You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your ROLE role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.
Your Key Responsibilities Include:
Safety:
Implement loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value.
Support and Champion safety in your manufacturing site and team by driving educational and behavioral processes to a world class level, through the application of OpEx, LSS, T4E, and P2030 tools.
Lead your team to complete safety objectives and ensure a safe working environment.
Quality:
Champion and support OPEX, T4E, Lean Six Sigma, and P2030 programs and processes as the way to deliver quality and process capability improvements.
Provide resources and systems to align equipment, products, processes, materials, systems, and procedures to achieve business objectives related to quality.
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
People: Focus on Organizational Transformation and Culture:
Manage yourself in accordance with the One K-C Behaviors Ways of Working and values.
Lead your site’s organizational transformation
Develop and execute an overall site plan that aligns to the KCNA strategy to drive a cultural transformation; increasing the engagement and enablement of all team members.
Identify and drive transformation that is inclusive of front-line and support organizations to increase alignment towards achievement of aspirational performance targets.
Support Sector development and application of an Organizational Transformation Strategy, including owning select sector-wide work elements.
Incorporate organizational transformation thinking into your team’s processes and tools.
Delivery:
Provide strategic and tactical leadership to build capability of all team members at the site through the Training 4 Excellence program.
Provide leadership support to your T4E leader in their efforts to develop, facilitate and manage the site’s training strategies, including providing leadership to the mill training lead and training coordinators. Training strategies to include the certification process, long-term planning, short-term training identified through problem solving and holistic oversight for the health of training programs utilized to drive capability building (i.e. reliability training, hourly development, 1 Technical Community, etc.).
Ensure respective team members are active participants in KCNA networks in the areas they support, sharing learnings and adopting and applying one best way standards and process.
Develop, facilitate and manage your site’s Operational Excellence (OPEX) strategies, including providing leadership to the mill OPEX change agents.
Coordinates site roll out plan for OPEX including resource requirements, and leadership of overall change management aspects.
Develops tools and processes to support the Operational Excellence transformation, as a countermeasure to an identified problem.
Facilitates Kaizen events within the Mill.
Leads, mentors and supports entire team in execution of the Lean focus improvement content..
Provide continuous feedback to leadership team, consistent with OPEX mindsets, the 6 KC Behaviors Ways of Working and Culture of Accountability.
Provide leadership support to the Lean Six Sigma leader in their efforts to develop, facilitate and manage the site’s LSS Strategies.
Drive standardization, simplification and breakthrough initiatives through C/I, Lean Six Sigma, and CoA practices, including problem solving for site-wide or system-wide issues.
Provide education on Lean tools, processes and thinking at the senior leadership level at your site, and support your teams as they provide the same education to all other site personnel.
Ensure related activities/programs (e.g. centerlining, TPM, RFS) are interlinked to provide a coherent framework to the mill.
Ensure consistent application of Sector framework standards for management systems and processes.
Track and report a scorecard of Organizational Transformation and Operational Excellence/CI/Cost Savings measures.
Provide leadership support to the P2030 leader in their efforts to develop, facilitate and manage the site’s P2030 Strategies.
Provides standard mechanism to track and report scorecard of Operational Excellence transformation measure.
Ensures all barriers to the acceleration change plan are identified and problem solved to achieve delivery of the implementation plan.
Assists in prioritization of workload and ensure discipline to the mindsets & behaviors within the management infrastructure.
Supports the introduction of management processes to ensure sustainability.
About You
You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You Also Possess:
Position requires knowledge and experience typically associated with a bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of related experience.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in a high-speed industrial manufacturing environment/plan experience
Minimum 5 years’ experience in a CI/Lean and/or OPEX environment
The incumbent would typically have significant experience in Engineering, Operations, Lean Manufacturing, and Maintenance and be very familiar with the application of Lean Six Sigma/CI/OPEX/P2030 tools and theory.
Possesses strong understanding of the broader business and organization and can relate and connect the CI and Capabilities organization to it.
Incumbent would possess demonstrated ability to organize and lead a multi-functional team and foster a proactive team environment.
Experience with developing and cascading large-scale strategy, demonstrated problem-solving mindset, strong project management skills, and proficiency with MS Suite are highly desired
Experience in multiple mills, product systems and staff experience, leadership of both exempt and non-exempt workforces are highly desired
Strong understanding of Adult Learning processes, LEAN/CI and Six Sigma thinking, systems and tools is highly desired
Experience in change management in addition to coaching and mentoring at all levels to drive collaboration across teams and functions is highly desired
About Us
Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day. And it takes the right people, in the right jobs and the right places, to make that happen.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform—so what can you do with that? There’s no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.
In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.
You’re looking to make a difference. When and where it works best for you. And at Kimberly Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works, flexible work (hybrid) arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.
Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options. No waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.
Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.
To Be Considered
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And finally, the fine print…
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 role is available for candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. K-C will not provide relocation support for this role.
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.
