Senior Process Engineer

Senior 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.  

As a Senior Process Engineer, you’ll provide leadership and creativity in the design, development, optimization and implementation of major manufacturing and support processes primarily in the SMS department but may focus across the LaGrange, GA plant and GNW sector. You’ll work within the technical team structure supporting trial work, capital, and daily operations to the purpose of expanding our innovation capability, while providing flexibility and personal/organizational sensitivity. You’ll provide work direction to junior and senior technical employees, lead broader teams, other functional team members, co-ops, technicians, service providers, etc. In this role, you’ll report to the Engineering and Reliability Sr. Manager. 

In this role, you will: 

• Provide manufacturing engineering leadership

• Use of process control, data mining, metrics, scorecards, and statistical tools to facilitate process improvements

• Implement capital projects and programs related to regulatory, quality, energy, and statistical process control

• Identify and resolve process and equipment problems

• Initiate creative and practical design solutions which meet/exceed expectations

• Provide support for development of LEAN manufacturing principles

• Have Project responsibility up to $50M and Project team of 5 to 20 people

• Ensure work is documented and is retrievable

About Us 

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.  

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark. 

Led by Purpose. Driven by You. 

About You 

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. 

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.  

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

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

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university  

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in a variety of mill, plant and staff assignments

• Broad knowledge and significant experience in the technical and operations areas and a working knowledge of multi-functional issues

• Previous experience leading projects and teams in a manufacturing environment

• Ability to travel up to 10% - domestic travel

Preferred: 

• Experience using Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, PI Vision, OSI Asset Framework and JMP

Total Benefits 

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.  
 

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nu