Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical Engineer

Job Description

Your Role

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® Andrex®.

At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

You were made to create Better Care for a better World: as Preventing and fixing problems on technologically advanced, high-speed machines that produce top-notch products for ¼ of the world’s population is no easy feat, but it’s worth it when you’re recognized often by your manager, supported by your team, and see the products you produce being used by your own family at the end of the day.

As part of the highly skilled Asset Support Team, the Mechanical Engineer will work under the direction of the Converting Asset Leader to provide both proactive and reactive maintenance support within their area discipline.

This will be a hands-on role in both planned maintenance and troubleshooting scenarios.

In this role, you will be installing, maintaining and repairing mechanical components of machines and assets in our mill facility, in accordance with our reliability strategy and site safety standards.

About You

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

As a Mechanical Engineer, you are able to demonstrate your previous mechanical engineering experience, you work best under pressure and you deliver high value to your team by owning issues through resolution, being flexible (in both mindset and practice) and working collaboratively with them toward team goals.

You also…


* A strong awareness for safety.


* Demonstrate and drive the 3 Safety Obligations


* Take decisive action when in “red condition” versus standard


* Conduct all necessary Process health checks and essential care rounds


* Identifies appropriate solutions to failure.

Applies analysis techniques such as Asset Criticality, FMEAC/FMEA, RCM, Fall, Event and Weibull analysis.

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 Andrex® and Klenexx® that are essential to millions of lives around the world, and right here in Barrow.

It starts with YOU.

Required Qualifications


* Formal Engineering qualifications, typically to degree level (minimum HNC).


* Achieved an HNC/HND (or equivalent) in an Engineering discipline.

In addition, you will have a recognised apprenticeship in a relevant field ideally NVQ level 3 with hands on experience in Manufacturing/FMCG environments.

Preferred qualifications


* Transfer in-depth technical knowledge of mechanical equi...