K-C requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event an applicant does not have current work authorization, K-C will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.
This position is subject to drug and alcohol testing, including pre-employment testing.
Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:
K-C will support in country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role, including assistance to obtain proper work authorization. The benefits provided will be per the terms of K-C’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will decided in K-C’s sole discretion.
