Production System Manager

Production System Manager

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. 

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. 

About You ​​

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.

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.

Key Customers include: Operations Team, Plant Management, Reliability Team, CI & Capabilities Team, Logistics, Engineering Teams, Planning, Value Stream Leaders, , and other KC Enterprise and NA Supply Chain Teams and Management, Research & Development, Other Kimberly-Clark Facilities, Customers, Consumers, FDA

In one of our Manufacturing roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety...