Senior Process Engineer

Senior Process Engineer

Job Description

You were made to do this work: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision.

You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

In this role, you will:


* Provide process leadership focused on the development and commercialization of innovation across Family Care platforms.  This may include project leadership as business needs dictate.


* Maintain technical and scientific expertise in an area of technology and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark.


* Effectively collaborate with a cross-functional team that includes R&D, pilot plant, mill and multi-functional team members, and external vendor. 


* Communicate appropriately and effectively with all customers, internal and external.


* Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve business results.


* Drive a culture of protected and documented innovation to protect and defend K-C proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.

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.

In one of our R&D 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:


* Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university. 


* 7+ years of relevant engineering experience in a variety of staff of mill assignments.


* Proven ability to collaborate across functions/departments to drive balanced business decisions.


* Track record of research and development leadership and success, as well as strong fundamental understanding of Family Care tissue technologies, processes and products.


* Demonstrated strengths in some of these areas: prototype development, design of experiments, data & statistical analysis, material science, and project management.


* Demonstrated ability to provide work direction to team members not in a direct reporting relationship.


* 20% travel

Preferred Qualifications:


* 10+ years of relevant experience.


* Paper manufacturing and converting experience, ideally subject matter expertise in multiple unit tissue operations.

Key technology areas include tissue technology (forming, drying and winding) and...