Sr Asset Leader - 2nd Technology

Job Description

Job Description

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story.

Ready to take the next step in your leadership journey? As a Sr. Asset Leader, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU . This role is a critical part of our operations leadership pipeline—a steppingstone toward Product System Leadership and, ultimately, future Plant Management opportunities. You’ll gain hands-on experience managing assets in a high-speed manufacturing environment while building the leadership skills that set you apart.

Your growth matters to us, and we’ll invest in it through structured development programs and exposure to diverse operations. Flexibility and mobility are essential - willingness to relocate opens doors to new plants, new challenges, and new opportunities to make an impact. If you’re ready to lead with vision, embrace continuous improvement, and take ownership of your career trajectory, this is where your future begins.

As a Sr. Asset Leader, you will provide overall team leadership for your 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.  You will also partner with other site resources (CI, Reliability, Eng, etc.) to deliver platform results.

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 to the training plan, training documentation is current and accessible and that team members are progressing to Intermediate and Advanced 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.  
• Develop long-term vision for platform beyond the TIPs.

Delivery/Cost:

• Provide day-to-day direction to operations, reliability and engineering team members fostering the culture and principles of a High-Performance Work System.
• 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.
• Accountable for asset reliability:
  • 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 delays based on triggers
  • Asset Maintenance round development, execution and continuous improvement
  • Autonomous Care
  • Reliability analytics
• Capital projects: Influence project engineering team to utilize Design for Reliability concepts/standards and drive project to successful completion within budget.
• Lead the team through utilization of LEAN, LSS and OPEX methodology to deliver business results.
• Collaborate with planning on the production schedule, rates, and sequence to deliver customer service; and work towards cycle time reduction and conformance to source planning (CTSP). Understand directives and initiate changes to deliver results.
• Partner with Logistics to understand impact of operations on downstream performance and customer demand in support of volume conformance metrics. 
• Use effective business communication appropriately with all stakeholders, corporate support teams, employees and external contacts.
• Manage vendor/supplier relationships with a Total Cost of Ownership mindset.
• Lead the development of department objectives and action plans for delivery.
• Lead organizational change, build relationships, and drive performance.
• Accountable for the capability development of team members. Coordinate with Training 4 Excellence to facilitate skills development.
• Lead operations teams to support plant/regional/global continuous improvement efforts and initiatives.
• Lead business update communications. Take information from key customers and present to the team.
• May lead and establish standards for a process/framework (housekeeping, performance manager, etc.) for the facility.
• Lead a site strategy as a key thinker.
• Participate in recruiting activities as needed utilizing STAR interview techniques.
• Develop and maintain a Fuel to Grow playbook with Financial Analysts, including Design to Value concepts.
• Lead and drive grade change reduction efforts (SMED). 
• Develop a strong partnership with Staff Value Stream Leaders.

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.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In one of our manufacturing roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Position typically requires a bachelor’s in engineering, business or relevant discipline 10+ years of equivalent related experience.
• The incumbent would typically have significant experience in Operations, Business, Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, and/or Maintenance.
• Possess a strong understanding of operations’ role in the Supply Chain.
• Leverage and mentor Color Wheel concepts and ability to adjust leadership style.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge in the people management and/or technical areas of expertise (or aptitude to learn) described in the role.
• Incumbent would possess demonstrated ability to organize, influence and lead a multi-functional team and foster a proactive team environment.
• Experience in multiple plants, product systems and staff experience, along with leadership of a non-exempt workforce is highly desired.
• Work collaboratively and effectively with individuals across all levels of the organization.
• Proficient in LEAN business practices. Can role model and teach 4 step simple problem solving, LSW, Visual Management, 5S.
• Ability to build and manage a budget.

Working Conditions:

• Normal scheduled hours will vary based on the need to support a 24/7 Operation.
• Ability to work in a manufacturing environment.

Total Benefits:

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see

• Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
• Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.
• Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
• Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

To Be Considered:
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And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position. 

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check. 

Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark’s sole discretion.

This is a M3/Grade 8 and compensation may vary based on location. 

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At Kimberly-Clark, pay is just one aspect of our total rewards package, which also includes a variety of benefits and opportunities to achieve, thrive and grow. Along with base pay, this position offers eligibility for a target bonus and a comprehensive benefits suite, including our 401(k) and Profit Sharing plan. The anticipated base pay range for this role is provided above for a fully qualified hire. Actual pay will depend on several factors, such as location, role, skills, performance, and experience. Please note that the stated pay range applies to US locations only.