Latest Job Openings at Kimberly-Clark (14 Positions)

Job Description

• To ensure Diaper Manufacturing Operations’ assets are managed, maintained and operated at their maximum efficiencies at all times and that the manufacturing processes on all assets are always under control and continuously improved such that improved quality and higher efficiencies are attained.

Main Responsibilities

• Ensure assets are maintained in a “Safe to operate” condition at all times while promoting all aspects of safe working practices to meet all safety and housekeeping objectives of the plant.
• To optimize the Diaper Manufacturing process through the design of new electrical/electronic process control systems together with optimization/maintenance of existing process control systems in order to achieve optimum plant and process reliability.
• To plan, organize and control Electrical Projects.
• Identify issues and opportunities for improvement through modifications and upgrades.
• Manage changes in process requirements brought by changes in product specifications and productivity requirements.
• Train, develop and up skill personnel by means of on the job as well as technical and generic training.
• Communications – provide relevant and timely communications at all levels.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a BSc / HND in Electrical Engineering or equivalent tertiary education.
• Minimum of 5 years previous engineering and maintenance experience in FMCG environment

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• The role manages Shift Electrical Technicans.

Job Description

• The purpose of the role is to work with the maintenance / engineering team in the planning and scheduling of maintenance activities to ensure the effectiveness of plant equipment is maintained to world-class standards

Main Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance task planning and work order management.
• Work request approval, Updating work orders to accurately reflect current work and reviewing daily new work orders.
• Development and preparation of task work packages
• Identification and allocation of resources for maintenance activities
• Staging of parts in conjunction with the Engineering Stores team
• Plan, develop and confirm asset inspections and standard work associated with equipment condition
• Collaborate with mill production team and asset leaders to identify appropriate maintenance scheduled activities.
• Support coordination of materials with planned maintenance engineers, technicians and teams through the development of tasks packages,
• Ensure work packs are available prior to the commencement of maintenance tasks.
• Support daily maintenance meetings, attending weekly management meetings to schedule work orders in the correct time period
• Prepare work packages in anticipation of short shut opportunities. Obtaining quotes for materials and services, Order materials and services in SAP following pre-approval.
• Ensure that statutory inspections are scheduled and completed to ensure site compliance.
• Schedule maintenance activities to ensure minimal disruption to production processes.
• Working with Mechanical and Electrical Engineer to order and maintain the correct level of consumables on site.
• Agreeing work scope with subcontractors and obtaining quotes against them

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in either Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Industrial Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years previous engineering and maintenance experience in FMCG environment
• PC Literate
• SAP maintenance management system working knowledge will be an added advantage.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• For the new mill in Lagos.

Job Description

• The Lean leader who leads the Lean Initiative within the facility is accountable for driving behavior change which will sustain continuous improvement programs across the Lagos Mill by providing expertise, guidance and support to the operations and mill teams, while ensuring at all times that assets are operated at world class standards in the areas of safety, quality and cost.
• To be an active and integral member of the Senior Operations Leadership Team (SOLT). Providing input on strategic and tactical plans for the Plant

Main Responsibilities

• Principle accountability is to drive the lean behavior change in operations including support functions through coaching and influencing.
• Analyzes production and operational processes and provides recommendations for improvement in line with lean principles. Drives approval of the recommendations and prioritization of the resulting initiatives
• Develop and implement best practice management, Drive lean Practices across the entire facility, by driving behavioral change across the facility that embraces Lean principles.
• Create an environment of continuous improvement through empowerment, education and training.
• Develop a sense of belonging by creating a workplace that encourages high involvement and maximizes the capabilities of team and individuals. Focus on identifying potential leaders through KC Culture demonstration: 6 main behaviors in our culture: win consistently, continuously improve, build trust, build talent, make decisions, think customer. 4 values: caring, accountability, innovation, authentic.
• Demonstrates leader as teacher concept and practices and coaches on lean mental models.
• Ensure compliance with the expenditure budget allocated.
• To build a close partnership with the center of excellence functions within KC, related to the lean agenda.
• Annually develop lean roadmap / master plan for the entire site and provide assistance for the execution thereof.
• Deliver a clear understanding of the requirements for the lean journey necessary to build a productive environment that improves productivity, delivery and improve safety, quality and cost.
• Ensure efficient use of the global communication platforms to fill the local pipeline with new ideas and best practices, as well as providing the global plant network with local lean success stories and initiatives.
• Maintain a relentless focus on waste reduction and process efficiency improvements
• Drive and educate individuals on Problem-solving technics, 4SPS and A3 development

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with relevant 5 years Lean experience. OR 10 years in a leadership position in leading an Operations or a Technical team with excellent experience in leading continuous improvement programs.
• Good track record of Lean Processes, min 5 years, advanced level
• Excellent business acumen, Change management skills, and Excellent Leadership skills
• Project Management Skills.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• This is a previously existing role which is now required in the new Mill.

Job Description

• To manage and control the total Logistic operation for Lagos Mill and support mill operations by providing a high quality materials management service, accurate inventory control and effective personnel deployment, in order to achieve both the facility and corporate business objectives.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible to enforce safe and environmentally sound working conditions and practices (include setting up and meeting the Mill SHEQ objectives) within area of responsibility.
• Develop and optimize effective, accurate and measurable documented processes, to ensure conformances to ISO 18000 and 14000
• Ensure quality and customer service of materials supplied to the departments and the palletized finished goods shipped are always acceptable to the customer.
• Manage the mill logistic department inline with agreed budget
• Manage and Control all inventory within area of responsibility inline with CFI requirements and business objectives
• Identify, develop & implement plans to optimize zzlogistic processes (both internally & externally) with materials vendors, production and distribution teams to reduce costs and improve internal customer service.
• Ensure that Logistics function is staffed with the required caliber and number of personnel to meet the business objectives and that these employees are trained and developed to meet current and future accountabilities, while maintaining sound industrial relations at all times.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain Management or Business Accreditation
• Minimum 10 Years experience in a FMCG – working in SAP/R3 environment of which at least 3- 5 years must have been carried out at a middle management level
• Advance knowledge, experience & understanding of integrated business systems, applications & concepts, plus advanced level of Microsoft Office literacy
• Must have demonstrated strong leadership qualities inline with recognised policies and practices

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• A role in the new Mill.

Job Description

• The Shift Electrical Technician together with other technicians provides process and technical support to the machine crews in order to maintain and optimize asset process stability and develop crew’s process knowledge to achieve safety, quality and productivity targets.

Main Responsibilities
Safety:

• Ensure compliance to all departmental and plant safety rules and regulations
• All non-conformances should be dealt with immediately all unresolved issues must be raised with Asset Leader
• Follow the correct WI/WP and Process Instruction for all tasks performed
• Carry out continual development of process optimization to ensure safety.

Productivity:

• To support production within the diaper operation by providing electrical technical support to the production teams.
• To carry out action plans as directed in order to solve problems thereby minimizing electrical delay.
• Analyze electrical delay and together with Day Electrical Technician resolve problems from electrical/electronic nature to ensure minimum delay.
• Work with change over’s on the asset in order to minimize change over delay
• To continuously work on improvement plans to upgrade/improve the asset performance and capability.
• Ensure all documentation, including drive and PLC data is recorded properly and systematically to provide optimum reliability of the asset.

Maintenance:

• To participate in maintenance activities on all electrical equipment and installation.
• To ensure that electrical spares are available and ready for use when required.
• To provide assistance with standardization, recommendation of changes in maintenance policies, fault finding and problem solving.
• Recommend spares requirements to the Electrical Engineer.
• Provide technical information to maintenance teams detailing work requests for planned and reactive maintenance

Housekeeping:

• Maintain 5S housekeeping principles in the department at all times, including all equipment and surrounds.  Ensure all unused items are removed from the operating area and stored correctly.

Qualifications

• Higher National Diploma HND or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years experience on high-speed production equipment, of which at least 3 years must be process experience.
• Strong Electrical background / experience
• Practical mechanical maintenance experience is an advantage

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• The role is for the new Mill in Lagos.

Job Description

• The Inventory Officer RM WH is key to accurate material stocks and consumption at the mill shop floor and in the SAP R/3 system. The main purpose is to ensure that system stocks of materials and finishing supplies are fully aligned to physical stocks in the mill.
• To ensure this is the case, the main responsibility of the Inventory Officer RM WH is to declare finished products in a timely manner, check and solve back-flushing errors and analyze system consumption vs actual consumption (via regular stock counts) to track BOM in-accuracies and to drive accurate product costing.
• As part of capturing actual production volumes and material consumption the Inventory Officer RM WH also has to enter machine hours into SAP provided by Operations
• The Inventory Officer RM WH also has to ensure that materials required for production are called off from the warehouse (4961) in a time for production via STO in R/3 (4960- production plant)

Main Responsibilities
Production declaration:

• Declares production in a timely manner based on information provided from operations

Material consumption:

• Reviews back-flushing error report (COGI) daily and solves errors in report (in collaboration with planning / operations / finance)
• Does frequent material stock counts at shop floor and adjusts system stocks to match actual stocks
• Reviews & analyses count differences and shares outcomes with Mill planning and operations to drive data & BOM accuracy

​Machine hour recording:

• Enters machine hours provided by Operations into SAP
• Material Supply to operations:
• Calls of raw materials,& finishing supplies form from Warehouse (Lagos DC) 4961 via STO in SAP to (Lagos Diaper Plant 4960)

Material returns:

• Returns materials back to the warehouse(4961) via an STO in SAP from Diaper plant (4960)

R/3 once a week (once a day)

Qualifications

• National Diploma ND in either Commercial, Social Science, or Engineering Field.
• Experience in Warehousing / Materials handling & management
• Computer skills (Excel, Word etc essential)
• Basic SAP knowledge

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• A role in the new mill Lagos Nigeria.

Job Description

• To provide a high level area support and perform as part of the team to ensure that safety, quality, productivity standards are maintained and housekeeping are maintained to the required standards in an environment of continual improvement.

Main Responsibilities

• Complies with all safety rules, procedures and works instructions.
• Maintain a high standard of housekeeping and hygiene in the department and follow 5S Housekeeping principles.
• Ensures that area equipment are in base condition and runs to deliver target area results in terms of stops, breakdowns and downtime.
• Develop troubleshooting guide for FCO area equipment
• Develop work instructions for area equipment and units
• Ensures area process audit is done and properly documented
• Report PA outages and follow up with the process engineer and process specialist to close out all outages.
• Communicate best operating practice across all shift
• Lead the trouble shooting and problem solving on all modules in this section.
• Build the capability of area operators through regular coaching.
• To monitor the availability of spare parts in the warehouse and, if no specific parts are found, immediately notify the mechanical engineer
• Perform modular process health checks in-line with center-lining guidelines.
• To analyze breakdowns and failures, downtime, reliability of equipment, identify problem nodes, if possible, to eliminate inconsistencies.
• Compile all area issues and reasons for stops and provide a proper update at the support meeting
• Lead and actively participate in all work and repairs which are carried out in FCO section by the support teams
• Initiate and ensure proper maintenance and improvement of area equipment.
• Adjust the schedule of planned maintenance in the event of an emergency equipment failure and investigate the incident with a precautionary plan.
• Ensure equipment and area centreline is maintained at all times
• Timely provide update on the changes and improvements made to operating teams and shift technicians
• To provide clarifications and training for operators and contractors on how to carry out work and operation of equipment safely, and to carry out repairs.
• Lead changeover activities of area equipment and ensure work is completed without rework.

Qualifications

• Higher National Diploma (HND) in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience on high-speed production equipment.
• Prior high-speed production machine maintenance or operating experience, especially on Diaper machines will be advantageous.
• Computer Literate.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• A role in the new Mill.

Job Description

• Provide Engineering spares support for Operations department to ensure EHS, quality, productivity and cost objectives are achieved.

Main Responsibilities

• Inventory control – Keep inventory as low as possible by applying strict rules and regulations regarding stocking new items
• Work very close with procurement by maintaining last item issued list and request expediting of stock.
• Daily stock records & reporting
• Maintain SAP records by updating bin allocations/part numbers/descriptions/min & max levels
• Create new material numbers.
• Assist team members with queries.
• Receive goods when required.
• Check MB51 report to confirm correct capturing of invoices/material requests
• Review internal controls procedures when required.
• Scrutinize dispatch notes for stock and non-stock send out for repairs/replacement. Follow up with end users for PR/PO numbers. Close of document once item is returned
• Create manual PR’s when required.
• Report back to Engineering Manager on a monthly basis regarding out of stock issues (Complete a document for each incident and attach relevant communication and corrective action taken).  This includes the MB51 checks and issues picked up with MR/Invoices
• Do 5 daily spot checks on stock delivered – Report to Engineering Manager monthly.
• Do spot checks on material request to confirm bin cards are updated (Use MR’s submitted with MB51) – Report to Engineering Manager monthly
• Conduct weekly meetings (Monday/Wednesday/Friday) regarding: Safety & Housekeeping/HR issues/Cycle counts/Receiving/Out of stock issues/General
• Authorize and scrutinize cycle counts (confirm that cycle count documents are signed by inventory controller/material handler).

Qualifications

• Minimum of B.Sc or equivalent in Engineering Discipline with 5 years’ experience in FMCG environment.
• Computer literate – SAP, Microsoft Excel/Outlook/Word
• Excellent communication skills.
• A sound knowledge and experience of procurement principles and inventory control are

key requirement:

• Accounting background will be an advantage – Recon and balancing of stock

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• A role in the new Mill.

Job Description

• Perform as part of the shift team to ensure that safety, quality, productivity and housekeeping are maintained to the required standards in an environment of continual improvement.

Main Responsibilities

• Complies with all safety rules, procedures and works instructions.
• Maintain a high standard of housekeeping and hygiene in the department and follow 5S Housekeeping principles.
• Checks that raw materials that enter his/her sector correspond with required material of the product manufactured and return raw materials not in use after a change of grade and/or product.
• Loads SAM bags onto the SAM hopper
• Loads the Pulp reels onto the Pulp Unwind.
• Prepares splices for the pulp unwind.
• Loads adhesives into the adhesive melters.
• Participate in trouble shooting and problem solving on all modules in this section.
• Capture data regarding machine waste and delay and communicates this to the MOP for documentation and to effectively use this information for analysis and decision making on preventative actions.
• Perform modular process health checks in-line with centerlining guidelines.
• Acts as cover for any other operator when required.
• Control material usage to minimise waste and material cost
• Knows and actively participate in all work and repairs which are carried out in his/her sector by the support teams
• Reports and informs team leader of the maintenance and improvement required of his sector.
• Operates the MID section of the diaper machine at target speeds to achieve rate of operation targets. (MDH, Waste,Delay,Ti, Ci,ppm)
• During shift changes, communicates to the incoming operator all new occurrences, repairs, process changes and materials issues.

Qualifications

• National Diploma ND/C&G 1/Trade Test Grade 3 qualification in either Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience on high-speed production equipment, of which at least 2 years must be process experience.
• Prior high-speed production machine maintenance or operating experience, especially on Diaper machines will be advantageous.
• Computer Literate

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• A role in the new mill. It is open to all eligible citizens of Nigeria.

Main Responsibilities
Administrative procedures and presentation support, including:

• Diary management, meeting bookings and documentation preparation, attending meetings and taking minutes, arranging refreshments etc.
• Travel arrangements and claim management for the Operations Director, and travel management for all international visitors e.g. Visas, invite letters, etc.
• Venue and conference bookings
• General administration e.g. filing, faxes, correspondence,  stationary,  telephone calls,
• Compile weekly and monthly stats reports
• SAP purchase order control and management.
• Presentation preparation, collating of required information for presentation content, co-ordination of sources.

Administrative procedures and assistance to the Operations Team:

• Administrative functions, SAP purchase orders, travel arrangements, meeting venue booking
• Stationery ordering
• Effectively manage account by:-
• Process all purchase orders on SAP, keep PO register and reconcile invoices against PO’s.
• Liaison with consultant house to ensure all information on invoices are as per PO, and on time payment according to Ts & Cs

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years office experience preferably within a corporate environment.
• High level of proficiency on MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook), and MS Project.
• SAP knowledge an added advantage.
• Strong inter-personal skills are imperative.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• New Lagos Mill role.

Job Description

• To ensure that all materials and goods deliveries are received and returns processed and all related transactions are updated timely in the SAP/ERP system, adhering to the procedures set out by KC.

Main Responsibilities

• Receives and checks all goods and materials as per supplier’s delivery note and carry out all documentations required.
• Generate material documents by entering received goods into SAP/ERP.
• Carry out cycle counts on all inventory items.
• Forward receiving documents to Functional Buyer.
• Coordinating the offloading of goods and materials from delivery vehicles.
• Communicate materials received to all interfaces involved
• Update all reconciliation of all material usage
• Liaise with administrative staff, production floor members, team leaders, managers and external customers.
• Adhere to safety and housekeeping policies / procedures.
• Provide training to new staff members if requested.

Qualifications

• National Diploma (ND) in either Statistics, Mathematics or any Engineering field.
• PC Literate
• Knowledge of SAP and good telephone and general communication skills.
• 2-3 years’ experience in materials handling and receiving.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• A role in the new Lagos Mill.

Job Description

• To provide plant leadership on a 24/7 shift basis to ensure plant objectives are achieved.
• The shift manager is fully accountable for the day to day running of the plant from a safety, quality, and cost perspective whilst on shift.
• All employees and machine leaders on shift will take direction from the shift manager.

Safety:

• Promote a safe working environment through driving compliance with Safety policies and procedures.
• Lead the plant BCC team in the event of an incident, and invoke crisis management procedures should a sentinel event occur.
• First line incident investigation.
• Control site access.
• Highlighting and managing non-compliance with our Environmental Management Plan.

Quality:

• Ensure the quality management system is implemented by the shift team and targets are met.  Where targets are not being met, to enact the escalation procedure.

Housekeeping:

• Maintain world class levels of housekeeping according to the 5’shousekeeping standards

Cost:

• Ensure conformance with the production plan.
• Highlighting opportunities in the plant with prompt action to correct issue
• Continuously monitoring of mill performance on all assets.
• Manage shift resource to achieve production targets for ROO and Waste. Provide first line support through utilization of the shift support team. Where necessary, use the escalation procedure to obtain the necessary support.
• Controlling of labor to budget levels.
• Manage material consumption on shift to budget levels or better.
• Manage consumption of operating supplies on shift to budget levels or better.
• Manage maintenance supplies to budget levels or better.
• Manage and co-ordinate 1st line trouble shooting on shift
• Ensure that sections start-up as per plan after a shutdown/outage

Communication:

• Communicating important matters from management and raise matters from the operator level to senior management.
• Ensure high level of standardized and effective visual management
• Communicate plan to actuals in daily report
• Lead morning meeting with cross functional team.
• Coordinating corrective action plans as issues raises from morning meeting

People:

• Personal accountability for performance, engagement, attraction, diversity and inclusion of teams
• Ensure that the shift teams have the right skills to operate the facility. Liaise with Day Operations / L&D to ensure operators are capable and training plan is delivered.
• Coach and develop the shift teams using a leader as teacher methodology.
• Assist Production Manager in managing performance through GPM or bargaining unit performance management system.
• Manage absenteeism through effective and consistent utilization of HR systems to correct misconduct.
• Assist the Production Manager in managing the manning plan and leave roaster to ensure assets are adequately manned on a tour by tour basis.
• Managing weekend support teams through facilitating standby meetings
• Drive the mind set of people to pursue company winning culture through contagious positive energy
• Manage behavior of all operating crews from shift to shift.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering
• Must have at least 3-years’ experience in a leadership position.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience on high-speed production equipment, of which at least 3 years must be process experience.
• Prior high-speed production machine maintenance or operating experience, especially on Diaper machines will be advantageous.
• Must be PC Literate with basic knowledge of Excel, Word and Power point.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• A role in the new Mill.

Job Description

• Provide Engineering spares support for Operations department to ensure EHS, quality, productivity and cost objectives are achieved.

Main Responsibilities

• Promptly processing of customer requests to amend item descriptions, review stock levels & timeout ordering of additional materials for shutdown purposes.
• Stock transfers via Transaction SAP code from duplicated items & subsequent request to OTS Europe to delete items.
• Review customer request for re-instatement of items and subsequent communication to OTS to De-flag.
• Scrutinizing material Records for duplicate records, incorrect base units of measure, incomplete description & incorrect material types.
• Process request for re-classification of items e.g. Standard spares to reparable item and forward to Store leader for loading.
• Arrange the de-flagging of items to enable processing of corrections required by casting, followed by requesting deletion.
• Routing all material master amendments to Store Leader for capturing.
• Verifying entries on SAP to ensure accuracy.
• Daily stock records & reporting
• Maintain SAP records by updating bin allocations/part numbers/descriptions/min & max levels
• Assist team members with queries.
• Receive goods when required.
• Check MB51 report to confirm correct capturing of invoices/material requests
• Review internal controls procedures when required.
• Scrutinize dispatch notes for stock and non-stock send out for repairs/replacement.  Follow up with end users for PR/PO numbers.  Close of document once item is returned
• Report back to Engineering Manager on a monthly basis regarding out of stock issues (Complete a document for each incident and attach relevant communication and corrective action taken).  This includes the MB51 checks and issues picked up with MR/Invoices
• Do 5 daily spot checks on stock delivered – Report to Engineering Manager monthly.
• Do a regular checks on material request to confirm bin cards are updated (Use MR’s submitted with MB51) – Report to Engineering Manager monthly
• Attend weekly meetings regarding: Safety & Housekeeping/HR issues/Cycle counts/Receiving/Out of stock issues/General

Qualifications

• National Diploma or equivalent in Engineering Discipline with 5 years’ experience in FMCG environment.
• Computer literate – SAP, Microsoft Excel/Outlook/Word
• Excellent communication skills.
• A sound knowledge and experience of procurement principles and inventory control are key requirements.
• Accounting background will be an advantage – Recon and balancing of stock

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• A role in the new Lagos Mill.

Job Description

• To ensure all products converted and packed meets the ISO 9001 quality standards.
• Assist production crew to perform to departmental/machine objectives.
• Ensure Safety and Housekeeping standards are adhered to.

Main Responsibilities

• Follow safe operating practises when packing and palletizing at machines, by ensuring guarding is in place and to follow works instructions.
• Monitor the activity of the packing robots and ensure all packing and palletizing materials are in place
• Maintain high levels of hygiene and housekeeping in department.
• Pack produced products in such a way to meet overall machine output and waste targets.
• Participate in problem solving techniques to ensure machine efficiencies
• Ensure that all products packed adhered to product specifications.
• Participate in team meetings.

Qualifications

• National Diploma ND or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 3 years’ experience on high-speed production equipment, of which at least 2 years must be process experience.
• Prior high-speed production machine maintenance or operating experience, especially on Diaper machines will be advantageous.
• Minimum of one year experience in packing environment with high speed FMCG equipment.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• For the new mill in Lagos.