Capital Sustaining

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 is responsible for creating and driving the Enterprise Capital Sustaining and Standards Strategy, with focus on optimizing the Enterprise sustaining capital portfolio and driving development/adherence to major project standards.

**In this role, you will**:

- Create and execute a five-year Sustaining Capital and Infrastructure Strategy with proactive approaches to manage ~$300MM spend and drive efficiencies, while ensuring a healthy operational environment in our manufacturing facilities in partnership with REFM.
- Drives processes for both Standards Playbook adherence and sustaining capital allocation governance with project engineering, the manufacturing facilities and Segment leadership globally.
- Drives creation of or clarity surrounding all building and construction standards or specifications for manufacturing facilities, warehouses, RDC’s etc.
- Ensures cost efficiencies, best practice models, and new ways of working are built into new projects and the Sustaining Capital Strategy and executed Globally. Scope covers capital classes 4,5 & 6 with focus on class 5.
- Ensure adherence to use of allocated capital within the prioritized areas and addresses any off cycle, emergency, or urgent needs to meet the ongoing operational needs of the business.
- Partner with REFM team to drive standardization in managing sustaining operational requirements across our facilities. Identifying improvements in the management/ maintenance of our facilities through monitoring industry standards, technology and process improvements.
- Ensures management of risk (in partnership with Global Risk Management) for all projects, to meet risk and compliance requirements while being as cost effective as possible.
- Collaborate with diverse and geographically dispersed team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, best practice sharing/adoption and innovation
- Build and sustain cross-functional and global relationships to accomplish objectives including partnerships with Segment/ABU/functional teams.

**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 professional 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, Construction, Supply Chain Management or related field.
- Demonstrated expertise leading and delivering facility and infrastructure related capital projects & decisions in partnership with both internal partners and external entities.
- Experience in Project Management, cost estimating and value engineering.
- Understanding of basic construction/building code requirements leveraged in manufacturing and production facilities.
- Technical knowledge of production asset technology, having had input to asset/safety standards across both Personal Care & Tissue platforms.
- Proficient knowledge of global manufacturing trends and best practices in capital project management.
- Strong financial & business acumen.
- Ability to lead and influence without authority in a matrixed organization and hierarchy.
- Experience in implementing sustainable and environmental-e