Manufacturing Training Leader

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.

The incumbent reports to the site Continuous Improvement and Capabilities Manager. The position is responsible for engaging team members across the organization to drive continuous improvement through training and capability improvements of all site personnel.  This role will provide day to day work direction for the training coordinators throughout the site along with teaching, coaching and mentoring other site team members.  Actively pursues and supports standard training solutions across the site and within the KCNA Supply Chain.

Responsibilities:

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  Support and Champion safety in your manufacturing site by driving educational and behavioral processes to a world class level, through the application of T4E thinking, processes and tools. 

• Support loss control throughout the organization by reinforcing safety systems that demonstrate safety as a value.

• Fully comply with site and corporate loss management policies.

• Support training initiatives that build process capability in all team members across the site. 

• Ensure training documents and processes are in compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Manage yourself in accordance with the One K-C Behaviors and values. 

• Builds the capability of the training teams by providing work expectations, guidance, and direction to the product system and platform training coordinators, and coach to address ongoing barriers to delivery

• Defines and coaches training coordinators in their efforts to provide education on training tools, processes, and techniques to manufacturing site personnel as needed

• Implements activities that build rapport between the training team and other site personnel

• Leads, mentors, and supports entire site in execution of the training calendar and plan derived from the Asset Annual Workshops

• Identifies site wide capability gaps and prioritizes activities to address these gaps, collaborating with training coordinators as needed

• Training 4 Excellence standards from New Hire through Skills Refresh

• Training schedules and plans driven from the Annual Workshop process for Assets and Product Systems

• Training schedules and plans driven from the Annual Workshop process for Assets and Product Systems

• Just-in-time training opportunities resulting from problem solving activities

• Partner with key customers in order to examine manufacturing processes for skill/knowledge deficiencies to allow targeted development of training programs.

• Partner with Operational Excellence/Continuous Improvement team to proactively address and respond to training issues and gaps through root cause analysis, problem solving, diagnostic interviews and surveys.

• Partner with engineering teams to develop and implement an onboarding process for new/transfer engineers.

• Conduct focus group sessions to identify learning and training needs, including post-training follow ups to assess training effectiveness and modify as needed.

• Oversee the onboarding process for new operators and new salary employees.

• Negotiate and manage relationships with third party vendors for training and development.

• Develop on-the-job (OJT) trainer program to support training needs and increase employee engagement, including: train-the-trainer, trainer requirements and qualifications, reporting structure and incentive and recognition plan.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth, and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll have the opportunity to experience flexible work that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

Basic Qualifications:

• Position requires knowledge and experience typically associated with a bachelor’s degree and 5 – 7 years of related experience.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a high-speed industrial manufacturing environment/plant experience.

• The incumbent would typically have significant experience in several of the following: Learning and Development, Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Lean Manufacturing, and Maintenance.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a high-speed industrial manufacturing environment/plant experience.

• Incumbent would possess demonstrated ability to coach and mentor at all levels of the organization to influence and drive collaboration across teams and functions with minimal supervision.

• Experience in a variety of mill and staff assignments is desired along with a familiarity with other related disciplines and business functions to enable a system-wide view.

• The incumbent would typically have significant experience in several of the following: Learning and Development, Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Lean Manufacturing, and Maintenance.

• Incumbent would possess demonstrated ability to coach and mentor at all levels of the organization to influence and drive collaboration across teams and functions with minimal supervision.

• Experience in a variety of mill and staff assignments is desired along with a familiarity with other related disciplines and business functions to enable a system-wide view.

• Ability to provide work direction to team members not in a direct reporting relationship

• Strong understanding of training systems, tools and processes

Total Benefits

Here are a few of the benefits you’d enjoy. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

• Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options. No waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

• Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

• Diverse income protectioninsurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.

• Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.

And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 – when prompted for employee ID, say “OTHER CALLER” -  or kcchrprod@service-now.com for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request.

Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role, including assistance to obtain proper work authorization. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will decided in Kimberly-Clark’s sole discretion.

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