Reliability Manager

Kimberly-Clark USA; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kimberly-Clark USA seeks a Reliability Manager to provide strategic leadership for maintenance and reliability at the Wisconsin manufacturing site. The role targets a breakthrough in asset performance while reducing costs through continuous improvement, in partnership with NCNA Reliability Team and Operations.

You will lead the plant's reliability strategy, supervise a Stores and Reliability team, and drive a culture of safety, integrity, and quality across operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in engineering or relevant science discipline with 10+ years of manufacturing experience.
• Significant experience in Engineering, Operations, Lean Manufacturing, and Maintenance.
• Strong understanding of the broader business and how Maintenance and Reliability connect to it.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and lead a multi-functional team and foster a proactive environment.
• Experience in multiple plants, product systems, and staff leadership is highly desired.
• Experience with Lean manufacturing practices and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety initiatives and implement loss control across the organization.
• Provide resources to align equipment, processes, and procedures with business objectives; ensure regulatory compliance.
• Manage and develop the Stores and Reliability team, including performance management and succession planning.
• Drive asset performance improvements to world-class levels while reducing maintenance costs.
• Partner with site leadership to govern reliability processes and invest in technology with clear ROI.

Skills

Leadership

Reliability

Lean manufacturing

Engineering background

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Reliability 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.

The Reliability Manager provides maintenance and reliability strategic leadership for processes and teams at the manufacturing site. This position is responsible for delivering a breakthrough step change in asset performance while driving costs down to world class levels through continuous improvement; in partnership with the KCNA Reliability Team, Central Stores, and with the Operations & Engineering team at the manufacturing site. This position leads the plant level reliability strategy development and plan execution including leadership of the transformation plan and its associated activities.

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 leadership 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:

Safety

• Implement loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value.
• Develop and maintain safety systems in accordance with K-C loss control management and lead your team to complete safety objectives and ensure a safe working environment.

Quality

• Support improvement initiatives towards process capability and precision maintenance work execution.
• Provide resources and systems to align equipment, products, processes, materials, systems, and procedures to achieve business objectives.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

People

• Manage yourself in accordance with the One K-C Behaviors and values.
• Lead and develop the plant Stores and Reliability team (Stores, maintenance technicians, planners, reliability engineer) - including performance manager accountabilities, resource sharing approach, skill development, and career guidance.
• Lead the site succession planning for all reliability technicians at the site
• Ensure reliability tools and standards are implemented consistently across the site
• Build the reliability knowledge and capability of others in the manufacturing facility.
• Accountable for understanding and assuring cost effective resource capacity allocations. (i.e. managing to the right number of technical resources so that effective reliability services are provided to the organization)

Delivery/Cost

• Lead, resource, develop, and inspire the reliability team to drive a breakthrough step change in asset performance with a principal focus on equipment reliability resulting in an improvement to safety, quality, OEE, and to reduce maintenance costs to world class levels.
• Lead, resource, develop, and inspire the stores team to continuously drive improvements in safety, quality, inventory level, delivery and cost reduction to best support your sites assets and teams to provide world class service.
• Work in partnership with the facility leadership to achieve facility objectives. Provide governance to all established reliability processes, ensure continual improvement, and build/establish new processes. Ensure we are following standards for all Reliability systems. Determine and track investments in reliability technology, systems and methods to insure maximum ROI.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Position requires knowledge and experience typically associated with a bachelor's or advanced degree in engineering or relevant scientific discipline and 10+ years of manufacturing related experience.
• The incumbent would typically have significant experience in Engineering, Operations, Lean Manufacturing, and Maintenance.
• Possess strong understanding of the broader business and organization and can relate and connect the Maintenance and Reliability organization to it.
• Incumbent would possess demonstrated ability to organize and lead a multi-functional team and foster a proactive team environment.
• Experience in multiple plants, product systems and staff experience, along with leadership of a non-exempt workforce is highly desired.
• Experience with Kimberly-Clark procedures and processes, Lean manufacturing practices and Lean or continuous improvement.
• Experience coaching, developing and leading teams.
• Ability to organize, influence and lead multi-functional teams and foster a proactive team environment with and without direct authority.
• Ability to make timely decisions, manage escalation and prioritize res