Senior Asset Leader

Senior Asset Leader

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.

Ready to take the next step in your leadership journey? As a Sr.

Asset Leader, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

This role is a critical part of our operations leadership pipeline—a steppingstone toward Product System Leadership and, ultimately, future Plant Management opportunities.

You’ll gain hands-on experience managing assets in a high-speed manufacturing environment while building the leadership skills that set you apart.

Your growth matters to us, and we’ll invest in it through structured development programs and exposure to diverse operations.

Flexibility and mobility are essential - willingness to relocate opens doors to new plants, new challenges, and new opportunities to make an impact.

If you’re ready to lead with vision, embrace continuous improvement, and take ownership of your career trajectory, this is where your future begins.

As a Sr.

Asset Leader, you will provide overall team leadership for your asset team in the areas of safety, quality, cost, productivity, continuous improvement, housekeeping/5S, good manufacturing practices (GMP), internal control, asset management, customer service, human resources and team capability development.

This position drives continuous improvement on their assets through leadership of their Operations, Reliability and Engineering teams.  You will also partner with other site resources (CI, Reliability, Eng, etc.) to deliver platform results.

In this role, you will:

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.  

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).

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.

Delivery/Cost:


* Provide day-to-day directions to operations, reliability and engineering team members.


* Manage cost of manufacturing (i.e.

operating supplies, waste, labor, maintenance...