Sr Asset Leader - 1st Technology

Sr Asset Leader - 1st Technology

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 position provides overall team leadership for their asset team in the areas of safety, quality, cost, productivity, continuous improvement, housekeeping/5S, good manufacturing practices (GMP), internal control, asset management, customer service, human resources and team capability development. This position drives continuous improvement on their assets through leadership of their Operations, Reliability and Engineering teams.  This person will also partner with other site resources to deliver platform results.

Incumbent will set objectives that will have a direct and significant impact on plant and sector results and in the delivery of customer service for Kimberly-Clark.

Scope:

Incumbent reports to the site Operations Manager. This role is responsible to effectively lead business objectives for the assigned assets.  This role will have interaction across business sectors and opportunities for involvement in broad-based business projects.  Objectives typically are focused at the department and asset level for safety, quality, GMP, housekeeping, customer service, continuous improvement, productivity, cost, internal control, asset management, human resources and team capability development.

This role is responsible for a more complex asset base with either number of assets, number of employees, asset complexity and/or business criticality. Incumbent determines plant programs and projects needed to accomplish the objectives of the business units; ensure the effective and cost-efficient execution of these programs. The Asset Leader will work with project teams compiled of employees from multiple disciplines; Set priorities, prepare and administer total budget and participate in long-range planning

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

People:

• Build strong relationships and put systems in place to deliver sustainable year-over-year improvement for your asset platform
• Manage teams in accordance with the principles and tenets of the plant’s High Performance Work System and 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 and Peer Resource Groups to have strong performance management processes, where coaching and mentoring for all team members is ongoing.
• Collaborate with the other Asset Leaders at the site to lead succession planning for your hourly operations team members
• Partner with the Plant Engineering & Reliability Manager to support succession planning for your engineering and reliability team members
• Drive partnerships and collaboration with other plant teams such as Manufacturing Excellence, Reliability, Training 4 Excellence to build capability within the Operations team.
• Collaborate with the site T4E team to ensure asset area is adhering