Asset Leader

**Asset Leader**

**Location, Barrow Mill**

**Permanent, Full time**

**Competitive + benefits**

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.

Our Asset leader will manage and lead a multi-disciplined team ensuring that the asset is managed, maintained and operated to achieve operational excellence in the areas of safety, quality, cost, production and digital manufacturing, and that the operation complies with specific Company, Local and Statutory requirements.

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
**People**
- Development of the team’s process knowledge on an ongoing basis through one on one coaching and employee assessments with collaboration from the Process Engineer. Providing leadership and direction to asset team to accomplish defined objectives.
- Works in collaboration with Senior Process Engineers to develop improvement plans for product and asset, and support development of Process Engineers and Technicians.

**Safety**
- Delivers high safety standards, ensures compliance with company and country regulations
- Contribute to the site wide Safety Strategy and drive the implementation of on-going safety improvement plans.
- Management and adherence to the Site/Corporate Safety standards, eg SWP, LSW, risk assessments, for your area

**Quality**
- Ensure the quality and centreline culture is adopted and executed to standard on the asset.
- Ensure the QMS is implemented and applied adequately for example GMP, document control, QNC CAPA, etc.

**Delivery**
- Optimise performance through the achievement of defined targets, objectives, metrics and standards in the areas of waste, output, machine delay, efficiency and reliability. This includes the execution of continuous improvement plans.
- Manage and support maintenance programs to ensure delivery of asset reliability KPIs and effectively manage and plan downtime
- Leverage digital manufacturing to its full potential

**Cost**
- Manage departmental costs, ie overtime, operating and maintenance, ensuring they are all in line with budgets
- Managing operational cost and efficiency of utilities, materials, at all times to achieve lowest possible total

**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 manufacturing 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:

- Minimum of a Degree in Engineering or equivalent knowledge and experience within the industry and track record of continued self-development
- Proven track record in delivering results
- Experience of working at a supervisory level
- Lean manufacturing and process improvement experience
- Tissue manufacture or Converting experience would be advantageous
- Experience of process engineering exposure within FMCG environment would be advantageous

**Total Benefits**

**Great support for good health** with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions.

**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 employee