Job Description
Join the team behind iconic brands such as Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, you will find innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.
This is an opportunity to contribute to creating Better Care for a Better World by operating machinery that produces top-notch products for a significant portion of the world's population. You will receive recognition from your manager, support from your team, and see the products you produce being used by your own family.
About You
In this manufacturing role, your focus will be on achieving success with consumers and the market, while prioritizing safety, mutual respect, and human dignity. You will be responsible for maintaining equipment related to the production, packaging, and distribution of Kimberly-Clark products through preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance. This position is part of Kimberly-Clark’s investment in creating new jobs and expanding its capabilities to produce essential premium products for millions of lives globally, including in India.
- Education & Safety Expectations: Candidates must have an ITI in Mechanical / EE / EEE / E&C. You will need to follow all Kimberly-Clark safety rules and guidelines, ensuring your own safety and that of others. This includes conducting periodic safety observations, reporting near misses, unsafe acts, and abnormal conditions promptly. Compliance with risk assessments, SOPs, LOTO, work permits, emergency response plans, safety targets, PCS, and all safety compliances is required.
- Quality, GMP & Customer Focus: Adhere to personal hygiene, workplace hygiene, GMP, Kimberly-Clark quality guidelines, and QMS standards. Maintain a quality-focused mindset, ensuring actions align with customer and consumer expectations, and contribute individually to delivering high-quality products to the market.
- Production & Machine Operations: Responsibilities include handling raw material and packing material preparation, loading, splicing, unloading, material threading, and routing according to defined procedures. You will recheck products after splicing, troubleshoot machine breakdowns, quality defects, and short stops, and conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Maintaining machine and work-area cleanliness and upholding shop-floor 5S are also key.
- Documentation, Traceability & Quality Checks: Maintain material traceability reports, production, and packing logbooks. Perform real-time variable and attribute quality checks for products and packaging, and accurately record all inspection results in quality systems/software and relevant quality documents.
To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
- Production, Machine Operation & Performance: Ensure only confirmed good products are shipped by following non-conforming product quality guidelines, segregation, recheck, and proper hold handling. Set and run machines at centerline and GRS, maintain critical settings, achieve Volume, OEE, Waste, Performance, Quality, and Safety KPIs. Perform pack count/product size/tier changes using QCO lean principles, and ensure accurate data entry for downtime, waste, production, and machine performance in MIS systems.
- Maintenance, Reliability & Lean Practices: Perform Cleaning, Lubrication, Inspection, and Tightening (CLIT); visual health checks including temperature, vibration, greasing, oiling, and abnormality closure. Execute preventive and predictive maintenance, systematic spare replacement, hot-melt cleaning, and focus on lean manufacturing, Kaizen, and continuous improvement to deliver benchmark Safety, Quality, Productivity, Cost, and compliance KPIs.
- Quality Assurance & GMP Compliance: Follow personal and plant hygiene, pest control, and GMP standards. Conduct all quality testing for product verification, address customer complaints, quality defects, and RMPM. Perform real-time inspections, grade change inspections, variable and attribute testing, packing and artwork checks, document results in quality systems, conduct audits (CCPs, QMS, 5S), manage product clearance, hold protocols, and equipment calibration.
- Mechanical Engineering & Spares Management: Manage store inventory systems for spare tracking, issue spares per authorization, and maintain reorder levels based on criticality, lead time, and frequency. Perform overhauling of units/modules, stock counts, 5S activities, store audits, hot-melt part refurbishment, inkjet coding machine maintenance, and support PM and changeover activities.
- Utility, Electrical & Infrastructure Operations: Operate and maintain utilities and electrical systems including Transformers, HT/LT, DG sets, compressors, chillers, AHU, WTP, STP, cooling towers, firefighting systems, pump rooms, UPS, VFDs, motors, ensuring uninterrupted mill operations. Maintain reports, preventive schedules, panels, new project installations, BMS, and EMS.
- Safety, Compliance & Operational Excellence: Ensure equipment reliability, operational safety, energy efficiency, and compliance through disciplined execution of procedures, preventive schedules, audits, continuous monitoring, and cross-functional support to maintain high equipment availability and plant performance.
