Materials Engineer

Materials Engineer

Job Description

You were made to do this work: 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.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with Product teams to understand business innovation plans.  Utilizing the business innovation plans to support and/or lead development from a materials standpoint to meet business and project objectives. 

• Work with product developers, process development engineers and other materials scientists to secure, develop, and commercialize improved or new materials.

• Develop and lead material qualification plans in partnership with Product, Process, Manufacturing, and Supply teams.

• Partner with Product teams to understand consumer needs and product performance targets and work to optimize material solutions to meet and exceed consumer needs.

• Connect with Project teams and ensure development/commercialization work for material qualification is effectively progressed.

• Collaborate with key material suppliers to develop relationships and technologies to accelerate innovation to our consumers.

• Support pipeline building of design to value efforts.

• Ensure all work complies with corporate safety, regulatory, product safety, and sustainability requirements.

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.

In one of our R&D 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:

• Bachelor's degree in related scientific or engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of industry experience in research or engineering, product/material development, project management roles or other related experience.
• A demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and across functional boundaries to complete projects within required timeframes.
• Exceptional skills effectively communicating/translating complex technical concepts to others.
• Travel up to 15% if needed, including some international travel.
• Vendor management experience, is a plus.
• Experience analyzing material properties and impact on product performance, preferred.
• Experience in materials development including translating material development needs from prototype to commercial scale demonstrations, preferred.
• Experience leading material and product commercial launch activities with global manufacturing partners, preferred.
• International experience in a global organization, preferred.

Total Benefits

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.
 

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars