Cell Leader at Henkel Corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah

Job Description:

HENKEL IS FOR THOSE WHO STEP UP. DO YOU?

At Henkel, you can make a difference and craft your career. That’s why you own your projects and take full responsibility from an early stage. Our unique brands in markets around the world open up countless opportunities to follow your convictions and explore new paths. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset that allows you to always think out of the box - take the chance and shape the digital future together with us.

YOUR ROLE

Job Summary:

The Head of Production Cell is responsible for leading all aspects of the production cell to safely produce high quality laundry and home care products.  Leads the development and implementation of short-term tactical action plans and long-term strategies to ensure the cell operates at optimum manufacturing efficiencies and output levels while maintaining the highest safety, quality, and environmental standards with excellent customer service.

 

Responsibilities:

·       Responsible for the measures the cell and all associated KPIs: safety, Quality, Efficiency, Scrap, Sustainability and cost.

·       Drive all operations of the cell ensuring high operating standards are applied at all times

o   Ensure safety and quality mindset is adopted by all employees

o   Ensure competency-based process specific as well as safety and quality training for all cell employees is conducted in a timely, efficient and complete manner in order to meet legal, regulatory and company requirements

o   Work closely with the Technical Reliability and Continuous Improvement personnel to analyze current performance and establish work activities to address losses

o   Execute audits and assessments for implementation status of activities in the cell

o   Review KPIs and daily, weekly and monthly trends

o   Attend daily shift meetings

o   Perform structured MUDA walks with line leaders

o   Review shift leads tasks and assignments

o   Own and execute daily cell meeting and escalate information to Plant Manager for Daily Operational Review

·       Provide direct leadership, direction, development and coaching to all operators of cell in accordance with skill matrices.  Expectation that 70% of time is spent on the manufacturing floor.

o   Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.  These responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, training and developing employees in the cell: planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

o     Actively seek and secure the best talent available creating a pipeline for future roles with both internal and external talent

o     Develop others through coaching, feedback and stretch assignments focusing on succession planning for key positions within the plant as well as the overall Supply Chain organization.

o     Develop and execute training plan for all team members of the cell

·       Support and manage the development of continuous improvement of standard work for all areas of the cell

o   Use all standards and tools deployed through HPS with full ownership in the use of problem solving to address root cause of losses

·       Ensure compliance with Henkel standards for human resources management, safety and loss prevention, cost control, waste reduction, quality, and on-time delivery

·       Ensure compliance with all Federal, State and Local and regulatory requirements

 

·       Maintain compliance at the site through continuous improvement efforts focused appropriately on technology, people, and processes

·       Support Henkel safety, environmental, health and quality initiatives and lead cell commitment at all levels of direct and indirect personnel to follow the Safety, Environmental, Health and Quality Management Systems.

·       Perform other duties as may be required.

 

 

Key competencies and expectations:

·       Strongly developed leadership capabilities living up to our leadership principles and strategic skills

o   Acts as entrepreneur

o   Collaborates strongly with teams

o   Develops people with passion (and builds effective teams)

o   Owns results

·       Strategic skills

o   Judgement

o   Impact

o   Agility

·       Ensure personal accountability of the team

·       Drive concrete results aligned with set targets

·       Drive vision and communicates clear purpose in a motivating way for the cell

·       Optimize work processes to reach benchmark performance

·       Develop continuously the team along the above high standards

YOUR SKILLS

·       Relevant degree in a technical field required – preference is chemical, mechanical or industrial engineering

·       Master’s degree, preferred

·       Proven strategic and tactical leadership experience within a plant /manufacturing, preferably in CPG or related industry with strong work ethic, and positive attitude towards feedback

·       Strong work ethic with the highest level of integrity and is able to demonstrate professional maturity necessary to gain the confidence of senior level leaders; acting as a role model walking-the-talk

·       Demonstrated leadership, technical, functional and people development skills to continuously stretch performance of individuals in direct team

·       Demonstrated skills as a change agent, displaying a high level of energy, being self-driven and constantly questioning the status quo

·       Demonstrated track record of transformation in performance and culture, being able to make calls in difficult situations, not exclusively, but also related to people

·       Strong analytical and communication skills – demonstrated ability to communicate and present to all levels of an organization both verbally and in writing, being able to probe deeply into important details quickly even into complex circumstances and the ability to communicate complex concepts in a compelling, concise and creative way

·       Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement based on relevant experience in this area, i.e. Lean and TPM

·       Demonstrated track record of driving operational performance via strong leadership and change management skills.

·       Demonstrated ability to drive team productivity and maintain high levels of employee engagement and morale

·       Demonstrated ability to identify issues, conduct root cause analysis and take-action to fix issues as well as building quantitative and analytical problem-solving as a key competence into a plant wide capability

·       Demonstrated strong project management skills, including larger capital expenditure projects

·       Availability to travel domestically and internationally

Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression,and other legally protected characteristics.

Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore,Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral. At Henkel’s request only, preferred vendors may be invited to refer talentfor specific open positions. In these cases, a fully-executed agreement with Henkel must be in place and current.

All employees applying for an internal position must have a discussion with his/her manager about their interest in a job posting opportunity. The discussion will not precludethe employee from interviewing if their skills meet the job requirements.

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