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Associate Trainee

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Pune, Maharashtra
Entry level
Pune, Maharashtra
Entry level
The Associate Trainee role involves supporting equipment operation and maintenance, ensuring safety and quality standards, performing machine troubleshooting, and maintaining documentation. It includes tasks related to production, quality assurance, and preventive maintenance within a manufacturing setting.
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Associate Trainee

Job Description

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. 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 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. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

  • Education: DiplomaFresher in Mechanical and Electrical

  • Overall Safety Expectations: Follow all KC Safety rules and Guidelines. Take care of Own safety as well as others safety. Perform periodic safety observations to identify hazards and support in closing those. Report near miss, abnormal condition, and Unsafe act on timely manner. Follow risk assessment, work SOPs, LOTO Management, work permit, Emergency response plan, safety target, PCS, and other safety compliance.

  • Overall Quality Expectations: Follow personal hygiene, workplace hygiene, all GMP (Good manufacturing practices) as per KC guidelines and QMS (Quality management system). Focus on actions keeping customer and consumer expectations at the center. Individual actions should contribute to delivering high quality product to the market. Quality Focused mindset to maintain the highest level of product quality from customer point.

  • Team of Production Associates for Machine: Raw material & Packing Material preparation, loading, Splicing, and unloading activity at shift level.

  • Material threading and routing with defined route and recheck product after material splicing.

  • Machine troubleshooting for Breakdown, Quality Defects and Short stops. Conduct problem solving RCA periodically.

  • Follow Machine and work area cleaning and maintain 5S of shop floor.

  • Document all material traceability report, Production logbook and Packing Logbook and others.

  • Perform real time variable and attribute checks for various product and packaging quality parameters. Record the results of quality inspection in quality system/ Software & other quality documents.

  • Follow “non confirming product” handling quality guidelines to ensure only good products are shipped out. Segregate, recheck the products put on hold for quality reasons.

  • Set and run the machine on center line, good run settings (GRS) and maintain all critical machine settings/equipment’s to deliver safe product to the market.

  • Achieve volume delivery KPI, OEE, Waste, other Performance KPI, Quality & Safety KPI.

  • Perform Cleaning, Lubrication, Inspection and Tightening on machine for maintaining machine condition

  • Follow all machine visual health checkup, Temperature checks, Vibration checks, Greasing and Oiling checks, Abnormal behavior checks and make plan to close abnormalities for continuous good performance.

  • Perform Preventive & Predictive Maintenance periodically to maintain machine in better condition.

  • Perform proper cleaning on holt melt application for increasing life span of part and better operational performance.

  • Follow systematic replacement of spare parts (based on life cycle and condition) for breakdown free operation of Machine.

  • Carryout pack count change, Product size change, Tier Change applying QCO (Quick changeover) Lean principle.

  • Follow Data entry on timely manner for M/C downtime, Stops, Waste, Production and machine performance tracking in Different software and MIS system.

  • Focus on Lean Manufacturing for reduction material and product waste and improving product quality.

  • Apply Kaizen Principle, continuous improvement thinking and deliver benchmark performance in Safety, Quality, Productivity, Cost, and compliance KPIs.

  • Quality Assurance Associate: Follow all Personal Hygiene, Plant hygiene, and pest control for maintaining good GMP. Perform all Quality testing for product verification. Follow Customer complaint procedure, Quality Defects of product & RMPM.

  • Follow Real time inspection, Grade change inspection, Variable and attribute testing, Packing and Artwork checking. Document all Quality testing results in Quality software and such other soft/ hard copy records. Conduct periodic quality audits for critical control points, Quality systems, 5S and different parts of QMS (Quality Management System)

  • Follow Product clearance procedure and Product hold protocol on timely manner. Perform Equipment calibration activity for better accuracy of Equipment.

  • Mechanical Engineering Associate: Follow Store Inventory System for spare tracking, Issue spare to authorize person with defined procedure, maintain Reorder level based on criticality index- Cost, lead time, frequency. Perform overhauling activity of units and modules to make them ready for next use.

  • Perform Stock count activity for stock matching, shift end spare issue and stock accuracy, 5S activity, store audit for findings and improvement. Hotmelt part refurbishment, Cleaning, Testing and make them ready as a spare. Ink jet Coding machine maintenance and repair from breakdown and make them ready for operation. Support in maintenance on machine during PM and changeover activity.

  • Utility Associate: Utility and Electrical operation. Operation and maintenance of Utility and Electrical – Transformer, HT, LT room, DG set, Compressor, Chillers, AHU, WTP, STP. Reports filling and preventive schedule follow and ensuring the equipment high. Support in Panels maintenance, Installation of new projects in the Mill. Ensuring the uninterrupted mill operation Safety firefighting system, pump room, understanding of UPS, VFD, Motors, maintaining Building Management System (BMS) and Energy Management System (EMS), cooling towers operation and maintenance

To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.

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.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects 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 pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

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Primary LocationIndia - Pune

Additional Locations

Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time

Top Skills

Computerized Maintenance Management System
Data Entry Software
Electrical Engineering
Lean Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
Quality Management System

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