Reliability Manager

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. The Reliability Manager provides maintenance and reliability strategic leadership for processes and teams at the manufacturing site. This position is responsible for delivering a breakthrough step change in asset performance while driving costs down to world class levels through continuous improvement;

in partnership with the KCNA Reliability Team, Central Stores, and with the Operations & Engineering team at the manufacturing site. This position leads the plant level reliability strategy development and plan execution including leadership of the transformation plan and its associated activities. 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. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

• Implement loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value. Develop and maintain safety systems in accordance with K-C 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 K-C Behaviors and values. Lead and develop the plant Stores and Reliability team – 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.
• 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, resource, 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.

• 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…