Digital Manufacturing Leader

Kimberly-Clark•Warren, MI

2d•$105,740 - $130,620•Onsite

About The Position

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. At the KC Warren Plant, we are building more than a manufacturing facility—we are building a High Performance Work System (HPWS) where employees are empowered to make decisions, solve problems, develop new skills, and directly influence business results. Our culture is built around shared leadership, continuous learning, accountability, and respect for people. Employees are expected to contribute ideas, challenge the status quo, and work collaboratively to improve safety, quality, reliability, and performance every day. POSITION SUMMARY: The purpose of this role is to own the execution of the KCNA Digital Manufacturing strategy for the plant; focused on equipment, capability building, and value delivery. He/she will be a technical expert and support the advancement of major digital systems, processes, and capabilities to achieve a highly connected, operationally efficient, and effective manufacturing environment across the plant. Incumbent will also champion and support all other mobile digital applications used by the site (i.e. Poka, Seeq, Schedule Pro, etc.), in alignment with other Kimberly-Clark North America facilities. This role is viewed as an expert in complex application environments, encompassing both business process understanding and technical expertise. Influential communication, growth mindset, and the ability to strategically navigate at multiple levels of a diverse plant organization are important in this role. Key stakeholders include, but not limited to, KCNA Supply Chain Digital teams, Plant leaders, DTS, Engineering and Plant teams. This role is responsible for the digital manufacturing strategy execution at the site level, in alignment with the KCNA Digital Strategy, as well as effectively leading business objectives for the site. The incumbent will work with project teams compiled of employees from multiple disciplines. This role will have interaction across sites and opportunities for involvement in broad based business projects. Objectives typically are focused at the plant level for safety, quality, continuous improvement, productivity, cost, internal control, asset management, and team capability development, but should drive standardization across KCNA. Incumbent reports to the site Continuous Improvement Leader. 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. About You 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 center.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, ITS or related field
Minimum 5+ years of relevant professional experience with 3+ years of systems support and development.
Exposure to Lean and demonstrated examples of application of LEAN principles, (minimum of a blue belt).
Possess or demonstrate ability to learn statistical/analytical skills: Regression, Statistical Process Control, Financial Analysis, Analytical Modeling, and Industrial Process Analytics.
Direct experience with large, interconnected software systems such as SAP ERP, MES, PLM, etc.
Demonstrated ability to lead the execution of a global, regional, or functional strategic initiative
Work collaboratively and effectively with individuals across all levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

May require flex schedule to support the needs of the business and objectives
Available to extend support to the 24/7 operation as required
May require some travel.

Responsibilities

Key strategy owner for implementing digital programs for sustaining the long-term growth of the KC digital manufacturing strategy.
Develops, advises, and recommends long term resolutions to systemic manufacturing problems.
Technical expert for major digital systems, processes and capabilities (i.e. SMOM, EWM, etc.)
Champion & support mobile digital applications (i.e. Poka, SchedulePro)
Drive continuous improvement and change management within their system(s) of responsibility to drive efficiency and effectiveness improvements across the organization.
Analyzes the data structure, calculations, and workflow within their major plant systems to leverage, integrate, and optimize systems and people across the supply chain.
Provide analytical support for the data contained within and generated by the respective manufacturing system.
Sustain and integrate data historian systems, MES (Manufacturing Execution System), and QMS (Quality Management System).
Site lead for deployment of SMOM (Smart Manufacturing Operations Management) system, ensuring the success by providing technical expertise and effective facilitation of the process.
Develop and maintain data flows into SMOM (manual entries, PLC inputs, etc.) for generating information (reports, dashboards etc.)
Support development and implementation of plans/programs for sustaining the long-term growth of SMOM to meet sector objectives.
Provide technical and operational expertise to achieve quick and timely solutions to SMOM related problems within all site asset team areas.