Lead Engineer Electrical - Mill Sustaining Capital

Lead Engineer Electrical - Mill Sustaining Capital

Job Description

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. In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

About You ​​

The Lead Electrical Engineer will provide electrical engineering expertise on the Enterprise Capital Execution North America Team.  The individual will lead and support Capital projects across North America with an emphasis on Personal Care Sustaining Capital.  They will provide leadership and support to the development, design, installation, and start-up of equipment and ancillary systems to address obsolescence, capacity, capability, and safety.  Additionally, they will collaborate broadly across R&E, Supply Chain, Procurement, operating plants, along with key OEM equipment suppliers, technical service providers, and construction contractors. Key customers include R&E project teams, Product Supply teams including the plant engineering, maintenance and asset teams, and external equipment manufacturers/suppliers

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

• Receives capital project assignments from the Capital and Senior Capital Managers; May flow to work across North America Value Stream Teams to provide support for Tissue and Personal Care product systems
• Drive the development and execution of capital projects through the use of the KCNA Project Management Practices (PMP) process as projects are assigned.
• Provide leadership by example in safety, ethics, quality, regulatory, and sustainability, and ensure that all elements of the corporate Human Resources Development and Diversity policy are fully supported.
• Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve North America business results.
• Effectively collaborate with a cross-functional team that includes R&E, Supply Chain, plant operations, procurement, equipment suppliers and external service providers. 
• Maintain technical and scientific expertise in an area of technology and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark. This may include serving as a User Group lead in a specific area of technology or skill to drive learning as well as strategy for future projects/initiatives.
• 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. This includes completing required project documentation through EFS, EDR, and Appropriation activities and following PMP documentation including Corporate Financial Instructions (CFIs).

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

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or relevant discipline (e.g. Science or Engineering related); 3+ years of related technical experience in plant/production or staff/Research & Engineering environments.
• Preferred candidate has technical knowledge and experience with high-speed converting equipment in a plant/manufacturing environment; Demonstrated working knowledge in Rockwell controllers and drives. This includes: Sectionalized drive control and the associated regulation of coordinated sections involving various control schemes, Servo based motion control for position and velocity
• General knowledge of process automation in distributed control applications including control loops; General knowledge of visualization applications for operator interface displays
• Demonstrated working knowledge of line integration and web handling best practices.; Demonstrated ability to teach technical core competencies; Adept fundamentals in engineering systems and tools in order to drive technical innovation.
• Travel is required for this role. Typical level of travel is 25-30%, heavier travel may be required at times during project installations depending on duration or complexity of