Shift Manager Position at Kimberly-Clark

Shift Manager Position at Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 150 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people – nearly a quarter of the world’s population – trust K-C brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene, and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds No.1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries. With a 135-year history of innovation, we believe in recruiting the best people and putting them in the right jobs so that they can do their best work. If original thinking and a passion to win inspire you, come Unleash Your Power at Kimberly-Clark.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Shift Manager

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Worker Type: Employee
Worker Sub-Type: Regular
Time Type: Full time

Job Description
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 labour 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 roster 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.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum of a Degree in (Chemical/Electrical/Mechanical/Production) Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 Years’ Experience Leading Teams.
• Experience in managing a complex shift environment.
• Experience in diaper manufacturing will be an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

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Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. K-C will not provide relocation support for this role.