Continuous Improvement – LEAN Leader

🕒 August 24

🏈 Alabama, Connecticut, +9 more states – Remote

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💵 $127.6k - $157.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Kimberly-Clark

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10,000+ employees

🏭 Manufacturing

🏥 Healthcare

Manufacturing • Consumer Goods • Healthcare

Kimberly-Clark is a global leader in providing essential health and hygiene products, with a history spanning over 150 years. Employing approximately 44,000 individuals, the company creates trusted brands such as Huggies®, Kleenex®, and Kotex®, which meet the everyday needs of people in more than 175 countries. Committed to sustainability and innovation, Kimberly-Clark cultivates a culture of care and community engagement, striving to improve the health and well-being of individuals and the planet.

📋 Description

• Drive operational transformation across North American manufacturing sites through tactical and strategic Continuous Improvement projects • Lead Lean Six Sigma projects delivering significant value and operational transformation • Identify gaps, develop improvement plans, and execute solutions for manufacturing processes, organizational capability, and high-performance culture • Develop and deploy Enterprise standards within Kimberly-Clark’s Power Up pillars across North American manufacturing sites • Collaborate with plant CI managers on change management, training, implementation, coaching, and assessments • Deploy operational excellence and LEAN fundamentals, including OEE transformation, safety, quality, and efficiency improvements • Serve as a subject matter expert on LEAN manufacturing and build capability across the North American manufacturing organization • Monitor mill-operation KPIs and develop visual management tools, tiered scorecards, and Leader Standard Work • Improve yield, reduce waste, improve quality, and enhance productivity using Six Sigma and LEAN methods • Identify and drive technology improvement solutions with the digital capabilities team • Build people and process capability to sustain the Power Up Enterprise Operating System • Facilitate workshops supporting Power Up deployment • Mentor business unit leaders and Lean Six Sigma candidates • Educate employees at all organizational levels on Lean tools, processes, and thinking • Drive standardization, simplification, breakthrough thinking, and Culture of Accountability practices • Facilitate knowledge and best-practice sharing across facilities and functions • Drive stakeholder management through organizational forums and methods

🎯 Requirements

• Knowledge and experience typically associated with a bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in supply chain, engineering or related • 10+ years of related experience • Possess or be working towards LSS Black Belt certification • Minimum 5 years’ experience in a high-speed industrial manufacturing environment/plant experience is preferred • Direct or indirect manufacturing/operations, supply chain and/or finance experience • Knowledge of organizational structure • Significant experience in Engineering, Operations, Lean Manufacturing, and Reliability • Familiarity with Lean, CI, OPEX, LSS tools and theory • Ability to organize and lead multi-functional teams • Interpersonal and communication skills to motivate, empower, train, and coach diverse team members • Experience developing vision and strategy • Problem-solving mindset and strong project management skills • Proficiency with MS Suite is highly desired • Experience in multiple mills, product systems and staff experience is highly desired • Leadership of exempt and non-exempt workforces is highly desired • Strong understanding of Adult Learning processes, Lean, CI and LSS thinking, systems and tools is highly desired • Experience in change management in large, complex organizations • Coaching and mentoring experience at all levels • Ability to work safely in a manufacturing environment • Ability to support 24/7 operations, including variable hours and some shift work • Willingness to travel approximately 50%, potentially more, including possible international travel

🏖️ Benefits

• Target bonus eligibility • 401(k) plan • Profit-Sharing plan • Comprehensive benefits suite • Benefits and opportunities to achieve, thrive and grow