Sr. Asset Leader (Loudon,TN.)

Sr. Asset Leader (Loudon,TN.)

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. 

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 counter measures 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 objectives around quality metrics (i.e. significant events, RFT, Cost of quality)
• Understands and ensures compliance with applicable regulatory agencies and codes. 

People:

• Build strong relationships across the Plant teams to deliver continuous improvement.
• Manage teams in accordance with the 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 to have strong performance management processes, where coaching and mentoring for all team members is ongoing.
• Collaborate with the operations teams at the site to lead succession planning for your hourly operations team members
• Partner with the Plant Reliability Leader to support succession planning for your hourly reliability team members
• Partner with the Plant Engineering Manager to support succession planning for your engineering team members
• Drive partnerships and collaboration with other plant teams such as CI, 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 Certified and Mastery 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.  
• Build capability and put systems in place to deliver sustainable year over year improvement.
• Develop long-term vision for platform beyond the TIPs.

Delivery/Cost:

• Provide day-to-day leadership to operations, reliability and engineering team members.
• 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.
• Own reliability for assets:
  • 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 delay based on triggers
  • Asset Maintenance round development, execution