Digital Manufacturing Leader

Digital Manufacturing Leader

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

In one of our manufacturing roles you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Job responsibilities include:

As the Digital Manufacturing Lead, you will own the execution of the KCNA Digital Manufacturing strategy for the plant; focused on equipment, capability building, and value delivery.  You will be a technical expert and support the advancement of major digital systems, processes, and capabilities to achieve a highly connected, operationally efficient, and effective manufacturing environment across the plant.  You will also champion and support all other mobile digital applications used by the site in alignment with other Kimberly-Clark North America facilities.

This role is viewed as an expert in complex application environments, encompassing both business process understanding and technical expertise.

Influential communication, growth mindset, and the ability to strategically navigate at multiple levels of a diverse plant organization are important in this role. 


* Key strategy owner for implementing digital programs for sustaining the long-term growth of the KC digital manufacturing strategy.


* Develops, advises, and recommends long term resolutions to systemic manufacturing problems.


* Technical expert for major digital systems, processes and capabilities (i.e.

SMOM, EWM, YMS, etc.)


* Champion & support mobile digital applications (i.e.

Poka, SchedulePro)


* Drive continuous improvement and change management within their system(s) of responsibility to drive efficiency and effectiveness improvements across the organization.


* Analyzes the data structure, calculations, and workflow within their major plant systems to leverage, integrate, and optimize systems and people across the supply chain.


* Provide analytical support for the data contained within and generated by the respective manufacturing system.


* Add Power BI dashboards and PI Vision screens


* Sustain and integrate data historian systems, MES (Manufacturing Execution System), and QMS (Quality Management System).


* Site lead for deployment of MES and SMOM (Smart Manufacturing Operations Management) system, ensuring the success...