Capex & Sustainability Engineering Leader

Capex & Sustainability Engineering Leader

Job Description

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

As a Capex & Sustainability Engineering Leader, you will facilitate short term & long-term capex plan building process, supporting analysis and recommendations to support business plans and growth ambitions for Enterprise Markets (EM) along with key stakeholders from finance, engineering & supply chain (SC) directors. You will also lead the efforts in helping team in formulate right solutions for product upgrades, innovations, speed up or other technology upgrades in line with business needs. You will lead the manufacturing and packaging automation to drive cost as well as response time to market while reducing the resource footprint. You will be working closely with Safety and quality leaders to ensure that necessary improvements and learnings from past are incorporated & necessary capital resources are allocated to improvements planned. Regular reviews to ensure timely spending and the compliance to guidelines will be a key responsibility. Along with this getting the right knowledge of technology upgrades and solutions available externally will be also expected from the role.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and lead short/long term Capex plan for EM sites with the help of key stakeholders in the market. Define strategic vision for EM in key areas of spend. Provide support to sectors for capex plan assessment with EM leaders.

• Act as a regional point of contact to ensure the right spend plans are prepared & internally reviewed & audited periodically for compliance by right stakeholders.

• Bring harmonization in global and regional practices to maximize the prudent use capital across sectors to meet the business ambitions.

• Lead the efforts in helping team in formulate right solutions for product upgrades, innovations, speed up or other technology upgrades in line with business needs.

• Lead the manufacturing & packaging automation to drive cost as well as response time to market while reducing the resource footprint.

• Be working closely with Safety & quality leaders to ensure that necessary improvements & learnings from past are incorporated & necessary capital resources are allocated to improvements planned.

• Hold regular reviews to ensure timely spending & the compliance to guidelines.

• Also be getting the right knowledge of technology upgrades & solutions available externally.

• Manage the Score cards and keep track of our performance & post spend reviews diligently.

• Influence and drive regional bench marking strategy to reduce capital cost by deep diving each cost elements with engineering & procurement teams and work on the improvement.

• Work closely with safety & Quality teams to identify improvements requiring capital investment

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our manufacturing roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations management, or related field; Advanced degree / MBA preferred.

• Proficient in manufacturing engineering technologies, asset design principles, setting up factory with strong understanding of project management, six sigma methodologies, and other process improvement techniques.

• Proven experience in managing complex projects, capital management – specifically in CPG, B2C industry with proven track record of delivering projects in time within given cost constraints.

• Experience in end-to-end innovation cycles, product/process design, DtV, and international markets working experience will be preferred.

• SLT level communications (storytelling and structuring) and interpersonal skills.

• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights. Resourceful with ability to build alternatives.

• Change management experience, with a track record of driving results within constraints will be essential to deliver measurable business outcomes.

• Willingness to travel for onsite assessments, collaboration with engineering teams and sectors globally. Working experience with OEMs & vendors effectively.

To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.

And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

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Primary LocationIndia - Pune

Additional LocationsCosta Rica - San Jose, Czech Republic- Jaromer, Czech Republic -Litovel, Vietnam - Binh Duong

Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time