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Digital Manufacturing Leader

Kimberly-Clark
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Feb 2026
💰 $143,740/yr($116,380/yr$143,740/yr)

About the role

Digital Manufacturing Leader

Job Description

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. 

This role is responsible for the digital manufacturing strategy execution at the site level, in alignment with the KCNA Digital Strategy, as well as effectively leading business objectives for the site. The incumbent will work with project teams comprised of employees from multiple disciplines.  This role will have interaction across sites and opportunities for involvement in broad based business projects.  Objectives typically are focused at the plant level for safety, quality, continuous improvement, productivity, cost, internal control, asset management, and team capability development, but should drive standardization across KCNA. This role is responsible for a complex asset base due to the number of assets, number of employees, asset complexity and/or business criticality. This role may also own a plant-wide process or standard.

 

In this role, you will:

  • Serves as key strategy owner for implementing digital programs for sustaining the long-term growth of the K-C digital manufacturing strategy; Develops, advises, and recommends long term resolutions to systemic manufacturing problems.

  • Lead as technical expert for major digital systems, processes and capabilities (i.e. SMOM, EWM, etc.); Champion & support mobile digital applications (i.e. Poka, SchedulePro); Drive continuous improvement and change management within their system(s) of responsibility to drive efficiency and effectiveness improvements across the organization.

  • Analyze the data structure, calculations, and workflow within their major plant systems to leverage, integrate, and optimize systems and people across the supply chain.

  • Provide analytical support for the data contained within and generated by the respective manufacturing system.; Act as site lead for deployment of SMOM (Smart Manufacturing Operations Management) system, ensuring the success by providing technical expertise and effective facilitation of the process; Develop and maintain data flows into SMOM (manual entries, PLC inputs, etc.) for generating information (reports, dashboards etc.)

  • Support development and implementation of plans/programs for sustaining the long-term growth of SMOM to meet sector objectives; Provide technical and operational expertise to achieve quick and timely solutions to SMOM related problems within all site asset team areas.

  • Collaborate and/or solves complex manufacturing issues and provides digital solutions within the facility; Active in regional communities of practice for best practice sharing of digital technologies, concepts, and tools.

  • Maintain all relevant system documentation, ensuring it's updated, accessible, and compliant with sector standards.

  • Communicate (through monthly reports, outstanding project lists, task status summaries, etc.) all relevant MES issues to provide information to key stakeholders.

  • Drive improved visibility of data for faster decision making for asset teams, engineers, and site leadership through all digital platforms; Build organizational capability in digital manufacturing through key user training and support.

  • Coaches and mentors manufacturing personnel Working knowledge of infrastructure hardware components, Servers, Networking, Firewalls. Experience of scanner / handheld & labelling technologies.

 

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.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

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