Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Mechanical 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. 

In this role, you will:

Report to the Fiber & Utilities Operations Team Leader and receive direction in the form of broadly defined objectives. Assignments may vary from individual contribution to achieving goals through team leadership.  This position communicates directly with the project sponsors in defining project scope. 

Responsibilities include achieving project results, project cost controls and effective use of all resources.  Incumbent is a recognized technical leader, possessing high standards of professional performance, displaying vision and demonstrating both personal and organizational sensitivity.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer for this role will provide technical leadership in Towel and Tissue Recycled Fiber and the site Utilities areas, which includes the Wastewater processing plant/Boilers and air compressor equipment. The individual will be responsible for managing and monitoring the mechanical design, development, optimization and implementation of major systems as required.

Overall responsibilities include the delivery of mill asset performance objectives, delivery of cost and quality of the Hand Towel recycling plant and site Utilities areas.

Projects will vary with each assignment and typically include:

• Project responsibility of $1 MM to $30 MM.
• Project team of three to thirty people including contractor management.
• Single or multiple projects occurring simultaneously.

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:

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams to achieve project results within required timeframes.
• Must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• 8+ years of experience in a variety of plant and staff assignments, including Plant Maintenance and Operations.
• Experience working across multiple manufacturing technologies, e.g. LDC, UTAD and fiber-based processing experience (RF, broke, Virgin) is preferred.
• Experience working with external technical service providers.

Accountabilities:

• Follows Safety Roles and Responsibilities Matrix for Loss Prevention and Control by holding themselves and all team members accountable to its tenets.
• Design and Development: Provides guidance in the initiation, design, optimization and development of manufacturing and supporting processes to achieve unit objectives. Specifically, to include projects that achieve significant cost savings improvements (YOY).
• Technical Knowledge: Develop knowledge and skills to be recognized for expertise and functional leadership in application of engineering principles, scientific analysis and project management while provid