Operational Excellence Lead

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.  

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

Facilitate and improve the objective deployment process within the mill to support mill breakthrough areas;

Working with the plant leadership team to support strategy deployment processes within the mill.

Coordinate and optimise mill cadence processes in support of breakthrough objectives.

Facilitate and improve the following key mill CI functions:

Tier Meeting Process

Connected Checking, Standard Work and Leader Standard Work

OPEX Deployment Plans for Mill Assets

Lean Six Sigma Deployment

A3 strategy deployment and Improvement Planning

Capability and Training Programs

​Develop, facilitate and manage the introduction of new tools within the mill to counteract identified problems and challenges

Carry out education sessions on CI tools, processes and thinking.

Manage the introduction of tools and processes through pilot efforts, driving simple, robust and sustainable systems, building towards a “Northfleet operating system”.

Facilitate, promote and support a continuous improvement culture at Northfleet mill including, leveraging proven systems, tools and techniques

CI SME - Coaching and development of leadership teams in CI thinking, tools and systems supporting a multi-year site wide transformation effort

Enable deployment of proven CI tools throughout the mill organisation

​Support the EMEA CI transformation roadmap including:

Representation for the mill at LEAN action meetings to ensure standardisation across all locations.

Provide a link between the mills and sector resources with regards CI activities

Provide a link between CI and reliability strategies

Leadership of on-site supply chain graduate development program

Leading the Manufacturing Execution System (MES), digital evolution of the site systems and processes & digital capability of the on site teams.

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.

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

Experience of working in a multifunctional team

Experience of CI implementation in FMCG environment

Preferably experience with Digital Manufacturing

Strong leadership and demonstrated influencing skill

Total Benefits 

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.  

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness centre, occupational health nurse.

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

Diverse income protection insurance 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.

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance.  Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme. 

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 checks.

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Primary LocationNorthfleet Mill

Additional Locations

Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time