Process Engineer

About the role

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.

Job responsibilities

• Focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.
• 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.
• Drive continuous improvement and lead troubleshooting and problem solving to drive process improvements for the assets they support.
• 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.
• Solves complex process issues to root cause to achieve objectives.
• Supports the development of others within the area of the incumbent's expertise, including the creation of knowledge transfer documentation materials.
• Participates in the development of others within the area of the incumbent's expertise, including the creation of knowledge transfer documentation materials.
• Supports maintenance personnel when troubleshooting complex issues.
• Identifies and documents issues and opportunities with existing equipment.
• Supports and participates in training plans for process resources at the site.
• Leads a safety work team.
• Pays attention to reliability projects.
• Assists team with trial planning and trial preparation.
• Supports assets using engineering knowledge, including being on-call and potential shift coverage.
• Provides input to plant expense and capital plans.
• Provides input to capital teams so proposed changes are in-line with the 5-year vision.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical Engineering or Paper Science or related discipline
• 3+ years industrial experience in a variety of technical or operational assignments in a high-speed consumer product manufacturing and/or staff environment.
• A demonstrated ability to work independently, or as part of a team to complete projects within required timeframes.
• Experience using manufacturing analysis tools, such as: statistical process control, design of experiments, process capability studies, Six Sigma and lean manufacturing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge with personal care wipes production equipment, materials, and processes is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability of writing and presenting updates to leadership.
• Multiple years of experience in a variety of mill manufacturing and staff support or capital project assignments, including product, process and asset support.
• Experience working with external technical service providers.
• Familiarity with high-speed manufacturing equipment machine startups.
• Led by Purpose. Driven by You. Total Benefits