Shift Manager
Permanent, Full time
Location: Northfleet Mill, Kent
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.
The Shift Manager is responsible and accountable for delivering safely and with quality all operational metrics across the site whilst ensuring compliance with company standards. The Shift Manager leads the team and has strong communication and connections with all the shift team and the key day work leaders through the shift. This role reports to the Operations Manager at Northfleet Mill.
In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
* Ensure that the shift operational team is managed safely, coaching teams to achieve site Safety, Quality, Delivery & Cost KIPs through clear processes and standard work including problem solving.
* Work with and engage in all of KC’s Safety, Quality & Delivery systems and processes.
* Ensure adherence to agreed asset performance targets and production plans and react to off-target issues with Asset or behavioral within your team.
* Utilize Lean thinking and Leader standard work to ensure continuous improvement through application of lean tools and techniques.
* Connect with people and identify and address People opportunities through implementing improvement plans.
* Improve and comply with Asset reliability tools in accordance with production requirements.
* Use Shift technical resources for reactive and proactive work such as Reliability work list priorities and job if down do work.
* Report and complete reports for unsafe conditions and behaviors using site systems including accident investigations and fires.
* Complete end of shift handovers and ensure the shift team complies with Tier 1 & Tier 2 processes across the site.
* Responsible for ensuring that machines operate to agreed centerlines and general compliance with Standard work.
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. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.
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. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
* Significant experience in a People Lead position or a similar role which shows leadership experience.
* Knowledge of a broad range of Paper making industry and safety standards.
* Good understanding of Quality management and LEAN World Class Manufacturing Principles.
* Must be IT literate.
* Lean / Problem solving experience is desirable.
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 center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
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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