Engineering Technical Leader – Process

Engineering Technical Leader – Process

Job Description

You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.  It starts with YOU. 

As the Engineering Technical Leader you will support the Kimberly Clark Professional Tissue & Towel Team, focusing primarily on process & product solutions for the Hand towel and tissue categories. This role is critical in delivering new product solutions to the fuel business growth as well as implementing manufacturing optimization and brand maintenance programs to deliver business results.  You will lead and manage multi-faceted R&D programs in support of realizing short term & long-term business objectives and collaborate with Family Care initiatives, supporting the overall One Tissue Network

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with Product Supply, Quality, Product Safety, Brand Marketing, Mills, and other cross-functional team members to:

• Optimize the health of the current portfolio of towel & tissue products through effective renovation.

• Deliver improved margins throughout the towel & tissue portfolio effectively balancing value creation and value capture (Product Design Cost Savings).

• Lead support of Product Supply needs with External Contract Manufacturer’s towel & tissue supply.

• Lead support of Central Certification efforts by maintaining the annual auditing of the NA Product Supply Mills and External contract Manufacturing (ECM).

• Lead support of Capital engineering projects as necessary to support the towel & tissue portfolio.

• Maintain technical and scientific expertise in Towel & Tissue technologies (i.e. UCTAD, LDC and Rolled & Folded Products Converting technologies) and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark.  Collaborate with the Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP) Technical Leader and Strategist community, representing KCP North America team as the Towel & Tissue Technical Leader.

• Utilize and promote the use of ETQ for the Commercialization Checklist, Specification Management, Change Management and Change Control to elevate Quality in all of Kimberly-Clark’s products and processes.

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

• Manage the relationships between Central and NA R&E project teams to ensure effective knowledge transfer of technology development projects.

• Develop, coordinate, and lead project management plans to ensure the innovation pipeline is commercialized with excellence and activities are executed on-time/on-cost.

• Maintain documentation as required by the stage-gate development process.

• Prepare and implement unit budgets and schedules.

• Implement appropriate internal controls and standards to ensure compliance with applicable policies, laws and regulations.

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 busines