Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Sr Asset Leader - 2nd Technology

Kimberly-Clark Corporation • $127K — $157K *
Warren, RI 02885In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or relevant discipline; 10+ years of equivalent experience.
  • Significant experience in Operations, Business, Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, and/or Maintenance.
  • Strong understanding of operations' role in the Supply Chain.
  • Proficient in LEAN business practices and able to mentor others in problem-solving techniques.
  • Ability to build and manage a budget effectively.
  • Experience leading multi-functional teams in a proactive environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and support improvement of safety protocols and adherence to regulations.
  • Drive quality improvements in accordance with K-C's policies and regulatory compliance.
  • Develop people management systems to enhance team capabilities.
  • Oversee operations, reliability, and engineering to achieve cost management and efficiency.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver on strategic objectives and foster continuous improvement.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage without waiting periods.
  • Flexible savings and spending accounts for health care and dependent expenses.
  • Income protection insurance options in case of unforeseen events.
  • Support for continued education, adoption, relocation, or childcare needs.
Full Job Description
Sr Asset Leader - 2nd Technology

Job Description

As a Sr. Asset Leader, you will provide overall team leadership for your asset team in the areas of safety, quality, cost, productivity, continuous improvement, housekeeping/5S, good manufacturing practices (GMP), internal control, asset management, customer service, human resources and team capability development. This position drives continuous improvement on their assets through leadership of their Operations, Reliability and Engineering teams. You will also partner with other site resources (CI, Reliability, Eng, etc.) to deliver platform results.

In this role, you will:

Safety:
  • Support the loss control improvement process by championing and complying with critical safety rules.
  • Visibly demonstrate that safety is a core value by role modeling and ensuring compliance with safety procedures and maintaining a safe workplace.
  • Ensure that the development of processes, standards and equipment meets national, local and K-C safety codes, policies and guidelines.
  • Own development of safety improvement plans.
  • Ensure safety investigations are completed, and countermeasures are in place per incident investigations standard.
  • Ensure assets comply with pertinent housekeeping standards.
  • Ensure consumer safety requirements are met and strengthened.
  • Achieve KCNA specific health and safety objectives (i.e. EHS Maturity Score, URM/UHET)
  • Achieve KCNA specific environmental and sustainability objectives (energy, water, plastics, landfill)

Quality:
  • Demonstrate quality as a core value.
  • Responsible for understanding and holding team accountable for upholding K-C's Quality policy and standards.
  • Achieve and improve objectives around quality metrics (i.e. significant events, RFT, Cost of quality)
  • Understands and ensures compliance with applicable FDA and other regulatory agencies and codes.

People:
  • Build strong relationships and put systems in place to deliver sustainable year-over-year improvement for your asset platform
  • Manage teams in accordance with the principles and tenets of the plant's High Performance Work System and expected K-C Values: We Care, We Own, We Act and Ways of Working: Focus on Consumers, Play to Win, Move Fast and Grow our People.
  • Lead with high expectations around safety and team support.
  • Partner with your Talent Business Partners and Peer Resource Groups to have strong performance management processes, where coaching and mentoring for all team members is ongoing.
  • Collaborate with the other Asset Leaders at the site to lead succession planning for your hourly operations team members
  • Partner with the Plant Engineering & Reliability Manager to support succession planning for your engineering and reliability team members
  • Drive partnerships and collaboration with other plant teams such as Manufacturing Excellence, Reliability, Training 4 Excellence to build capability within the Operations team.
  • Collaborate with the site T4E team to ensure asset area is adhering to the training plan, training documentation is current and accessible and that team members are progressing to Intermediate and Advanced levels for the right skill mix
  • Willingly adopt and advance company policies and standards.
  • Establish clear and concise strategic goals; and assign the resources and priorities to achieve those goals.
  • Build Talent in your team's Continuous Improvement Capability such as: Lean Basics, Problem Solving, 5S, Leader Standard Work, Visual Management, Leader Standard work.
  • Drive cultural and business results improvement through development, ownership, and execution of Tactical Implementation Plans (TIPs) focusing on performance and health of their process and team, visibly remove barriers for completion of assigned work, and ensure sustainability and health of the process via ownership of the OPEX Health Check processes.
  • Foster a culture of belonging
  • Responsible for building talent of new or future operations leaders.
  • Develop long-term vision for platform beyond the TIPs.

Delivery/Cost:
  • Provide day-to-day direction to operations, reliability and engineering team members fostering the culture and principles of a High-Performance Work System.
  • Manage cost of manufacturing (i.e. operating supplies, waste, labor, maintenance, etc.). Develop strategy and tools to provide accurate forecasts and conformance to forecasted spending.
  • Accountable for asset reliability:
    • Asset unplanned delay plan and execution
    • Asset down planning, execution and reflection
    • Partner with plant leadership and support teams to deliver site strategic plan
    • Deliver reliability maturity improvement to plan
    • Support continuous improvement through problem solving unplanned delays based on triggers
    • Asset Maintenance round development, execution and continuous improvement
    • Autonomous Care
    • Reliability analytics
  • Capital projects: Influence project engineering team to utilize Design for Reliability concepts/standards and drive project to successful completion within budget.
  • Lead the team through utilization of LEAN, LSS and OPEX methodology to deliver business results.
  • Collaborate with planning on the production schedule, rates, and sequence to deliver customer service; and work towards cycle time reduction and conformance to source planning (CTSP). Understand directives and initiate changes to deliver results.
  • Partner with Logistics to understand impact of operations on downstream performance and customer demand in support of volume conformance metrics.
  • Use effective business communication appropriately with all stakeholders, corporate support teams, employees and external contacts.
  • Manage vendor/supplier relationships with a Total Cost of Ownership mindset.
  • Lead the development of department objectives and action plans for delivery.
  • Lead organizational change, build relationships, and drive performance.
  • Accountable for the capability development of team members. Coordinate with Training 4 Excellence to facilitate skills development.
  • Lead operations teams to support plant/regional/global continuous improvement efforts and initiatives.
  • Lead business update communications. Take information from key customers and present to the team.
  • May lead and establish standards for a process/framework (housekeeping, performance manager, etc.) for the facility.
  • Lead a site strategy as a key thinker.
  • Participate in recruiting activities as needed utilizing STAR interview techniques.
  • Develop and maintain a Fuel to Grow playbook with Financial Analysts, including Design to Value concepts.
  • Lead and drive grade change reduction efforts (SMED).
  • Develop a strong partnership with Staff Value Stream Leaders.


To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
  • Position typically requires a bachelor's in engineering, business or relevant discipline 10+ years of equivalent related experience.
  • The incumbent would typically have significant experience in Operations, Business, Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, and/or Maintenance.
  • Possess a strong understanding of operations' role in the Supply Chain.
  • Leverage and mentor Color Wheel concepts and ability to adjust leadership style.
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge in the people management and/or technical areas of expertise (or aptitude to learn) described in the role.
  • Incumbent would possess demonstrated ability to organize, influence and lead a multi-functional team and foster a proactive team environment.
  • Experience in multiple plants, product systems and staff experience, along with leadership of a non-exempt workforce is highly desired.
  • Work collaboratively and effectively with individuals across all levels of the organization.
  • Proficient in LEAN business practices. Can role model and teach 4 step simple problem solving, LSW, Visual Management, 5S.
  • Ability to build and manage a budget.


Working Conditions:
  • Normal scheduled hours will vary based on the need to support a 24/7 Operation.
  • Ability to work in a manufacturing environment.


Total Benefits:

Here are just a few of the benefits you'd enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

  • Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with 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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Primary Location
Warren Plant

Additional Locations

Worker Type
Employee

Worker Sub-Type
Regular

Time Type
Full time

About Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Kimberly-Clark is leading the world in essentials for a better life. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with nearly 58,000 employees worldwide and manufacturing operations in 37 countries, Kimberly-Clark posted sales of $21.1 billion in 2012. Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Every day, almost a quarter of the world's population trust K-C's brand and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex®, Scott®, Viva® Towels, Cottonelle®, Huggies®, Pull-Ups®, Goodnites®, U by Kotex®, Kotex®, Poise®, and Depend®, Kimberly-Clark holds the No. 1 or 2 share position in more than 80 countries.

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Learn more about Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Size
45,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.8 billion
Industry
Food & Beverages
Net Income
$2.3 billion
Founded
1872
5 Year Trend
+1.2%
Revenue
$19.1 billion
NASDAQ
KMB
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