Senior Electrical Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you.

You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story.

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

It starts with YOU. 

About You

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

Job responsibilities include:



* Lead the design, delivery, installation, and start-up of safe, compliant equipment and processes that protect operators, maintenance, and plant personnel.


* Manage medium-to-large asset improvement initiatives end-to-end, delivering performance, reliability, and system improvements, including breakthrough solutions.


* Apply engineering principles, scientific analysis, LEAN methodologies, and project management to solve complex technical issues to root cause.


* Partner with maintenance and reliability teams to troubleshoot complex issues, support assets (including on-call/shift coverage), and execute electrical-focused reliability projects.


* Provide technical leadership through coaching, development of others, knowledge transfer documentation, and site-wide electrical training plans.


* Lead safety work teams and ensure alignment with the plant’s High Performance Work System.


* Support strategic planning through input to capital and expense plans, obsolescence strategies, 5-year vision alignment, and early-stage design, technology, and equipment decisions.


* Collaborate with utilities, facilities, and cross-functional teams to assess operational impacts, support trials, and ensure successful commissioning and sustained performance.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Required Qualifications


* A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline


* 7+ years of industrial experience in a variety of electrically technical or operational assignments.


* A demonstrated ability to perform in cross-functional teams to achieve objectives within required timeframes.


* Experience with PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers); variable speed motor drives; HMI (Human Machine Interfaces) distributed control systems; instrumentation; and power distribution.

Preferred Qualifications


* Demonstrated ability of writing and presenting updates to leadership.


* Multiple years of experience in a variety of plant manufacturing and s...