Plant Environment and Sustainability Leader

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.

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.

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Legal Compliance Management : Interpret, understand, and continuously monitor/manage changing implications of relevant legal requirements applicable to site activities and operations.
• Complex Risk Assessmen t: Able to identify and understand complex environmental hazards, assess associated risks, and develop similar skills and capabilities in others.
• Subject Matter Expertise : Stay skilled in pertinent environmental and sustainability subjects, particularly those covered by K-C OH&S and E&S Performance Standards and linked to operation-specific risks.
• Leadership in Incident Management : Participate in environmental incident investigations and conduct causal analyses while building similar skills and capabilities in others.
• Training Development and Delivery: Develop, deliver, and train others across a broad spectrum of OH&S and E&S topics relevant to moderately complex operations.
• Program Maturity Assessments : Conduct routine checks/self-assessments of the site's environmental and sustainability program maturity and performance in moderately complex operations.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrate relevant leadership skills related to accountability, positive role modeling, and commitment as per the Leadership Curriculum.
• Technological Acumen : Leverage data and digital systems/platforms to improve decision-making and problem-solving. Address technological advancements, such as automation, as relevant to tasks/duties of the role.
• Project Management and Change Management : Exhibit capabilities in project management and managing change effectively.
• Lean Mindset and Collaboration : Role model a lean mindset, emphasizing continuous improvement and value to the customer. Embrace a "go to where the work happens" attitude. Demonstrate strong collaboration and relationship-building skills.
• Manufacturing Planning/Execution/Capital Allocation : Possess familiarity with manufacturing planning, execution, and capital allocation processes.

ESSENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Compliance Assurance:

• Ensure the site's compliant with K-C and regulatory controls and requirements related to environmental matters.

OH&S and E&S Management System:

• Act as the functional owner and facilitate the implementation of the environmental and sustainability components within the site’s OH&S and E&S Management System.

Risk Management:

• Identify environmental aspects, hazards, emerging requirements, etc., and verify that they are managed to acceptable levels of risk or impact.

Objective Setting:

• Define the environmental and sustainability objectives for the site and assess the effectiveness of performance.

Program Maturity:

• Lead the facility's initiatives to improve the maturity of the environmental and sustainability programs.

Global and Regional Strategies:

• Effectively implements Global and Region/BU Environmental and Sustainability strategies.

Event Investigations:

• Assist in environmental event investigations to ensure thorough root cause evaluations and verify the effective implementation of corrective/preventative actions.

Training and Orientation:

• Ensure all employees undergo appropriate environmental and sustainability orientation and training programs.

Contractor Compliance:

• Ensure adherence of contractors to relevant K-C standards and OH&S and E&S requirements.

Data Analysis and Reporting:

• Utilize digital systems/platforms to conduct analysis of environmental and sustainability data. Applies procedures and controls to ensure data integrity.
• Provide insights and recommend improvement actions based on data analysis.

Key Decisions/Decision Rights

Decision rights for this role relate primarily to escalation (to Regional/BU and Global OH&S and E&S leadership) of any potential conditions that cannot be appropriately resolved locally and are associated with potential:

• Non-conformance/non-compliance with K-C and regulatory controls and requirements related to OH&S and E&S.
• EHS risks or impacts that may not be managed to acceptable levels.
• Ineffective corrective/preventative actions specified to address OH&S and E&S events/subsequent investigations.
• Ineffective controls to provide quality and complete OH&S and E&S data for compliance/conformance purposes.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, engineering environmental management, sustainability or a related field.
• 7 plus years of experience in environmental management within a manufacturing environment, with a focus on legal compliance, risk management, and adherence to company standards.
• Qualifications required by local regulatory authorities if any.
• 2 plus years of experience in a leadership, management, or supervisory role.
• Strong communications, interpersonal skills with ability to engage at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to influence behaviors/outcomes w/o direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Pursuing or possessing relevant Professional Certifications (e.g., PE, etc.).
• Previous experience with a consumer products organization.