Associate Trainee

About the Role

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, you have the opportunity to operate a machine that produces top-notch products.

About You

In this manufacturing role, you will 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.

Key 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.
• 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.
• 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; uphold shop-floor 5S.
• Documentation, Traceability & Quality Checks:
• Maintain material traceability reports and production and packing logbooks.
• Perform real-time variable and attribute quality checks for products and packaging.
• Record all inspection results accurately in quality systems/software and relevant quality documents.
• Production, Machine Operation & Performance:
• Ensure only confirmed good products are shipped by following non-conforming 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.
• Ensure accurate data entry for downtime, waste, production, and machine performance in MIS systems.
• Maintenance, Reliability & Lean Practices:
• Perform CLIT (Cleaning, Lubrication, Inspection, and Tightening).
• Conduct visual health checks including temperature, vibration, greasing, oiling, and abnormality closure.
• Execute preventive and predictive maintenance, systematic spare replacement, hot-melt cleaning.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provide cross-functional support to maintain high equipment availability and plant performance.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• ITI in Mechanical / EE / EEE / E&C.
• Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Familiarity with lean manufacturing principles and Kaizen.
• Knowledge of GMP standards and QMS standards.
• Experience with quality assurance procedures and documentation.
• Understanding of utility and electrical systems (Transformers, HT/LT, DG sets, compressors, chillers, AHU, WTP, STP, cooling towers, firefighting systems, pump rooms, UPS, VFDs, motors).
• Proficiency in 5S methodology.
• Familiarity with MIS systems, BMS, and EMS.

Qualifications

• Production, Machine Operation & Performance:
• Ensure only confirmed good products are shipped.
• Set and run machines at centerline and GRS.
• Achieve Volume, OEE, Waste, Performance, Quality, and Safety KPIs.
• Perform pack count/product size/tier changes using QCO lean principles.
• Maintenance, Reliability & Lean Practices:
• Perform CLIT.
• Execute preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Focus on lean manufacturing, Kaizen, and continuous improvement.
• Quality Assurance & GMP Compliance:
• Follow personal and plant hygiene, pest control, GMP standards.
• Conduct all quality testing for product verification.
• 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).
• Mechanical Engineering & Spares Management:
• Manage store inventory systems for spare tracking.
• Maintain reorder levels.
• Perform overhauling of units/modules.
• Utility, Electrical & Infrastructure Operations:
• Operate and maintain utilities and electrical systems.
• Ensure uninterrupted mill operations.
• Safety, Compliance & Operational Excellence:
• Ensure equipment reliability, operational safety, energy efficiency, and compliance.