Manager Production

Manager Production

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kotex®, Poise® and Depend®.

 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:

You will lead Personal Care manufacturing lines and offline packing operations to deliver safe, reliable, high-quality and cost-effective production.

You will also be responsible to drive operational excellence through asset performance, safety and quality compliance, people leadership, continuous improvement and strong cross-functional coordination.

This role is part of Kimberly-Clark’s investment in creating new jobs and expanding its capabilities to produce premium that are essential to millions of lives around the world, and right here in Pune.

It starts with YOU.

·        Manage 04 manufacturing assets and offline packing operation across Personal Care operations.

·        Lead a team of approximately 85 employees, including frontline employees and production staff.

·        Own day-to-day production delivery, offline packing output, safety performance, quality adherence, machine uptime, waste reduction and conversion cost control.

·        Ensure compliance with KC standards, statutory requirements, QMS, ISO expectations and site operating procedures.

·        Set and deliver production targets with focus on capacity utilization, product performance, customer service and optimized manufacturing cost.

·        Lead safety, housekeeping, quality, centerlining, maintenance coordination and production output improvement across assigned assets.

·        Manage offline packing activities at Pune Plant.

·        Drive machine reliability, OEE improvement, waste reduction, productivity improvement and conversion cost optimization.

·        Manage production department resources and budget in line with plant priorities.

·        Lead or sponsor product, process development, continuous improvement and cost-saving projects.

·        Support engineering initiatives, technical knowledge transfer, project execution and asset/process improvement.

·        Build a World Class Manufacturing culture through standard work, capability building, benchmarking and best-practice sharing.

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