Your Job:
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 “safely producing the highest quality products, to meet the consumer needs for quality, price and availability at the lowest total delivered cost”.
The Mill Manager provides the leadership in the Country Manufacturing function to meet Kimberly-Clark’s World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Standards to achieve ‘Best in Class’ 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’s 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
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.