Sr Asset Leader; Paris, TX

Overview

Sr Asset Leader (Paris, TX.)

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, this role focuses on building and managing our portfolio of iconic brands while delivering improvements in safety, quality, cost, and operations.

Safety:

• Support the loss control improvement process by championing and complying with critical safety rules.
• Visibly demonstrate that safety is a core value by role modeling and ensuring compliance with safety procedures and maintaining a safe workplace.
• Ensure that the development of processes, standards and equipment meets national, local and K-C safety codes, policies and guidelines.
• Own development of safety improvement plans.
• Ensure safety investigations are completed and counter measures are in place per incident investigations standard.
• Ensure assets comply with pertinent housekeeping standards.
• Ensure consumer safety requirements are met and strengthened.
• Achieve KCNA specific health and safety objectives (i.e. EHS Maturity Score, URM/UHET).
• Achieve KCNA specific environmental and sustainability objectives (energy, water, plastics, landfill).

Quality:

• Demonstrate quality as a core value.
• Responsible for understanding and holding team accountable for upholding K-C’s Quality policy and standards.
• Achieve objectives around quality metrics (i.e. significant events, RFT, Cost of quality).
• Understands and ensures compliance with applicable FDA and other regulatory agencies and codes.

People:

• Build strong relationships across the Mill teams to deliver continuous improvement.
• Manage teams in accordance with the expected K-C Values and Ways of Working.
• Lead with high expectations around safety and team support.
• Partner with Talent Business Partners to have strong performance management processes, with ongoing coaching and mentoring for all team members.
• Collaborate with Operations Leaders to lead succession planning for hourly operations, reliability and engineering teams.
• Drive partnerships with other mill teams to build capability within the Operations team.
• Collaborate with the site T4E team to ensure asset area training compliance and progression to Certified/Mastery levels.
• Adopt and advance company policies and standards; establish strategic goals and allocate resources to achieve them.
• Develop talent in continuous improvement capabilities (e.g., Lean Basics, Problem Solving, 5S, Leader Standard Work, Visual Management).
• Foster a culture of belonging and build capabilities for sustainable, year-over-year improvement.

Delivery/Cost:

• Provide day-to-day direction to operations, reliability and engineering teams.
• Manage cost of manufacturing and develop strategies/tools for accurate forecasts and forecast conformance.
• Own asset reliability, including unplanned delay planning, asset down planning, and reflection; partner with mill leadership to deliver the site’s strategic plan and reliability maturity improvement.
• Lead capital projects with Design for Reliability concepts and stay within budget.
• Utilize LEAN, LSS and OPEX methodologies to deliver business results.
• Coordinate with planning on production schedules to reduce cycle time and ensure conformance to source planning; collaborate with Logistics on downstream performance and customer demand.
• Maintain effective business communication with stakeholders and manage vendor/supplier relationships with a Total Cost of Ownership mindset.
• Lead department objectives, organizational change, and performance improvements; coordinate with Training to develop team capabilities.
• Lead operations teams in continuous improvement initiatives and communicate updates to key customers.
• May establish process/framework standards for the facility and contribute to site strategy.
• Participate in recruiting activities as needed and develop a Fuel to Grow playbook with Financial Analysts.
• Lead and drive grade change reduction efforts (SMED) and build partnerships with Staff Value Stream Leaders.

Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend® and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our brands and so does the world. We are committed to driving…