Training Excellence; T4E Team Leader

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 role leads the development, deployment, strategy, and training of the Training 4 Excellence (T4E) program across the manufacturing site. This role will provide leadership, guidance, coordination, and functional direction to drive and sustain improvements in personnel capability and performance utilizing CI principles and training strategies to deliver improved results in the facility. The incumbent reports directly to the site Continuous Improvement and Capabilities Manager;

and will receive some direction from KCNA Training & Capability Sr. Manager. The position is responsible for executing the KCNA T4E multi-year strategy, addressing site specific training needs/gaps and engaging team members across the organization, to drive continuous improvement through training and capability improvements of Manufacturing/Operations & Maintenance & Reliability team members. This role will provide day-to-day work direction for the trainers/training coordinators throughout the site along with teaching, coaching, and mentoring other site team members.

Actively pursues and supports standard training solutions across the site and within the KCNA Supply Chain.

In this role, you will:

• Provides strategic and tactical leadership to build the capability of the T4E training team by providing work expectations, guidance and coaching to address barriers to delivery.
• Ensure projects/tasks meet objectives while manage site T4E budget.
• Establish a regular cadence of floor/Gemba time to understand what’s working well and what training issues exist
• Consult with site Safety, Environmental, Quality, and Reliability teams on training best practices, documentation, and tracking. Champion safety, quality, and reliability in your manufacturing site by ensuring training documents reflect current safety standards and practices.
• Partner with Continuous Improvement team to respond to training issues and gaps through root cause analysis, problem solving, diagnostic interviews and surveys. Work with training teams, both at staff and mill level, to prioritize and address identified capability gaps.
• Manages team performance by setting objectives, conducting 1:1’s, regular coaching, communication and executing performance reviews.
• Leads, mentors, and supports entire site in execution of the training calendar and execution plan.
• Ensure compliance and execution of KC T4E framework standards, including but not limited to, new hire orientation, new to role, new to department, qualified/certified and mastery process, skills refresh, continuous improvement, leadership training and knowledge transfer.
• Partner with KCNA T4E Core Team to actively engage in benchmarking and sharing of best practices.
• Manage relationships with third party vendors for training and development.

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.

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.

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