Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

Leads Mill team in adoption of Training Strategy, System Management, and Deployment of training programs and practices for operational capability and adherence to required / regulatory training as applicable.  This role will provide day-to-day work direction for the site training team along with teaching, coaching, and mentoring other site team members.  Actively pursues and supports standard training solutions across the site and within the Kimberly-Clark Profession, referred to as KCP, Global Manufacturing Team.

This position will manage the overall mill training program and local training team, have overall accountability for compliance to KCP training framework standards and execution of the KCP training strategy. This position serves as a member of the KCP Training Network team.

In this role, you will:

·Lead the capability and training program to positively impact the manufacturing team’s results, unleashing the full engagement and enablement of all team members in the mills.

·Develop and manage site annual plan in connection with KCP Operations Training strategies and priorities.

·Align and influence resource allocation to execute the Mill Capability Building strategy. 

·Ensure compliance and execution of KCP training standards

·Participate in the development and improvement of KCP standards and annual check/adjust process.

·Regularly assess the health of the training system and its effectiveness and drive continuous improvement

·Provide strategic and tactical leadership to build the capability of the site training team by providing work expectations, guidance, and coaching to address ongoing barriers to delivery

·Manages team performance by setting objectives, conducing reoccurring 1:1s and executing performance reviews.

·Define and coach mill training team in their efforts to provide education on training tools, processes, and techniques to manufacturing site personnel as needed

·Participate in the development on the 3-5year KCP Operations Training Strategy

·Ensure execution of the 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 recognition plan.

·Manage mill training budget (if applicable).

·Maintain information and communications with mill leadership team and mill employees on training program functions, improvements, and opportunities

·Manage relationships with third party vendors for training and development (internal and external 3rd party vendors).

·Ensure effective training materials and records are developed and maintained in mill document control system

·Develop and implements activities that build rapport between the training team and other site personnel and improves the culture within in the mill where training is seen as a value.

·Lead and/or participate in KCP training projects as assigned.

·Actively engage in benchmarking and sharing of best practices with other mills and training leaders/resources.

·Champion ongoing improvements and new practices; is an innovator and encourages innovation in others

·Travel up to 15%

The successful candidate will join the Kimberly-Clark NA Supply Chain Strategy team and report to KCP Manufacturing Capability and Training Leader.

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, million 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 experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements 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.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and/or commensurate professional experience
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an industrial manufacturing environment/plant experience
Significant experience in the following: Learning and Development, Supply Chain, Operations, Lean Manufacturing, and/or Maintenance & Reliability
Experience in a variety of mill and staff assignments, along with familiarity of other related disciplines and business functions to enable a system-wide view