Senior Manager - Production Systems

Senior Manager - Production Systems

Job Description

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. 

In this role, you will:

This position provides overall team leadership to manage plant operations 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 manages teams that 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. Incumbent will set objectives that will have a direct and significant impact on plant and sector results and in the delivery of customer service for Kimberly-Clark.

Incumbent reports to the Plant Manager.  This role is responsible to effectively lead business objectives for the operations area for high-capacity and technically complex manufacturing processes.

As a member of the leadership team, the Product System Manager will help develop strategic direction for the facility.  This role will collaborate and influence across business functions (Examples: R&D, marketing, sales, logistics) and opportunities for involvement in broad based business projects.  The PSM determines the objectives that typically are focused at the plant level for safety, quality, GMP, housekeeping/5S, customer service, continuous improvement, productivity, cost, internal control, asset management, human resources and team capability development.

The incumbent works closely with the Plant Manager and other team managers to provide leadership for the facility.

This includes participation in discussions and decision-making regarding plant-wide issues such as facility philosophy, policies and guidelines, employee relations practices, safety and quality efforts, acquisition of facility assets, special events, and key communications.

Safety


* Provides leadership to ensure safety as the top priority, drives a culture of injury/illness prevention, and ensures compliance with all safety policies and regulations.


* Owns safety improvements, investigations, and standards—including loss control, equipment/process safety, housekeeping/5S, and drug/alcohol program support.

Quality


* Embeds quality as a core value by ensuring compliance with the full Quality Management System, quality policies, QC systems, and regulatory standards (including FDA cGMP / 21 CFR 820).


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