Continuous Improvement – LEAN Leader

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🏈 Alabama, Connecticut, +9 more states – Remote

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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 • Use Six Sigma problem-solving methods and LEAN tools to identify gaps, develop improvement plans, and execute solutions • Deliver significant impact to manufacturing processes, organizational capability, and high-performance culture • Become a subject matter expert in LEAN Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, Reliability, and Lean Six Sigma • Engage in Enterprise Operating System Power Up pillars and develop and deploy enterprise standards across North American manufacturing sites • Lead complex problem-solving efforts and strategic initiatives • Work with operations, maintenance, Value Stream, logistics, quality, finance, digital, and Enterprise Supply Chain teams to drive plant performance • Lead Lean Six Sigma projects delivering more than $1MM in annual impact • Collaborate with plant CI managers on change management, training, implementation, coaching, assessments, operational excellence, LEAN fundamentals, OEE transformation, safety, quality, and efficiency • 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 thinking • Identify and drive technology improvements with the digital capabilities team • Build people and process capability to sustain the Power Up operating system • Facilitate workshops and mentor business-unit leaders and Lean Six Sigma candidates • Educate employees at all levels on Lean tools, processes, and thinking • Drive standardization, simplification, breakthrough thinking, and best-practice sharing across facilities and functions • Drive stakeholder management through forums and other methods

🎯 Requirements

• Knowledge and experience typically associated with a bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in supply chain, engineering or related, and 10+ years of related experience • Possess or 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 • Understanding of the broader business/organization and ability to connect the CI and Capabilities organization to it • Demonstrated ability to organize and lead multi-functional teams • Interpersonal and communication skills to motivate, empower, train, and coach a diverse group of team members • Willingness to challenge the status quo and facilitate different perspectives • Experience developing vision and strategy • Problem-solving mindset • Strong project management skills • Proficiency with MS Suite is highly desired • Experience in multiple mills, product systems and staff experience, and 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, plus coaching and mentoring at all levels, is highly desired • Ability to work safely in a manufacturing environment • Willingness to work varying scheduled hours, including some shift work, based on 24/7 operations • Willingness to travel approximately 50%, potentially exceeding that percentage, including possible international travel

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligibility for a target bonus • Comprehensive benefits suite • 401(k) plan • Profit-Sharing plan • Opportunities to achieve, thrive and grow • 50% travel for the role