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 Consumer Towels business across tissue machine, treatment process, and converting assets.  You will work within Family Care’s tissue business, supporting process development driving towards product improvement, strengthened product supply, and enhanced margins as well as providing leadership to the development and design of products and/or processes, incorporating sustainability initiatives throughout.  You will collaborate broadly with R&D, pilot plant, mill and multifunctional team members, and outside the corporation with vendors..

In this role, you will:

• Provide leadership by example in safety, ethics, quality, regulatory, sustainability, inclusion and diversity while managing self in accordance with expected Kimberly-Clark competencies. 

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

• Effectively work individually and collaboratively with a cross-functional team that includes R&D, Supply Chain, mill operations, procurement, equipment suppliers and external service providers to ideate and develop advancements in products, brands and mill processes.

• Translate stated needs, brand promises and consumer feedback into tangible and innovative product attributes and the process necessary to produce them.

• Forecast business needs 2 to 5+ years out beyond project team needs to drive long term competitive advantage

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

• Drive the development and execution of innovation-based projects focused on long term competitive advantage.

• 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.

• Travel up to 25%

• Work 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 scientists

• Key customers include: R&D teams, Supply Chain teams, mill asset teams, and external manufacturers/suppliers

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:

• A Bachelor’s degree or advanced engineering degree, or relevant scientific discipline degree

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