E&S Coordinator

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®.  At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

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.

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

As an integral part of the Environment & Sustainability (E&S) team, the Site Environmental & Sustainability Coordinator assumes a leadership position, spearheading Kimberly-Clark’s (K-C) commitment to Better Care for a Better World. This role provides strategic leadership specifically for the environmental aspects of E&S programs and systems within a low E&S level complexity site. The position ensures that the facility is strategically aligned and operating in conformance with K-C E&S Standards and in compliance with local legal requirements.  

 

Through influence without authority and/or direct reporting relationships, the position works collaboratively to identify and direct appropriate process and systems that elevate site program maturity, effectively manage risks and deliver continuous improvement in environmental and sustainability results. Site E&S Coordinators may lead a team of professionals to assist in delivering on accountabilities and reports to the Segment E&S Operations Leader. 

 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Legal Compliance Management: Interpret, understand, and monitor/manage the implications of relevant legal requirements applicable to site activities and operations. 

• Risk Management: Able to identify and understand environmental hazards, assess associated risks, and develop similar skills and capabilities in others. 

• Subject Matter Expertise: Demonstrate competence in relevant environmental and sustainability topics, especially about topics addressed by K-C E&S Perf. Stds. and associated operation-specific risks. 

• Leadership Incident Support: Lead, conduct and guide environmental incident investigations and conduct causal analyses while building similar skills and capabilities in others. 

• Training Delivery: Deliver basic environmental and sustainability training common in less complex operations. 

• Program Assessments: Execute routine checks and self-assessments of the site's environmental and sustainability program maturity and performance for operations of low complexity. 

• Leadership Skills: Demonstrate relevant leadership skills related to accountability, positive role modeling, and commitment as per the Leadership Curriculum. 

• Technological Acumen: Leverage data and digital systems/platforms to improve decision-making and problem-solving. Address technological advancements, such as automation, as relevant to tasks/duties of the role. 

• Project Management and Change Support: Exhibit capabilities in project management and managing change effectively. 

• Lean Mindset and Collaboration: Role model a lean mindset, emphasizing continuous improvement and value to the customer. Embrace a "go to where the work happens" attitude. Demonstrate strong collaboration and relationship-building skills. 

• Manufacturing Planning/Execution/Capital Allocation: Possess familiarity with manufacturing planning, execution, and capital allocation processes. 

 

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. It starts with YOU.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, environmental management, sustainability or a related field.  

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in environmental management, involving legal compliance, hazards/risks, adherence to company standards and deployment of environmental management systems. 

• Qualifications required by local regulatory authorities if any. 

• Strong communications, interpersonal skills with ability to effectively engage at all levels of the organization. 

• Ability to influence behaviors/outcomes w/o direct authority. 

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

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, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses 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 local policies.

Primary Location

Cape Town Epping Plant

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time