Site Leader - Occupational Health & Safety

Site Leader - Occupational Health & Safety Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 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. You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: as Preventing and fixing problems on technologically advanced, high-speed machines that produce top-notch products for ¼ of the world’s population is no easy feat, but it’s worth it when you’re recognized often by your manager, supported by your team, and see the products you produce being used by your own family at the end of the day.

In this role, you will:

• Legal Compliance Management:
  Interpret, understand, and continuously monitor/manage changing implications of relevant legal requirements applicable to site activities and operations.
• Complex Risk Assessment:
  Able to identify and understand complex occupational health and safety hazards, assess associated risks, and develop similar skills and capabilities in others.
• Subject Matter Expertise:
  Stay skilled in pertinent occupational health and safety subjects, particularly those covered by K-C OH&S and E&S Performance Standards and linked to operation‑specific risks.
• Leadership in Incident Management:
  Participate in occupational health and safety incident investigations and conduct causal analyses while building similar skills and capabilities in others.
• Training Development and Delivery:
  Develop, deliver, and train others across a broad spectrum of OH&S and E&S topics relevant to moderately complex operations.
• Program Maturity Assessments:
  Conduct routine checks/self‑assessments of the site's occupational health and safety program maturity and performance in moderately complex operations.
• Leadership
  
  Skills:
  
  Demonstrate relevant leadership skills related to accountability, positive role modeling, and commitment as per the Leadership Curriculum.
• Technological Acumen:
  Leverage data and digital systems/platforms to improve decision‑making and problem‑solving. Address technological advancements, such as automation, as relevant to tasks/duties of the role.
• Project Management and Change Management:
  Exhibit capabilities in project management and managing change effectively.
• Lean Mindset and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Role model a lean mindset, emphasizing continuous improvement and value to the customer. Embrace a "go to where the work happens" attitude. Demonstrate strong collaboration and relationship‑building skills.
• Manufacturing Planning/Execution/Capital Allocation:
  Possess familiarity with manufacturing planning, execution, and capital allocation processes.
• Compliance Assurance:
  Ensure the site's compliant with K-C and regulatory controls and requirements related to occupational health and safety matters.
• OH&S and E&S Management System:
  Act as the functional owner and facilitate the implementation of the occupational health and safety components within the site’s OH&S and E&S Management System.
• Risk Management:
  
  Identify occupational health and safety aspects, hazards, emerging requirements, etc., and verify that they are managed to acceptable levels of risk or impact.
• Objective Setting:
  Define the occupational health and safety objectives for the site and assess the effectiveness of performance.
• Program Maturity:
  Lead the facility's initiatives to improve the maturity of the occupational health and safety programs.
• Global and Regional Strategies:
  Effectively implements Global and Region/BU occupational health and safety strategies.
• Event Investigations:
  Assist in occupational health and safety event investigations to ensure thorough root cause evaluations and verify…