Reliability Manager

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 the reduction of 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 site’s 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 ensure 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,…