Lead Mechanical Engineer

About the role

As a person dedicated to learning, leading, and making things better, you'll play a crucial role in delivering better care for billions of people worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Champion a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with EHS standards, regulations, and plant guidelines.
• Lead capital and engineering projects up to $5M from concept through commercialization.
• Design, develop, and optimize tissue converting equipment and manufacturing processes.
• Apply engineering and project management principles to improve operational performance and reliability.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues using root-cause analysis.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, reliability teams, and external vendors to achieve business objectives.
• Develop innovative solutions that enhance safety, quality, productivity, and process efficiency.
• Provide occasional on-call technical support as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology from an accredited institution required.
• 3+ years of technical and/or operational experience; recent graduates with relevant internship, co-op, or industry experience will also be considered.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing systems, machine safety, mechanical design, automation controls, project execution, asset management, technical documentation, and Lean manufacturing principles.
• A demonstrated ability to work independently or to lead a team to complete projects within required timeframes.
• A collaborative work style with the ability to improve teamwork and drive results.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge and background in Manufacturing/production including a demonstrated ability to translate that knowledge into execution of process.
• Experience working with external technical service suppliers.
• Process Technologies: Merging Tissue-making Applications contributing to Converting Processes.
• Winding and Web Handling experience.
• OEM Equipment Design.

Benefits

To Be Considered Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role. For a complete overview of benefits, see www.mykcbenefits.com.