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Mill Manager, Tuas



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Reporting to the Supply Chain Director SEA, the Mill Manager is the site lead and provides overall management of the Safety, Production, Engineering, Logistics, QA/PD, and Capability building to achieve World Class Manufacturing objectives. This is to achieve the vision of \xe2\x80\x9csafely producing the highest quality products, to meet the consumer needs for quality, price and availability at the lowest total delivered cost\xe2\x80\x9d.

The Mill Manager provides the leadership in the Country Manufacturing function to meet Kimberly-Clark\xe2\x80\x99s World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Standards to achieve \xe2\x80\x98Best in Class\xe2\x80\x99 results in all the WCM accountabilities. The Mill Manager ensures that the Corporate and Regional strategy is developed with a full understanding of regional & local business needs and external legislative requirements.

In addition, the Mill Manager owns and manages the day-to-day activities of the Mill ensuring alignment and compliance with Corporate and Regional Operations strategy, policies and practices and external government agencies.

The incumbent is expected to actively participate in the Global/Regional Product Supply Network\xe2\x80\x99s benchmarking and sharing best practices in order to continuously improve the product supply capability.

The role sits on the SEA Supply Chain leadership team and is expected to drive partnership in the region. As leader of the cross functional team of 5 direct reports, along with three business partners and manages the entire workforce of ~100 employees. Tuas Mill has manufacturing capabilities for baby care hygiene products of pants and wipes

In your Tuas Mill Manager role, you\xe2\x80\x99ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

About Us:

People have looked to Kimberly-Clark brands for more than 151 years and today we\'re proud to help over a billion people around the world cope, laugh, love and live every day. From the best nappies and baby wipes to the softest tissues, to the best supplies for business, we are constantly searching for new ways to make life better for our consumers, our customers and our planet.

Our leading consumer brands like the Kleenex\xc2\xae, Huggies\xc2\xae, VIVA\xc2\xae, U by Kotex\xc2\xae, Poise\xc2\xae, Depend\xc2\xae brands improve the lives of people around the world. Kimberly-Clark proudly leads the way in providing better care for a better world.

Kimberly-Clark proudly leads the way in providing better care for a better world.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:

• Provide leadership on setting up and implementation of systems, processes, and standards of WCM principles for all relevant departments. To ensure all assets are best utilized giving superior performance with high safety standards as well as optimum customer service level and at minimized manufacturing cost. To ensure mill has proper organizational structure and is managed and run by the best resources in class.
• Provide leadership on ensuring all practices complied to KC global requirements.
• Set 5S Standards beginning with Safety and Product Quality expectations for mill.
• Drive Leader Standard Work processes via GEMBA and Lean Six Sigma best practices including third party vendors operating on the site, checks and drive action to closure
• Manage and control operation budgets (including capital projects) and drives, delivers transformation cost saving opportunities.
• Involve in the Regional/Global Product Supply Network to benchmark and share best practices aiming to continuously improve the manufacturing capability of Kimberly Clark Corporation.
• Provide leadership in setting up and driving company strategies aiming at strengthening and expanding business position of KC corporation.
• Creates, motivates, and leads cross-functional teams across the organization to achieve the objectives of the company.
• Fosters culture of teamwork which values employee engagement and open communication among diverse workforce within the facility and the business as a whole
• Lead systemic approach to workforce planning and succession planning, including identification and development of top talent
• Foster a performance-based culture, including performance standards and career development planning for key talent to enhance the employee value proposition and positively impact employee engagement and retention
• Drive mill Leadership Team to build the High-Performance Work System and World Class Manufacturing Culture/practices in the organization.
• Lead the implementation and continuous execution of performance management process in the mill organization following global/regional directions/policy.
• Develop future generation of mill leadership team as well as of regional/global team aiming at delivering continuously best in class results of WCM objectives.

Ways to Measure Accomplishment: Key indexes on Safety (incident rate, SMART rating), quality level, mill conversion costs, customer service level (conformance to plan), projects completion, people development. Critical operating indexes (productivity, cost saving, people skills and expertise). Company strategies have been met.

Expected End Result: the working environment, which promotes HPWS and WCM culture across the whole Mill Organizations.

Essential Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience in managing operations and leading large organizations with at least 12 years of experience
• Degree in Engineering or other related field with at least 6years exposure in factory management, or other kind of complex industrial operations (e.g., logistics like warehousing and shipping), 2-4 years of which will have been in a Senior Management position.
• Deep understanding of manufacturing fundamentals and hands on knowledge
• Passionate about quality systems management
• Proven track record of developing expense and capital budgets and managing financial performance.
• Excellent communication skills in English in both writing and speaking due to international and matrixed environment.

The role supports the organization by:

• Ability to influence cross function teams to drive decisions which are beneficial to the enterprise
• Inspire, coach and lead teams to influence peers and leaders to the right outcome from a people perspective
• Demonstrating personal passion on delivering on commitments, being action-oriented, having an intense performance orientation
• Showing ability to think and act strategically while delivering operational excellence
• Taking a change agent role within organization and can build and execute large scale change plans.

About You:

You\xe2\x80\x99re driven to 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\xe2\x80\x99re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll 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.

What\xe2\x80\x99s on offer:

Our Kimberly-Clark employees receive a competitive salary and incentives as well as access to a fantastic range of benefits including superannuation, career development opportunities, free health & well-being activities, volunteering leave and much more.

To Be Considered:

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and will be in contact with additional information accordingly.

In the meantime, feel free to browse our website for additional information on our company, brands and culture - .

Kimberly Clark is proudly accredited with as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality WGEA!

Kimberly Clark is proudly ranked by Forbes as \'World\'s Best Employer\' 2021, 2022!

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, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability 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.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role\xe2\x80\x99s country only. K-C will not provide relocation support for this role.

Primary Location Singapore

Additional Locations

Worker Type Employee

Worker Sub-Type Regular

Time Type Full time

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