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 will be leading the development and commercialization of innovation programs for the tissue business across both tissue machine and converting assets with a focus on innovation to optimize existing products and processes including business continuity.  This role will work within Family Care’s Premium Dry bath tissue businesses, supporting process development, including product preference and differentiation, product supply, and margin improvements.  You will provide leadership to the development and design of products and/or processes, incorporating Sustainability initiatives throughout as well as collaborate broadly with R&E, pilot plant, mill and multifunctional team members and external partners.

In this role, you will:

• Lead programs focused on the development and commercialization of tissue innovation, including product and process optimization for quality and efficiency.

• Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve Family Care’s business results.

• Develop and manage the budget and resource forecast relating to areas of ownership.

• Maintain technical and scientific expertise in the area of sustainable tissue technology and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark.

• Effectively flow to work as priorities dictate within the team/sector and be self-motivated to seek out business opportunities that may have yet to be uncovered.

• Drive a culture of protected and documented innovation to protect and defend K-C proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.

• Works closely with Project Leaders, Marketing, Supply Chain, and I&A teams, among others, to define and validate the product design that achieves project goals.

• Coach and mentor junior engineers

• Able to influence

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 from an accredited college/university

• 7 years or more relevant engineering experience in a variety of staff or mill assignments. 

• Proven ability to collaborate across functions/departments to drive balanced business decisions

• Track record of research and engineering leadership and success

• Demonstrated strengths in some of these areas: scientific experiment methods/analysis, planning/organizing, developing learning plans, comprehension of technical literature and executing consumer research

• Demonstrated ability to provide work direction to team members not in a direct reporting relationship