Associate Trainee

Associate Trainee

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies , Kleenex , Cottonelle , Scott , Kotex , Poise , Depend , and Kimberly-Clark Professional [local brands can be input here, be sure to use register sign ]. At Kimberly-Clark, it s all here for you-innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: this is your opportunity to operate a machine that produces top-notch products for of the world s population. Get recognized often by your manager, supported by your team, and see the products you produce being used by your own family at the end of the day. It starts with YOU.

About You

In one of our manufacturing roles, you ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

You will be maintaining equipment associated with the production, packaging and distribution of Kimberly-Clark products through preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance work. This role is part of Kimberly-Clark s investment in creating new jobs and expanding its capabilities to produce premium products that are essential to millions of lives around the world, and right here in India. It starts with YOU.

Responsibilities

• Education & Safety Expectations: ITI in Mechanical / EE / EEE / E&C. Follow all KC safety rules and guidelines, ensure own and others safety, conduct periodic safety observations, report near misses, unsafe acts and abnormal conditions promptly, and comply with risk assessments, SOPs, LOTO, work permits, emergency response plans, safety targets, PCS, and all safety compliances.
• Quality, GMP & Customer Focus: Adhere to personal hygiene, workplace hygiene, GMP, KC quality guidelines, and QMS standards. Maintain a quality-focused mindset, ensure actions align with customer and consumer expectations, and contribute individually to delivering high-quality products to the market.
• Production & Machine Operations: Handle raw material and packing material preparation, loading, splicing, unloading, material threading and routing as per defined procedures, recheck products after splicing, troubleshoot machine breakdowns, quality defects, and short stops, conduct RCA, maintain machine and work-area cleaning, and uphold shop-floor 5S.
• Documentation, Traceability & Quality Checks: Maintain material traceability reports, production and packing logbooks. Perform real-time variable and attribute quality checks for products and packaging and record all inspection results accurately in quality systems/software and relevant quality documents.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Production, Machine Operation & Performance: Ensure only confirmed good products are shipped by following non-confirming product quality guidelines, segregation, recheck, and proper hold handling. Set and run machines at centerline and GRS, maintain critical settings, achieve Volume, OEE, Waste, Performance, Quality, and Safety KPIs, perform pack count/product size/tier changes using QCO lean principles, and ensure accurate data entry for downtime, waste, production, and machine performance in MIS systems.
• Maintenance, Reliability & Lean Practices: Perform Cleaning, Lubrication, Inspection, and Tightening (CLIT); visual health checks including temperature, vibration, greasing, oiling, and abnormality closure. Execute preventive and predictive maintenance, systematic spare replacement, hot-melt cleaning, and focus on lean manufacturing, Kaizen, and continuous improvement to deliver benchmark Safety, Quality, Productivity, Cost, and compliance KPIs.
• Quality Assurance & GMP Compliance: Follow personal and plant hygiene, pest control, GMP standards, conduct all quality testing for product verification, address customer complaints, quality defects, and RMPM. Perform real-time inspections, grade change inspections, variable and attribute testing, packing and artwork checks, document results in quality systems, conduct audits (CCPs, QMS, 5S), manage product clearance, hold protocols, and equipment calibration.
• Mechanical Engineering & Spares Management: Manage store inventory systems for spare tracking, issue spares per authorization, maintain reorder levels based on criticality, lead time, and frequency. Perform overhauling of units/modules, stock counts, 5S activities, store audits, hot-melt part refurbishment, inkjet coding machine maintenance, and support PM and changeover activities.
• Utility, Electrical & Infrastructure Operations: Operate and maintain utilities and electrical systems including Transformers, HT/LT, DG sets, compressors, chillers, AHU, WTP, STP, cooling towers, firefighting systems, pump rooms, UPS, VFDs, motors, and ensure uninterrupted mill operations. Maintain reports, preventive schedules, panels, new project installations, BMS, and EMS.
• Safety, Compliance & Operational Excellence: Ensure equipment reliability, operational safety, energy efficiency, and compliance through disciplined execution of procedures, preventive schedules, audits, continuous monitoring, and cross-functional support to maintain high equipment availability and plant performance.

In-Country Relocation: Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role, including assistance to obtain proper work authorization. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark s sole discretion.

Primary Location: Sricity Mill

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