Senior Asset Leader

Senior Asset 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. 

Please note: This role is located at the Owensboro Mill location.  Full Kimberly-Clark relocation benefits available.

In this role, you will:

Provide effective leadership coaching, supervision, and coordination for asset team (across five crews) to ensure that mill objectives are met as outlined for safety, quality, cost, delivery and people development.   

CUSTOMERS

Mill Leadership, Product System Leaders, Engineering, the Operations Teams

SCOPE

Incumbent provides leadership to achieve team objectives for Recycled Fiber area. The incumbent also provides leadership, independent decision-making, and other supervision for department wide project assignments, direction, assigning, and coaching for operators, as well as indirect leadership for other functional areas that support the specified area. This role will be the primary resource responsible for establishing annual operating budgets, delivering key performance indicators and continuously building technician capability to establish and sustain standards. Additionally, this role will have Direct Reports of approx. 56 Hourly Technicians and 2 Salaried Professionals                                               

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES and EXPECTATIONS

• Maintain a positive work environment to promote safety, housekeeping, and human relations
• Ensure the economic production of quality products and services.
• Ensure that assets are properly managed and maintained
• Promotes continuous improvement in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and
• team member engagement
• Ensure adherence to federal, state, and local laws, corporate policies, work rules, and mill standards.
• Actively demonstrate Safety as a value through active leadership, positive influence of mindsets and by identifying and addressing risks to prevent loss to our people, processes and materials, while ensuring compliance with OSHA regulations, corporate policies, and plant guidelines. 
• Establish plans to deliver and continuously improve key performance indicators in the areas of Safety, Quality, Deliver, Cost and People Development, and provide leadership, supervision, and coordination to ensure that crews establish and sustain respective standards
• Strengthen communication and accountability of self-managed teams in respective area.
• Maintain positive employee relations to enhance continued operation of a successful mill. 
• Develop plans to continuously build technician capability; provide coaching to crews and functional leaders for career development. 
• Engage in open and timely dialogue, through the use and exercise of independent judgment, with asset team to provide supervision, coaching, progressive discipline and/or praise, and other feedback to employees on job performance, career growth, opportunities for development and recognition to reinforce growth and modify employee behavior. 
• Provide leadership and input to ensure the organization attracts, hires, 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. 
• Lead lean capability development and utilization of lean tools; continuously evolve the Daily Accountability Process, Standard Work & Leader Standard Work.
• Provide effective leadership and supervision for maintenance work performed and/or mechanical process changes made in their area of responsibility to ensure the least possible amount of downtime and ensure efficient operations. 
• Evaluate recommendations from engineering sources for product or process innovations to ensure changes compatible with operating goals. 
• Develop and ensure the implementation of special plant and corporate projects to meet cost management objectives, increase company profitability, and meet changing production requirements. 
• Ensure the effective application of internal control systems and procedures applicable to the functional areas of responsibility by proving management direction and support to the implementation, maintenance, and audit of corporate and pl