Your Role at KIK

Responsible for providing management direction and support to hourly employees to ensure that the day-to-day operations of the Lake Charles Plant is consistent with the company goals for safety, health, environment, budgeted, and production as well as product quality and cost effectiveness.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Evaluate individual team member’s performances and develop their skills to align with personal/company goals through coaching.
• You will be working with the Production Manager & Site Engineer to implement improvement strategies that will help the site perform more effectively.
• Supervisor to establish line performance standards and goals on his/her shift, monitor, make necessary corrective actions, and report outcomes.
• Actively lead the hiring, training, retraining, development, and motivation of production team on his/her shift with a minimum degree of guidance from the Production Manager. 
• Directs the work team and supervises the shift’s production to meet published schedules.
• Maintains a consistently safe work environment and personally demonstrates his/her commitment to safety and compliance.
• Achieves consistent quality and high efficiency levels by optimum utilization of equipment and manpower.
• Ensures efficient coordination and processing of a high volume of work orders and develops and maintains a very close and effective working relationship with all other departments.

 The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum of 3 years of supervisory experience in a chemical manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in manufacturing field
• Strong knowledge of lean, six sigma tools and problem-solving methodology
• Strong belief in Teamwork and Cross Training
• Drive to achieve key performance metrics and for continuous improvement
• Encourages excellence in others through being a positive influence in the development of team.
• Customer focus, meets expectations, internally and externally, forms partnerships
• Strong communication skills
• Demonstrates the ability to recruit and develop staff
• Possess conflict management skills and a good understanding of self-directed work teams
• Able to effectively drive change management
• Continuous improvement mindset

What You Will Get

KIK offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including health, wellness, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. You can plan for your future with KIK's retirement savings options including employer match. KIK also recognizes the importance of continuing education and offers Education Assistance to our employees to encourage continued personal development and growth. 

About KIK

We create the products and brands that people trust to clean, sanitize, and protect their homes, pools, and cars. We are one of North America’s largest independent consumer product manufacturers with 20 North American manufacturing facilities. We also operate globally in Europe, Asia, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. We are known by our portfolio of over 40 brands including Spic and Span® and Comet® cleaning products, Clorox® Pool&Spa™ (under license), BioGuard®, and Natural Chemistry® pool chemicals, and Prestone® and Holts® automotive performance chemicals. We are also the #1 producer in North America for store-brand (“private label”) bleach and a leading private label provider of laundry detergent and additives, dishwashing products, general purpose cleaning and other home care products.

Our global team of over 2,500 employees drive our capabilities in product development, product formulation, strategic sourcing, manufacturing, packaging design, brand marketing, project management, quality assurance, compliance, distribution, and logistics.

Our organization is constantly evolving and is driven by a set of “One KIK” values – a dedication to following through on commitments in a customer-focused, profit-motivated way; while never compromising on safety, ethics, or integrity.

KIK is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. KIK does not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, status in uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, genetic information or any other status protected by law. 

KIK is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the job, please contact Human Resources immediately.