Senior Materials Scientist

Senior Materials Scientist

Job Description

Please Note: Position located in Neenah, Wisconsin Metro Area. Kimberly-Clark relocation benefits available!

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

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. Job responsibilities include:

The Senior Materials Scientist will provide materials functional leadership in Personal Care Research and Development (R&D) for Diapers, Wipes and Specialty Pants Discovery for KCNA.  The primary focus will be on materials development for innovation projects ranging from early materials exploration through viability and optimization. The incumbent will provide materials leadership through development and execution of learning plans focused on enabling exploration and Minimum Viable Product and Technology for the existing product forms and new product forms, as dictated by technology or product innovation. Activities will be focused across our North American Personal Care, Global manufacturing facilities, and external contract manufacturers and internal and external suppliers. This role will work in conjunction with R&D project team members and cross-functional partners.  The incumbent reports to an R&D Manager and receives work direction from the Manager and Technical Leader and will give work direction, coaching, and mentoring to junior team members.

• Identify material innovation aligned to meet consumer and business needs within the Personal Care business. 

• Seek and understand competitive technologies and innovation.

• Provide leadership within a team environment to drive innovation from initial product/material prototype, BVs, and helping support the FEI process through MVC, MVP, MVT.

• Collaborate broadly inside the organization with R&E, BG&I Marketing, I&A, pilot plant, and cross-functional disciplines.

• Develop knowledge and skills to be recognized as an effective materials scientist across Personal Care

• Acquire and transfer technical knowledge in the area of materials with a focus on developing solutions for both existing and future products and processes.

• Ability to coach and mentor junior engineers.

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

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in materials, engineers or relevant scientific discipline

• 5+ years of experience in non-woven materials in personal care products

• Strong technical expertise, communication, and problem-solving ability

• Effective leader and implementer of projects and developments

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical direction and long-term strategy related to materials, paired with strong ability to document technical knowledge

Preferred:

• Experience in BCC products and materials

• Ability to work in a matrix organization and collaborate across functions/departments

• Experience with external technical service, sourcing, and supply vendor partners

• Experience in materials and technology scouting

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Total Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.​

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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​

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