Sr. Manager, Platform Team

Sr.

Manager, Platform Team

Job Description

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.

As the Platform Team Leader, you will provide overall team leadership for the crews and the assets they operate in the areas safety, quality, cost, productivity, continuous improvement, housekeeping, good manufacturing practices (GMP), internal control, asset management, customer service, and team capability development.

You will provide leadership to 55 or more direct reports and drive continuous improvement on the assets in close partnership with the Continuous Improvement (CI) & Capabilities, Reliability and Engineering teams at the manufacturing site and with the regional team. 

In this role, you will:


* Provide day-to-day direction to process techs and asset teams.

Arrange for proper support from reliability and platform engineers for plan of the day.


* Manage cost of manufacturing (i.e.

operating supplies, waste, labor, cost savings, etc.).

Partner with reliability team to manage maintenance costs.

Develop strategy and tools to deliver a budget. 


* Partner with Reliability on: ​Asset down planning, execution and reflection, Site strategic reliability plans, reliability analytics


* Lead the team through LEAN and OPEX methodologies.


* Collaborate with planning on the production schedule, rates, sequence to deliver customer service.


* Use effective business communication appropriately with all stakeholders, corporate support teams, employees and external contacts.


* Manage vendor/supplier relationships with a Total Cost of Ownership mindset.


* Lead the development of department objectives and action plans for delivery.


* Lead organizational change, build relationships, and drive performance.


* Accountable for the capability development of team members.

Coordinate with Training 4 Excellence to facilitate skills development.


* Lead operations teams to support mill/regional/global continuous improvement efforts and initiatives.

About Us

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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 ...