Lead Process Engineer

Lead Process Engineer

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.

The Lead Process Engineer role will provide leadership and creativity in the design, development, optimization, problem solving, and operation of assigned assets & supporting processes in a manner that meets safety and operational performance expectations.

This position will focus on driving continuous improvement and leading troubleshooting and problem solving to drive process improvements for the assets they support.  

This role sets objectives that directly influence plant and sector results and Kimberly-Clark’s customer service delivery.

Reporting to an Asset Leader, the incumbent is responsible for engineering, maintenance, and reliability for assigned assets and supports other site process work as needed.

In this role, you will:


* Develop and deliver equipment and processes that meet safety requirements, policies, and guidelines.

Provides for the safety and well-being of operators, maintenance, and other personnel.


* Manage medium-to-large initiatives to deliver improvements to asset performance or mill systems and lead major initiatives for breakthrough improvements per asset objectives


* Identify cost savings opportunities and manage expense spending to asset budget


* Develop knowledge and skills in leadership of the application of engineering principles, scientific analysis, LEAN principles, and project management.


* Seeks, recognizes, defines, and solves complex process issues to root cause to achieve objectives.


* Participate in the development of others within the area of the incumbent's expertise, including the creation of knowledge transfer documentation materials.


* Support maintenance personnel when troubleshooting complex issues.


* Identify and document issues and opportunities with existing equipment.


* Support and participate in training plans for process resources at the site


* Lead a safety work team


* Partner with maintenance on reliability projects


* Assist team with trial planning and trial preparation


* Support assets using engineering knowledge, including being on-call and potential shift coverage


* Provide input to plant expense and capital plans.


* Provide input to capital teams so proposed changes are in-line with the 5-year vision.

Involved with early design, technology, equipment selection, sizing, location, etc.

Oversight and support during installation and commissioning.


* Liaison with utilities/facilities teams so imp...