Reliability Manager

Reliability Manager

Job Description

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: this is your opportunity to explore uncharted questions, engineer innovative solutions, advance scientific understanding, and constantly push the boundaries of what's possible. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In this role, you'll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

About You

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.

• Report to the Engineering and Reliability Sr Manager.
• The Reliability Manager is responsible for technically complex processes, plant equipment, and facilities.
• Provide strategic leadership for maintenance skilled resources and reliability engineering groups to deliver improved asset performance.
• Implement loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value.
• Develop and maintain safety systems in accordance with Kimberly-Clark loss control management and lead your team to complete safety objectives and ensure a safe working environment.
• Support improvement initiatives towards process capability and precision maintenance work execution.
• Provide resources and systems to align equipment, products, processes, materials, systems, and procedures to achieve business objectives.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Manage yourself in accordance with the One Kimberly-Clark Behaviors and values.
• Lead and develop the mill Stores and Reliability team (Stores, maintenance technicians, planners, reliability engineer) - including performance manager accountabilities, resource sharing approach, skill development, and career guidance.
• Lead the site succession planning for all reliability technicians at the site.
• Ensure reliability tools and standards are implemented consistently across the site.
• Build the reliability knowledge and capability of others in the manufacturing facility.
• Accountable for understanding and assuring cost effective resource capacity allocations. (i.e. managing the right number of technical resources so that effective reliability services are provided to the organization).
• Lead, resource, develop, and inspire the reliability team to drive a breakthrough step change in asset performance with a principal focus on equipment reliability resulting in an improvement to safety, quality, OEE, and to reduce maintenance costs to world class levels.
• Lead, develop, and inspire the stores team to continuously drive improvements in safety, quality, inventory level, delivery and cost reduction to best support your sites assets and teams to provide world class service.
• Work in partnership with the facility leadership to achieve facility objectives. Provide governance to all established reliability processes, ensure continual improvement, and build/establish new processes. Ensure we are following standards for all Reliability systems. Determine and track investments in reliability technology, systems and methods to insure maximum ROI.
• Work in partnership with the staff Reliability and Enterprise Supply Chain Reliability Team to achieve facility and sector/supply chain objectives. Align your team and objectives to the Sector strategy and standards. Represent your manufacturing site within the sector and corporate technical community and at all Global Reliability Network meetings and activities.
• Champion the maintenance budget process and foster partnerships in the cross functional accountability of adhering to budgetary objectives. Manage routine check and adjust process associated with the budget and based on mill spending and business demands. Participate in the capital planning process.
• Manage a skills matrix for the maintenance organization and skills development to provide improved reliability performance and service.
• Responsible for delivering 3% year-on-year reduction in spending by embracing and fostering a culture of loss prevention and control to drive continuous improvement in the reduction of breakdowns and other losses across the site asset base.
• Lead the stores team to ensure accurate inventory in the right amount to ensure costs associated with inventory are at the right level.
• Place emphasis on CFI's and Internal Controls.
• Own and deploy the site reliability strategy, ensuring alignment with Mill Strategy Deployment (SD), Product System priorities, and long-range business plans.
• Provide leadership for integration of reliability practices into daily operations, including asset strategies, maintenance execution, capital planning, and OPEX/CI routines.
• Lead the development and execution of a multi-year reliability roadmap with clearly defined initiatives, owners, milestones, and performance targets for asset availability, OEE, and maintenance effectiveness.
• Establish and sustain governance routines (review cadences, KPIs, standard work) that drive accountability, cross-functional alignment, and continuous improvement in reliability performance.
• Partner closely with Operations, Engineering, and Central Stores to ensure reliability priorities are embedded in production plans, outage planning, and resource allocation.
• Ensure reliability and maintenance capabilities support safe, compliant, and stable 24/7 operations, including critical asset risk management and emergency response readiness.
• Drive sustainable cost improvement through disciplined maintenance strategies, optimized use of internal and external resources, and elimination of chronic losses and unplanned downtime.
• Serve as the mill's primary reliability liaison to regional, sector, and corporate reliability networks, ensuring adoption of standards, sharing of best practices, and benchmarking against peer sites.
• Build and maintain a healthy technical talent pipeline, including apprenticeship health, skills matrices, succession planning, and long-term capability development for the mill.

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

• Position requires knowledge and experience typically associated with a bachelor's or advanced degree in engineering or relevant scientific discipline and 10+ years of manufacturing related experience.
• The incumbent would typically have significant experience in Engineering, Operations, Lean Manufacturing, and Maintenance.
• Possess strong understanding of the broader business and organization and can relate and connect the Maintenance and Reliability organization to it.
• Incumbent would possess demonstrated ability to organize and lead a multi-functional team and foster a proactive team environment.
• Experience in multiple mills, product systems and staff experience, along with leadership of a non-exempt workforce is highly desired.
• Incumbent would possess or agree to work towards a current recognized certification as Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Leader (CRL).
• Flexibility to travel up to 15% for benchmarking and best practice sharing across KCNA

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Total Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.

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

Location: Marinette, WI

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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.


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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.

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Grade 9: Compensation may vary by location

Salary Range: 105,740 - 130,620 USD
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.

Primary Location
USA-WI-Marinette

Additional Locations

Worker Type
Employee

Worker Sub-Type
Regular

Time Type
Full time