Plant Manager

Plant Manager Job Description Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®.  At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

SUMMARY: Manage the Ogden, UT manufacturing facility to achieve all operational objectives for safety, quality, customer service, cost, asset management, and human resources development.   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 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. Job responsibilities include: Provides a safe work environment for all employees.  Promotes plant safety through education of employees, creation of safety programs and incentives, and adhering to all safety rules, policies and obligations. Deliver on customer service expectations with on time and in full shipments while meeting all product specifications and the highest quality standards.  Ensure ongoing customer satisfaction by establishing relationships with customers to understand their product and consumer needs.  Develop and maintain process control programs that eliminate disruptive quality events.    Manage the overall production and distribution operations in conformance with established policies, procedures, guidelines, budgets, standards and/or specifications, to ensure achievement of all plant objectives.  Leverage K-C One Behaviors and Culture of Accountability to drive results in a positive and engaging manner. Establish and maintain an optimum plant organization, with people plans that will ensure the organization is adequately staffed with qualified, trained, and motivated people to meet current and future requirements and that will ensure the development of all employees to the maximum of their potential. Provide the vision to develop and implement a world class manufacturing organization with supporting programs that will ensure continuity of a competitive and profitable operation in the changing business environment of the future.  Develop and implement continuing cost improvement plans and programs that will ensure continuity of a competitive and profitable manufacturing facility. Develop and maintain a favorable employee relations climate that will result in all employees considering their plant a fair and equitable place of employment with opportunity for personal development and advancement. Establish and maintain working conditions and high levels of housekeeping, appearance, physical conditions and sanitation with positive employee attitudes that will ensure full compliance with government regulations and corporate policies and achievement of safety and good manufacturing practices objectives.  Develop and maintain high levels of quality awareness that will assure conformance to product specifications. Provide leadership to ensure the organization attracts, develops, and retains the best people and fosters an environment which motivates a diverse team to fully use its capabilities in achieving desired business results. Ensure application of established Corporate and Sector financial controls within the mill by providing operating management direction and support to the implementation and maintenance of financial policies, instructions, and internal control procedures. Ensure the communication, implementation and promotion of the World Class Manufacturing values, vision, mission and foundations as a means for delivering excellence in