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 this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
In this role, you will:

ABOUT US

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

THIS ROLE IS AN ON-SITE POSITION AT OUR HENDERSONVILLE, NC PLANT. KIMBERLY-CLARK RELOCATION BENEFITS AVAILABLE.

Responsibilities:

• 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 and T4E tools.
• Develops, facilitates, and manages Operational Excellence improvement plans for focus areas
• Develops and executes site strategy for OPEX implementation in collaboration and partnership with Site Leadership and KCNA SC partners.
• Leads the facility in annual strategy deployment, developing the capability of key thinkers, and ensuring management infrastructure is in place to achieve goals.
• Facilitates Kaizen events within the Mill
• Ensures existing management infrastructures (i.e. Centerlining, Tier Meetings and KPI’s, Leader Standard Work) are interlinked to provide a coherent framework in the Mill
• Provide continuous feedback to Leadership team, consistent with OPEX Mindsets, the K-C Ways of Working, and the Culture of Accountability
• Facilitates, promotes, and supports OPEX, LEAN, and T4E cultural development
• Coaches and develops hourly team in the use of LEAN techniques and thinking
• Uses LEAN assessment tools to identify opportunities and gap areas
• Facilitates the development, introduction, and tracking of standard work for leaders within focus areas; Identifies capability gaps and prioritizes activities to address these gaps
• Develops, leads, and improves the Training For Excellence (T4E) program for the site including work direction to the hourly training team
• Understand the needs of the Customer (our Employees) and design the Training program to meet those needs.
• Support the development and application of framework standards for management systems and processes to ensure compliance with Plan, Do, Check, and Adjust
• Provide standard mechanism to track and report scorecard of Operational Excellence transformation measures
• Understand the P2030 expectations and incorporate standards where applicable across the site.
• Provide cost leadership for the site including the identification and leadership of cost savings projects as well as tracking of mill projects via the WAVE tool.
• Ensure respective team members are active participants in regional networks in the areas they support, sharing learnings and adopting and applying one best way standards and processes

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. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited College or University Minimum
• 8+ years’ experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment
• 5+ years’ experience in a Lean and/or Six Sigma environment
• 3+ years’ experience as a Team Leader in Operations
• Strong understanding of the value and application of Operational Excellence
• Strong understanding of the value and application of Servant Leadership
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Offic