Business Unit Leader

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Your role at Clorox:

Responsible for Safety, Quality and Production requirements on assigned packaging lines in the plant to include personnel, planning, budget, and execution.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, Coach and Develop direct reports and others to ensure Forest Park has the required bench strength to supply personnel to the PSO organization while continuously delivering the plant metrics and meeting the individual’s career interests

• Plant Vision Work:  Help develop and drive the Plant Vision, Mission and Guiding Principles to ensure the plant’s culture and long range plans meet the business needs

• The professional in this role will provide day-to-day leadership for manufacturing operations through monitoring of total production process to ensure that safety, quality, production, and cost goals are met.

• Provide appropriate training to operating personnel to ensure that the necessary skills are developed to meet business needs.

• Support and reinforce the implementation of Continuous Improvement Process to deliver measurable and sustainable improvements.

• Deliver shared base business requirements and operating results including Recordable Injury Rates, departmental cost, labor productivity, inventory management, efficiency, and unplanned downtime.

• Excel in leading teams and individuals through problem solving, prioritizing issues and opportunities.

• Manage Equipment Related opportunities through data management system

• Manage Daily Safety, Quality , Housekeeping and environmental requirements for designated areas

• Manage Personnel Time keeping system and payroll for direct reports

• Manage Continuous Improvement Processes that support Plant / Department metrics

• Complete all performance management (PMPA) requirements throughout the year

• Support and provide direction with annual hourly level evaluation

• EM: Ensure adequate EM is applied to all major projects, including material changes and new product introductions to enable vertical start-ups.

• Work to develop safety and quality ownership in Associates

• Support Rewards and Recognition programs

• GEMBA walks on a daily basis to foster plant leadership

• People Management & Span of Control of up to 32 Hourly employees (equivalent to 2 areas of control)

• Drive Plant metric to glide path

• Meet all plant and company metric goals for Safety, Quality and Line efficiency

• Drive technical improvements and maintenance upgrades

• Ensure Operational Readiness requirements are met on all projects

• Maintains quality standards through support of QIR and QN processes

• Ensures WPO and housekeeping standards are sustained

• Ensures line operator PMs are completed and TECO’ed to standard

• Assists Maintenance in planning and prioritizing maintenance work

• Lead loss discussion of business unit area in Daily Review meetings

• Manage changeover, startup, and shutdown processes to standards.

• Supports development of production schedule and achievement of schedule adherence

• Works with other resources to improve line / equipment performance to goal

• Support WCO improvement activities for business unit within standards

• Works closely with T&Q pillar team to identify needs and address opportunities

• Supports plant and corporate capital projects

• Participate / Lead Packaging EO, EQ, POM, and PQ

• Develop and maintains process to document operating task in JIB format, working in association with T&Q

• Develop and track progress against the Loss Elimination Action Plan (LEAP) for assigned business unit

• Managing cost and deliver OEE glide-path.

• Drive skill block system alignment and completion by Associates, in junction with the T&Q function

• Ensure support for both the operations and the operators in getting time to complete training requirements

• Mentor Associates on Leadership skill requirements and with root cause analysis to problem solving

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