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Permanent, Full Time
Location: Barrow Plant, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Competitive Salary + Benefits
You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
Job Description
Continuous Improvement Consultant
Permanent, Full Time
Location: Barrow Plant, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Competitive Salary + Benefits
You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
This role is responsible for providing leadership, coordination and direction to the mill teams for elements of the development, introduction and sustainability of a continuous improvement culture leveraging proven principles, systems and tools.
This role will be responsible for but not limited to:
* Facilitate, promote and support a continuous improvement culture at Barrow mill including, leveraging proven systems, tools and techniques
* CI SME - Coaching and development of leadership teams in CI thinking, tools and systems supporting a multi-year site wide transformation effort
* Enable deployment of proven CI tools throughout the mill organisation
* Working with the CI leader team and Manufacturing Excellence team to support strategy deployment processes within the mill.
* Work with the COE to develop, facilitate and manage the introduction of new tools within the mill to counteract identified problems and challenges
* Ensure existing CI and One KC Manufacturing activities (e.g. centre-lining, TPM, and RFS) are interlinked and encapsulated within the transformation effort to provide a coherent framework to the mill
* Support the EMEA CI transformation roadmap, providing a link between the mills and sector resources with regards CI activities
* Full compliance with corporate policies and government health and safety regulations
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, well being, 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.
Qualifications
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:
* HND (preferably with more of a technical focus)
* LEAN qualification would be advantageous
* Understanding of operations and operating principles
* Thorough understanding of CI/ Lean manufacturing principles and tools
* Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
* Ability to constructively challenge existing practices and procedures
* Networking skills – both internal and external to the mill
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.
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.
Primary Location
Barrow Mill
Additional Locations
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Management and Manufacturing
* Industries
Manufacturing
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