Reliability Lead - Manufacturing (KC Onsite-Remote)

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Reliability Lead - Manufacturing (KC Onsite-Remote)

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.

SUMMARY OF POSITION: To deliver a breakthrough step change in asset reliability performance by assisting with the development and ensuring the execution of the North America reliability planning and scheduling strategy (short and long term), and coordinating the mill Reliability Leaders and associated resources to execute their individual planning and scheduling strategies to meet and exceed expected business deliverable results.

In this role, you will: This position is accountable for delivering a breakthrough step change in asset performance with a principal focus on the planning and scheduling execution aspects to generate both OEE and cost value creation on/or ahead of schedule. Included in this accountability is the continued development and execution of the planning and scheduling strategy to realize the full long term phases (Intermediate to Advanced). • Provide Planning and Scheduling leadership and thinking to the sector and plant teams to ensure delivery of sector financial requirements and to create a "Culture of Reliability".

• Lead, resource, develop, and inspire the reliability planning and scheduling plan execution including indirect management of the plant level Reliability Leaders, with direct accountability for the capability development and performance of mill-level planners and schedulers.

• Lead the development and use of sector planning and scheduling tools, processes and their associated financial analysis, and general reporting for business management. This includes training of work order management, backlog governance, and scheduling analytics to Mill and Staff Reliability team members and train the trainer.

This position is accountable to meet customer expectations including: • Deliver the value identified associated with the Planning and Scheduling Strategy on/ahead of time.

• Work in partnership with the raw materials and process areas to mutually achieve the OEE and cost targets with a primary focus on the planning and scheduling execution aspects, including measurable improvement in schedule compliance, backlog aging, and maintenance cost per unit of production.

• Ensure that schedule compliance, backlog health, and work order quality performance are on trajectory to meet and/or exceed target requirements on/ahead of time.

• Provide Operations and Engineering with information and insights to support proactive maintenance execution and reliability improvement.

• Provide Operations and Engineering with information and insights to develop planning and scheduling capabilities that support "Design for Reliability" principles.

• Provide protection to planning and scheduling technologies and processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.

• Locate or leverage existing internal or external planning and scheduling technology solutions and best practices for business value delivery.

• Maintain technical and operational expertise in the area of maintenance planning and scheduling, reliability work management systems, and the connection between P&S execution and equipment health and OEE outcomes. Communicate impacts of development to Kimberly-Clark North America.

• Ensure alignment with Corporate Financial Instructions and Corporate policies.

Customers and Customer Expectations :

The primary customer is the Kimberly Clark North America leadership team.  Other key customers include Plant Managers and Operations leadership (asset performance), Mill and Staff Engineering, and Plant Maintenance.  Additional customers include Planning and Distribution, Procurement, and Stores. Customer expectations are to (1) establish the planning and scheduling standards for the consistent execution of work management processes at the mill level, (2) ensure work order quality, backlog health, schedule compliance, and wrench time performance are on trajectory to meet and/or exceed target requirements on/ahead of time, (3) provide Operations and Engineering with visibility and insights to support reliability execution and continuous improvement, (4) deliver accurate and timely reporting that enables site and sector leadership to act, (5) actively support the vision of Zero Injuries.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You 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.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to

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