Autonomous Maintenance Leader (Engineering)

Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Leader

Who We Are

Essity is a global leader in health and hygiene headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and North American headquarters in Philadelphia, PA. We are a multi-billion-dollar company that is committed to breaking barriers to well-being through innovation in Professional Hygiene, Consumer Goods, and Health & Medical Solutions.

Working at Essity is not just a career, it's where you'll play your part in a better future, making the world a healthier, more hygienic, and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being. At Essity, there's shared belonging and individual growth. Our culture grows with you.

At Essity: This Is What We Do

 

About the Role

Essity Professional Hygiene North America is looking for an experienced Autonomous Maintenance professional. This position will be located in our manufacturing facility in Neenah, WI.

The AM Leader will support the Site to deliver the expected results, through the implementation of manufacturing performance enablers and building process capabilities defined by TPM, according to the business and Site's needs.

The AM Leader will be a member of the Site Leadership Team to make sure the Site has a structured and organized approach to implement AM enablers:

• Participate in the Senior Leadership Team to establish the roadmap for building AM enablers that support the site-specific priorities in line with CBNs.
• Owner of Manufacturing Excellence and follow up on the deployment of the tools and concepts.
• Challenge to standardize on best practices and ensure consistency in approach.
• Ensure benefits of the Enablers prioritized and implemented.

 

We're looking for people who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We're always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we'd love to talk.

 

What You Will Do

Manufacturing Excellence and Process Improvement:

• Accountable for implementation of the Operator Centric way of working.
• Interact with other sites and global teams regarding Manufacturing Excellence, for alignment and implementation of enablers that contribute to the CBN, as well as the best practices sharing to ensure that standards are effective and are delivering the expected results.
• Facilitate and promote networking inside and outside the Site.
• Interact, develop and coach Process and Enabler owners to ensure performance improvements are achieved from the implementation and execution.
• Focus and drive the Manufacturing Excellence and Continuous Improvement initiatives (i.e. Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Defect Handling, CIL, CL, Continuous Improvement (CI)) to site's objectives and goals.
• Site Leader for the problem-solving Cycle Methodologies and Equipment Ownership.
• Proactively promote and give follow up to the consistent implementation of manufacturing excellence initiatives, according to the defined master plan, and business and Site's priorities.
• Ensure Site's systems are in place, standardized and are aligned with Manufacturing Excellence principles.
• Lead and drive the Health Check system and culture in the site
• Ensure overall AM system is healthy from deployment through execution, and beyond is alive and held to standard and continuously improves through a governance structure.
• Provide transparency to the management team about progress on both enablers and capability development.
• Review with management team the efficiency of the system and assess if it is delivering the expected improvement in the performance results, identify actions to realign if necessary.
• Give feedback to Ops Managers about opportunity areas in leadership and systems for continuous improvement.
• Coordinate awards and recognitions regarding Manufacturing Excellence.

 

Safety, Health, & Environment:

• Is a role model on Safety: knows and applies safety policy and procedures.
• Applies the behaviors and standards on Safety defined by ESSITY.
• Understands, applies and support the implementation of Safety enablers in collaboration with Safety Manager.
• Detect and report unsafe behaviors and conditions.

 

Process Capabilities Development:

• In collaboration with Process/Enabler owners, Training coordinator and HR manager identify strategy and develop plan necessary to the implementation of HMEX program and enablers.
• Drive and build development, train and coach leaders within operations in the AM tools and assess these via health checks.
• Support and advise Management team and line management on how to improve the structure of capability development, through sharing, learning and reapplication of best practices.
• Drive site self-sufficiency in intermediate qualifications in DDS and key AM enablers.
• Owner of the Site Skill Matrix.
• Owner of the automation of tools needed to successful execute TPM Methodologies
• The Site Training Coordinator will report into this position.
• Site Leader for the implementation of PLAIN.
• Promote and support the implementation of RUBIK and eLearning.

 

Operation:

• Transfer knowledge and capabilities to HMEx pillars in their activities' planning and execution.
• Drive rigor and discipline related to standards.
• Ensure capability development roadmaps and skills matrices for new operators, young engineers, trainees and continuous learning paths for all other personnel in operations are in place, used and activities documented.
• Support Product Supply and HMex initiatives by providing learning opportunities for people and participate actively in initiatives (PE School, EDN). Provides support and guidance to Plant Leadership in Essity agreed topics and trainings to the target audience.
• Communicate updates in central material to the organisation and update links in skills matrices.
• Support GHS HMEX group in developing structures and systems to be applied across all sites.
• Actively network within Global Supply Chain and supports application of agreed standards.
• Support shared training sessions between the sites. Ex. Essity PCE school content to all factories.

 

Morale:

• Introduce best practices in Change management and can engage people in the change process.
• Contribute to generate an environment oriented to trust, open communication and teamwork.
• Able to overcome barriers and support people to deliver expected targets.
• Respect, apply and promote the Code of Conduct.
• Apply and promote Essity's Beliefs and Behaviors.

 

Who You Are

Education:

• Bachelor degree in Engineering (mechanical, electrical, mechatronics, chemical, industrial, etc.) or related area.

Experience:

• 5 + years of experience in manufacturing environment with prior experience in a leadership role preferred;
• Strong knowledge of business and technical tools and practices related to Manufacturing Excellence, Lean Manufacturing, TPM or other continuous improvement tools;
• Practical experience and proven results driving continuous improvement principles and achieving targets

 

​What We Can Offer You

At Essity, we believe everyone's learning and professional development is unique and want to empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

Compensation and Benefits:

Expected Compensation:

Competitive annual salary + annual incentive bonus + benefits.

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors such as knowledge, skills, and experience.

Along with competitive pay you will be eligible for the following benefits:

• United Healthcare PPO / EyeMed Vision Insurance / Delta Dental Insurance
• Wellness program provided through Rally
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match and annual employer base contribution
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• PTO offering with Paid Holidays
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance
• Employee discounts program
• Scholarship program for children of Essity employees. 

About Our DEI Culture

Guided by our Beliefs & Behavior, our culture is the foundation that connects our history with our future. At Essity, care, collaboration and inclusion are more than buzzwords, they are practiced on an everyday basis. And with a purpose of breaking barriers to wellbeing, promoting gender equality and enable customers and consumers to lead a fuller life at all stages of life, DEI is in our core.

As we work in diverse teams across geographies, cultures and professional areas, inclusive leadership is something we expect from ourselves and each other. In our leadership platform, we express this as leveraging the power of differences. From experience we know that diverse and inclusive teams are key to innovate and profitably grow our business while simultaneously address our ambitious climate targets.

Collaborative and Inclusive Culture | Empowering & Engaged Leaders | Working with Powerful Purpose & Sustainable Impact | Learning and Growing in your Career | Supporting Well-being & Sustainable Working Life | Life-changing Innovations | Competitive Total Rewards

Additional Information

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified candidates and employees pursuant to applicable law. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

If you require reasonable accommodation as part of the application process please contact EssityHRNorthAmerica@essity.com

Together, we are improving lives, every day

Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.

Job Requisition ID:

Essity250191