Reliability Manager

Kimberly-Clark•Marinette, WI

7d•$105,740 - $130,620•Onsite

About The Position

This role is an opportunity to explore uncharted questions, engineer innovative solutions, advance scientific understanding, and constantly push the boundaries of what’s possible within a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision. The Reliability Manager is responsible for technically complex processes, plant equipment, and facilities. This role provides strategic leadership for maintenance skilled resources and reliability engineering groups to deliver improved asset performance. The position implements loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value. It involves developing and maintaining safety systems in accordance with Kimberly-Clark loss control management and leading the team to complete safety objectives and ensure a safe working environment. Support improvement initiatives towards process capability and precision maintenance work execution. Provide resources and systems to align equipment, products, processes, materials, systems, and procedures to achieve business objectives. Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Manage yourself in accordance with the One Kimberly-Clark Behaviors and values. Lead and develop the mill Stores and Reliability team (Stores, maintenance technicians, planners, reliability engineer) – including performance manager accountabilities, resource sharing approach, skill development, and career guidance. Lead the site succession planning for all reliability technicians at the site. Ensure reliability tools and standards are implemented consistently across the site. Build the reliability knowledge and capability of others in the manufacturing facility. Accountable for understanding and assuring cost effective resource capacity allocations (i.e. managing the right number of technical resources so that effective reliability services are provided to the organization). Lead, resource, develop, and inspire the reliability team to drive a breakthrough step change in asset performance with a principal focus on equipment reliability resulting in an improvement to safety, quality, OEE, and to reduce maintenance costs to world class levels. Lead, develop, and inspire the stores team to continuously drive improvements in safety, quality, inventory level, delivery and cost reduction to best support your sites assets and teams to provide world class service. Work in partnership with the facility leadership to achieve facility objectives. Provide governance to all established reliability processes, ensure continual improvement, and build/establish new processes. Ensure we are following standards for all Reliability systems. Determine and track investments in reliability technology, systems and methods to insure maximum ROI. Work in partnership with the staff Reliability and Enterprise Supply Chain Reliability Team to achieve facility and sector/supply chain objectives. Align your team and objectives to the Sector strategy and standards. Represent your manufacturing site within the sector and corporate technical community and at all Global Reliability Network meetings and activities. Champion the maintenance budget process and foster partnerships in the cross functional accountability of adhering to budgetary objectives. Manage routine check and adjust process associated with the budget and based on mill spending and business demands. Participate in the capital planning process. Manage a skills matrix for the maintenance organization and skills development to provide improved reliability performance and service. Responsible for delivering 3% year-on-year reduction in spending by embracing and fostering a culture of loss prevention and control to drive continuous improvement in the reduction of breakdowns and other losses across the site asset base. Lead the stores team to ensure accurate inventory in the right amount to ensure costs associated with inventory are at the right level. Place emphasis on CFI’s and Internal Controls. Own and deploy the site reliability strategy, ensuring alignment with Mill Strategy Deployment (SD), Product System priorities, and long‑range business plans. Provide leadership for integration of reliability practices into daily operations, including asset strategies, maintenance execution, capital planning, and OPEX/CI routines. Lead the development and execution of a multi‑year reliability roadmap with clearly defined initiatives, owners, milestones, and performance targets for asset availability, OEE, and maintenance effectiveness. Establish and sustain governance routines (review cadences, KPIs, standard work) that drive accountability, cross‑functional alignment, and continuous improvement in reliability performance. Partner closely with Operations, Engineering, and Central Stores to ensure reliability priorities are embedded in production plans, outage planning, and resource allocation. Ensure reliability and maintenance capabilities support safe, compliant, and stable 24/7 operations, including critical asset risk management and emergency response readiness. Drive sustainable cost improvement through disciplined maintenance strategies, optimized use of internal and external resources, and elimination of chronic losses and unplanned downtime. Serve as the mill’s primary reliability liaison to regional, sector, and corporate reliability networks, ensuring adoption of standards, sharing of best practices, and benchmarking against peer sites. Build and maintain a healthy technical talent pipeline, including apprenticeship health, skills matrices, succession planning, and long‑term capability development for the mill.

Requirements

Knowledge and experience typically associated with a bachelor’s or advanced degree in engineering or relevant scientific discipline.
10+ years of manufacturing related experience.
Significant experience in Engineering, Operations, Lean Manufacturing, and Maintenance.
Strong understanding of the broader business and organization and can relate and connect the Maintenance and Reliability organization to it.
Demonstrated ability to organize and lead a multi-functional team and foster a proactive team environment.
Experience in multiple mills, product systems and staff experience, along with leadership of a non-exempt workforce is highly desired.
Possess or agree to work towards a current recognized certification as Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Leader (CRL).
Flexibility to travel up to 15% for benchmarking and best practice sharing across KCNA.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic leadership for maintenance skilled resources and reliability engineering groups to deliver improved asset performance.
Implement loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value.
Develop and maintain safety systems in accordance with Kimberly-Clark loss control management and lead your team to complete safety objectives and ensure a safe working environment.
Support improvement initiatives towards process capability and precision maintenance work execution.
Provide resources and systems to align equipment, products, processes, materials, systems, and procedures to achieve business objectives.
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Lead and develop the mill Stores and Reliability team (Stores, maintenance technicians, planners, reliability engineer) – including performance manager accountabilities, resource sharing approach, skill development, and career guidance.
Lead the site succession planning for all reliability technicians at the site.
Ensure reliability tools and standards are implemented consistently across the site.
Build the reliability knowledge and capability of others in the manufacturing facility.
Accountable for understanding and assuring cost effective resource capacity allocations.
Lead, resource, develop, and inspire the reliability team to drive a breakthrough step change in asset performance with a principal focus on equipment reliability resulting in an improvement to safety, quality, OEE, and to reduce maintenance costs to world class levels.
Lead, develop, and inspire the stores team to continuously drive improvements in safety, quality, inventory level, delivery and cost reduction to best support your sites assets and teams to provide world class service.
Work in partnership with the facility leadership to achieve facility objectives.
Provide governance to all established reliability processes, ensure continual improvement, and build/establish new processes.
Ensure we are following standards for all Reliability systems.
Determine and track investments in reliability technology, systems and methods to insure maximum ROI.
Work in partnership with the staff Reliability and Enterprise Supply Chain Reliability Team to achieve facility and sector/supply chain objectives.
Align your team and objectives to the Sector strategy and standards.
Represent your manufacturing site within the sector and corporate technical community and at all Global Reliability Network meetings and activities.
Champion the maintenance budget process and foster partnerships in the cross functional accountability of adhering to budgetary objectives.
Manage routine check and adjust process associated with the budget and based on mill spending and business demands.
Participate in the capital planning process.
Manage a skills matrix for the maintenance organization and skills development to provide improved reliability performance and service.
Responsible for delivering 3% year-on-year reduction in spending by embracing and fostering a culture of loss prevention and control to drive continuous improvement in the reduction of breakdowns and other losses across the site asset base.
Lead the stores team to ensure accurate inventory in the right amount to ensure costs associated with inventory are at the right level.
Place emphasis on CFI’s and Internal Controls.
Own and deploy the site reliability strategy, ensuring alignment with Mill Strategy Deployment (SD), Product System priorities, and long‑range business plans.
Provide leadership for integration of reliability practices into daily operations, including asset strategies, maintenance execution, capital planning, and OPEX/CI routines.
Lead the development and execution of a multi‑year reliability roadmap with clearly defined initiatives, owners, milestones, and performance targets for asset availability, OEE, and maintenance effectiveness.
Establish and sustain governance routines (review cadences, KPIs, standard work) that drive accountability, cross‑functional alignment, and continuous improvement in reliability performance.
Partner closely with Operations, Engineering, and Central Stores to ensure reliability priorities are embedded in production plans, outage planning, and resource allocation.
Ensure reliability and maintenance capabilities support safe, compliant, and stable 24/7 operations, including critical asset risk management and emergency response readiness.
Drive sustainable cost improvement through disciplined maintenance strategies, optimized use of internal and external resources, and elimination of chronic losses and unplanned downtime.
Serve as the mill’s primary reliability liaison to regional, sector, and corporate reliability networks, ensuring adoption of standards, sharing of best practices, and benchmarking against peer sites.
Build and maintain a healthy technical talent pipeline, including apprenticeship health, skills matrices, succession planning, and long‑term capability development for the mill.