Lead Engineer Process

Lead Engineer Process

Job Description

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

Neither are we.

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

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

It starts with YOU.

We are seeking a Lead Process Engineer on the Adult Feminine Care (AFC) Technology Team within Personal Care in KCNA.  The successful candidate for this role will provide Process Engineering leadership to the Personal Care Research and Development (R&D) Team within the AFC Technology Team with a primary focus on Process Engineering Lead roles for product development and innovation projects on the Development and Commercialization (D&C) Team. 

The individual in this role will lead/support end to end process development ranging from early process definition up to project commercialization and design optimization.  Activities are focused across our North American Personal Care and Global facilities, and with External Contract Manufacturer (ECM) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) as required. 

The incumbent reports to an R&E Senior Manager and receives direction in the form of specific and broadly defined project objectives.

The incumbent will provide process engineering leadership and support in the form of developing and executing plans for the optimization of, and improvement to, the manufacturing and converting processes for the existing product forms, as well as develop, direct, and execute evolutionary changes to the process as dictated by changing business conditions.

In this role, you will:


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

Involvement spans from project inception through commercialization.


* Provide creativity in the design, development, and optimization of Personal Care converting and manufacturing equipment and processes to meet business unit objectives.


* Work closely with the product, material, and engineering leads to provide functional guidance in the design, development and/or optimization of converting equipment/processes to meet unit objectives.


* Develop knowledge and skills to be recognized as an effective implementer of engineering principles, scientific analysis, and project management.


* Recognized as a subject matter expert in advanced process development, process learning plan development and execution, trial planning and execution, problem solving and documentation.


* Champion our D&C process to enable technical readiness for Development and Commercialization.


* Acquire and transfer technical knowledge in t...