Shift Mechanical Technician-1

Shift Mechanical Technician, Epping Mill, Cape Town

Job posting closing date: 6th October, end of day

As a person, you’re a learner, a natural leader, and someone who is always looking for ways to make things better while bringing others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest standards of integrity, safety, and quality, ensuring that your responsibilities deliver sustainable long-term results. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

In this role, you will:

Provide technical support on shift, development and control to the engineering team, so that the assets maintains the highest levels of productivity and profitability while maintaining high safety and quality standards. Provide technical support to the Operations Teams on shift to ensure problem solving through a continuous improvement mindset and driving the highest standards in Manufacturing Excellent programs that supports effective rebuilds. Provide data analysis for a key focus area through daily tier meeting reporting

• Be a leader and role model for the Engineering teams interacting with support departments.
• Liase with Asset team, Operations teams, Engineering team and Quality team.
• Capable of leading self and driving performance management in maintenance execution.
• On the job training and sharing of knowledge
• Effective management, execution and delivery of grade change activity across the assets.
• Lead / Support Innovation and renovation projects for successful launch into the Mill and market.
• Requires understanding of Environmental, legal and K-C statutory requirements.
• Continually comply with all K-C regulatory & control requirements, internal controls, while at all-times driving accountability and compliance on the assets and capital spares.
• Ensure assets/equipment are maintained in a “Safe to operate” condition at all times while promoting all aspects of safe working practices to meet all safety and housekeeping objectives of the plant.
• Contribute to the development of sound safety programmes and maintenance of good working conditions, adherence to organization and Legal Safety rules and regulations.
• Participate in the role out and development of improvement projects in specific focus areas.
• Lead improvement on various assets in the Mill that will improve “stops, quality, safety, ROO and waste.
• Participate in review meetings that will drive sustainability and encourage dialogue that will drive and sustain our Lean Culture.
• Apply PDCA Methodology and demonstrate a continuous improvement mindset.
• Develop WI, Standards and OPL’s that will build capability.
• Provide engineering knowledge and support for the solution of Mill daily operating problems
• Own the effective rebuilding process and uses digital tools to track and optimise performance of units or areas
• Lead and own P2030 best practice implementation in line with the reliability strategy
• Provide input, technical development and technical control including autonomous care protocols to the assets so that the equipment operates at the highest productivity and profitability levels.
• Assisting with the planning and set up of the equipment in line with best in calls uptime and efficiency.
• Audit and make recommendations for the solution of problems relating to equipment and or assets that supports cost optimization and delivery.
• Support analysis of maintenance cost and spend to delivery and improve $/SU
• Continuously seek innovative solutions and lead by example as well as benchmarking of solutions to improve cost and MTBF (mean time between failures)
• Formulate, develop and drive areas of improvement within specific process areas supported by digital analysis and dashboards to deliver improved costs and quality.
• Review of statistical data to support quality and OEE
• Accountable for Data integrity for the specific process area.
• Analyse and interpret data to enable operating teams to achieve performance targets in accordance with P2030 and Manufacturing best practice.
• Effectively managing Centreline, Specification reviews and GRS of specialized area
• Ability to share key insights to market complaints originating from specialized area.
• Understanding of PASS/ quality charts results and impact on specialized area.
• Accurate setup of area during Grade Change to meet quality standards

About Us

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.

In this manufacturing role, 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:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

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• ESSENTIAL:

• Trade-tested Fitter qualification or National Technical Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.

• Minimum 3 – 5 years’ experience working with high-speed production equipment.

• Experience in FMCG, particularly nonwoven production or converting environments.

• Ability to read, use and understand mechanical drawings.

• Practical, hands-on technician experience in an engineering or maintenance environment.

• Strong technical fault-finding and problem-solving capability.

• Ability to work independently and remain self-sufficient during shifts when day-team support is limited.

• ADVANTAGEOUS:

• Working knowledge of electrical and pneumatic systems and Adhesive systems (advantage).

• Proven track record in delivering results.

• Project management skills.

• Lean manufacturing and process improvement experience.

• Working with diverse problems requiring in-depth knowledge of the operations environment.

• Experience with equipment rebuild and setup

• CI mindset and

• LSS – Yellow Belt Certified / Green Belt

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.

South Africa:

As part of your Total Rewards package, you will be entitled to a comprehensive set of benefits. Some of these are listed below:

• Reward and recognition – to attract and retain the best talent we offer competitive pay. We reward excellence and high performance through annual performance related increases and employee recognition awards.
• Great support for good health – we value good health, and to support you, you will have various options for medical insurance with a 50% employer contribution and Gap cover.
• Planning for the future – Being a member of the Provident fund will provide you with savings to provide an income after retirement.
• Protection for you and your family in case of illness or injury – for peace of mind you will have Life cover, disability insurance and Funeral benefit.
• Learning and growth – our employees value the opportunities for professional and personal growth that we offer. A wide range of training is available with Study bursaries for external cours