Digital Manufacturing Leader

Digital Manufacturing Leader

Job Description

You were made to do this work: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision.

You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

Summary of Position: 

The purpose of this role is to own the execution of the KCNA Digital Manufacturing strategy for the plant; focused on equipment, capability building, and value delivery.  He/she will be a technical expert and support the advancement of major digital systems, processes, and capabilities to achieve a highly connected, operationally efficient, and effective manufacturing environment across the plant.  Incumbent will also champion and support all other mobile digital applications used by the site (i.e.

Poka, Seeq, Schedule Pro, etc.), in alignment with other Kimberly-Clark North America facilities.

This role is viewed as an expert in complex application environments, encompassing both business process understanding and technical expertise.

Influential communication, growth mindset, and the ability to strategically navigate at multiple levels of a diverse plant organization are important in this role.  Key stakeholders include, but not limited to, KCNA Supply Chain Digital teams, Plant leaders, DTS, Engineering and Mill teams. 

 

In this role, you will:


* Be the key strategy owner for implementing digital programs for sustaining the long-term growth of the KC digital manufacturing strategy.


* Develop, advise, and recommend long term resolutions to systemic manufacturing problems.


* Technical expert for major digital systems, processes and capabilities (i.e.

SMOM, EWM, etc.)


* Champion & support mobile digital applications (i.e.

Poka, SchedulePro)


* Drive continuous improvement and change management within their system(s) of responsibility to drive efficiency and effectiveness improvements across the organization.


* Analyze the data structure, calculations, and workflow within their major plant systems to leverage, integrate, and optimize systems and people across the supply chain.


* Provide analytical support for the data contained within and generated by the respective manufacturing system.


* Sustain and integrate data historian systems, MES (Manufacturing Execution System), and QMS (Quality Management System).


* Site lead for deployment of SMOM (Smart Manufacturing Operations Management) system, ensuring the success by providing technical expertise and effective facilitation of the process.
+ Develop and maintain data flows into SMOM (manual entries, PLC inputs, etc.) for genera...