Categories: Manufacturing, Engineering, Leadership

Reliability Leader

Job Description

Reliability Engineer

Barrow Plant, Barrow-In-Furness

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 will be part of Kimberly Clark's International Family Care and Professional (IFP) business—an organization rooted in purpose and innovation that has built a legacy with global impact. As Kimberly-Clark forms a strategic partnership with Suzano to create a world-class international tissue and professional products company, this role is proposed to transfer to the new venture once the transaction closes, anticipated in mid-2026, subject to consultation and other applicable legal requirements. This is a rare opportunity to help shape a new global leader backed by two industry powerhouses. You’ll be part of a high-potential business that combines Kimberly-Clark’s iconic brands and commercial excellence with Suzano’s industrial and sustainability leadership.​

In your role as Reliability Leader, you will provide strategic reliability leadership borne through an excellent technical understanding and extensive proven background in engineering maintenance.  You will lead the plant level reliability strategy development and plan execution including leadership of the transformation plan and its associated activities.

You will be responsible for establishing leadership standards for the personnel associated with maintenance and reliability throughout the site, setting the strategy, developing team and leader capabilities, managing the reliability glidepath, and delivering continuous improvement in asset reliability.  This position also ensures maintenance and reliability teams are leveraging the OPEX (operational excellence) continuous improvement process to drive improvements. 

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Manage, lead, resource and develop, the Reliability Team to support a breakthrough step change in asset performance with a principal focus on maintenance planning, scheduling, and pre-shut planning and effective parts staging, right first time, resulting in an improvement to safety, quality, OEE, and maintenance cost reduction to best support the sites assets.

• Manage, lead, resource and develop the Site Shift Technical Team (supported through the Shift Technical Team Leader) to effectively allocate and schedule technical resource to planned and responsive activities to support the sites assets.

• Manage, lead, resource and develop the Engineering Stores team (supported through the Purchasing/Engineering Stores Team Leader) to continuously drive improvements in safety, quality, inventory level, delivery and cost reduction to best support the sites assets.

• Manage and lead the on-site outsourced lubrication team and its plant maintenance program to best support the sites assets.

• Work in partnership with the Mill leadership to achieve facility objectives. Provide governance to all established reliability processes, ensure continual improvement, and build/establish new processes defined through RCPS.

• Ensure we are following best practice standards for all reliability systems and fully utilising end to end the Reliability Playbook and Maintenance Management System (SAP PM) for Work Identification and Control.

• Manage all aspects associated with CbM tools and techniques across the facility including thermography, vibration analysis, oil condition sampling, collating the data, making effective decisions and taking action.

• Manage Vendor support contracts and maintenance budgets associated with CbM based preventive and predictive reliability services.  Lead with innovation to determine and track investments in reliability technology, tools, systems and processes to drive continuous improvement and right first time.  Provide justification, develop and lead Reliability based Capital funded projects.

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 fuelled 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 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.  

You will focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the centre. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:  

• Minimum degree level, ideally BEng Engineering or equivalent tertiary education or professional certifications.

• Significant engineering experience within a manufacturing, packaging or FMCG environment.

• In depth knowledge of SAP PM (computerised maintenance systems) and processes.

• Proven knowledge and experience of initiating and implementing Reliability focused continuous improvements programs.

Total Benefits 

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.  

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch pounds when caring for yourself or dependents. 

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events. 

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance.  Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme. 

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 checks.

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Primary Location

Barrow Mill

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time