Reliability Leader

Reliability Leader

Job Description

Reliability Engineer

Barrow Plant, Barrow-In-Furness

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.  

This role will be part of Kimberly Clark's International Family Care and Professional (IFP) business—an organization rooted in purpose and innovation that has built a legacy with global impact.

As Kimberly-Clark forms a strategic partnership with Suzano to create a world-class international tissue and professional products company, this role is proposed to transfer to the new venture once the transaction closes, anticipated in mid-2026, subject to consultation and other applicable legal requirements.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape a new global leader backed by two industry powerhouses.

You’ll be part of a high-potential business that combines Kimberly-Clark’s iconic brands and commercial excellence with Suzano’s industrial and sustainability leadership.​

In your role as Reliability Leader, you will provide strategic reliability leadership borne through an excellent technical understanding and extensive proven background in engineering maintenance.  You will lead the plant level reliability strategy development and plan execution including leadership of the transformation plan and its associated activities.

You will be responsible for establishing leadership standards for the personnel associated with maintenance and reliability throughout the site, setting the strategy, developing team and leader capabilities, managing the reliability glidepath, and delivering continuous improvement in asset reliability.  This position also ensures maintenance and reliability teams are leveraging the OPEX (operational excellence) continuous improvement process to drive improvements. 

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:


* Manage, lead, resource and develop, the Reliability Team to support a breakthrough step change in asset performance with a principal focus on maintenance planning, scheduling, and pre-shut planning and effective parts staging, right first time, resulting in an improvement to safety, quality, OEE, and maintenance cost reduction to best support the sites assets.


* Manage, lead, resource and develop the Site Shift Technical Team (supported through the Shift Technical Team Leader) to effectively allocate and schedule technical resource to planned and responsive activities to support the sites assets.


* Manage, lead, resource and develop the Engineering Stores team (supported through the Purchasing/Engineer...