Senior Engineer - Projects

Senior Engineer - Projects

Job Description

You are not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we are 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 will bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you will help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

As a Senior Engineer – Projects, you’re responsible for providing R&D Engineering Leadership for the Kimberly-Clark North America (KCNA) Personal Care businesses to support new product innovation and renovation, expansion, and optimization.

Responsibilities include leading Engineering Feasibility Studies, coordinating work across a broad range of team members, developing and executing a capital equipment learning plan, and managing success criteria and risk mitigation for assigned projects to ensure a successful transition to the capital execution team.  This role will lead multiple engineering discipline leads assigned to the project as well as work with other project leaders from the Research and Supply Chain teams.

Other cross-functional partners will include Plant, Finance, and other R&D teams, as well as working closely with Technical Service Providers (TSPs) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

In this role you will: 


* Lead engineering development through FOAK for projects that vary in scope and cost from less than $1MM to over $10MM in support of new product innovation, renovation, expansion, and optimization


* Provide engineering leadership to a team of internal and external engineers to develop learning plans that establish equipment designs to deliver against process and product success criteria


* Know and follow Project Management Practices and manage all projects to meet or exceed project success criteria and timing


* Develop and apply LEAN capability to support continuous improvement strategies and activities.

Seek, recognize, define and solve problems to achieve business unit objectives.

Identify complex technical issues to determine root cause


* Carry out all job responsibilities in a safe manner, developing equipment and processes that meet safety codes, policies and guidelines and for the safety and well-being of operators, maintenance and other personnel


* Strengthen ways of working and standards within the team by being a coach and mentor for new team members and less experienced engineers


* Serve as Subject Matter Expert in Engineering Feasibility Studies and Equipment Learning Plan Development

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.

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