Sr. Engineer - Process

Sr.

Engineer - Process

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. 

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision.

You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

We are seeking a Senior 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, including the execution of POWER programs across AFC.  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 engineeri...