Senior Asset Leader

Kimberly-Clark • Owensboro, KY

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Senior Asset Leader Job Description 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. In this role, you will: Maintain a positive work environment to promote safety, housekeeping, and human relations. Ensure that assets are properly managed and maintained. Promote continuous improvement in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and team member engagement. Actively demonstrate Safety as a value through active leadership, positive influence of mindsets and by identifying and addressing risks to prevent loss to our people, processes and materials, while ensuring compliance with OSHA regulations, corporate policies, and plant guidelines. Establish plans to deliver and continuously improve key performance indicators in the areas of Safety, Quality, Deliver, Cost and People Development, and provide leadership, supervision, and coordination to ensure that crews establish and sustain respective standards. Strengthen accountability in self-managed teams, maintain positive employee relations, and foster open dialogue through coaching, feedback, and recognition. Build technician capability, support career growth, and ensure the organization attracts, develops, and retains diverse talent. Provide effective leadership for maintenance and process changes to minimize downtime, while driving continuous improvement through lean tools, standard work, and accountability processes. Evaluate engineering recommendations, lead plant/corporate projects to meet cost and profitability goals, and adapt to evolving production requirements. Ensure compliance with internal control systems, policies, and audits while guiding operational improvements and building peer effectiveness. 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 center. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industrial experience required.
• Ability to organize and plan, delegate responsibility and authority, lead and motivate people, and maintain effective employee relations with peers and subordinates.
• 10+ years total experience, with 4+ years of leadership experience in Operations, Engineering or Maintenance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Continuous Improvement and Lean is a plus.
• Candidates must have some previous knowledge in papermaking; UCTAD preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a positive work environment to promote safety, housekeeping, and human relations.
• Ensure that assets are properly managed and maintained.
• Promote continuous improvement in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and team member engagement.
• Actively demonstrate Safety as a value through active leadership, positive influence of mindsets and by identifying and addressing risks to prevent loss to our people, processes and materials, while ensuring compliance with OSHA regulations, corporate policies, and plant guidelines.
• Establish plans to deliver and continuously improve key performance indicators in the areas of Safety, Quality, Deliver, Cost and People Development, and provide leadership, supervision, and coordination to ensure that crews establish and sustain respective standards.
• Strengthen accountability in self-managed teams, maintain positive employee relations, and foster open dialogue through coaching, feedback, and recognition.
• Build technician capability, support career growth, and ensure the organization attracts, develops, and retains diverse talent.
• Provide effective leadership for maintenance and process changes to minimize downtime, while driving continuous improvement through lean tools, standard work, and accountability processes.
• Evaluate engineering recommendations, lead plant/corporate projects to meet cost and profitability goals, and adapt to evolving production requirements.
• Ensure compliance with internal control systems, policies, and audits while guiding operational improvements and building peer effectiveness.

Benefits

• 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 center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
• Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees