Senior Engineer Mechanical

Senior Engineer Mechanical

Job Description

You are not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we are 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 will bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you will help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you’ll provide technical expertise, depth, and leadership in the areas of equipment design to develop, install and startup equipment for new materials. The position entails working with business unit teams to create or modify equipment to develop new processes to deliver new materials and applying fundamental understanding to provide the business with process and material solutions. Candidates should have extensive scientific and technology experiences and accomplishments in equipment development and process trial leadership.  Candidates will have demonstrated the ability to create and drive engineering and technology process initiatives. The successful candidate will be a self-starter expert with the ability to work at the front end of science and technology development, but just as importantly will have a demonstrated ability to drive and implement technical process development projects towards commercial realization through strong collaborative interaction with diverse business functions and external partners.  The candidate must have front end process experience and demonstrate the ability to create learning plans, timelines, manage stakeholders and deliver business results.

In this role, you will:

• Assess business problems and develop a technical approach to address the issue that considers time constraints, resource limitations and any operational issues

• Carry out process and engineering R&E work employing advanced knowledge of pulping process technologies, natural fiber, tissue making processes, and pulp and paper unit operations

• Keep abreast of latest developments in process technology and engineering design including converting understanding, statistical techniques, and mathematical models. Research new process or materials processing technologies in a pilot or larger scale for improved product quality and new product development

• Leveraging technical depth, coach junior team members to build the department’s scientific talent in the areas of process and material development

• Provide protection to technologies, processes, materials, and products through appropriate use of internal technical reports, patents, and trade secrets

• Conduct all communications and transactions with the utmost integrity and honesty to build an unimpeachable business reputation.  Ensure communication of project plans and results to stakeholders, partners, customers, and other team members.

• Contribute to an environment in which all team members are respected regardless of their individual differences and are motivated to improve both their individual and team contributions to achieve desired business results.

• Visibly demonstrate that safety is a value by following safety procedures, maintaining a safe workplace and complying with safety rules. Develop equipment, processes, materials, and products that meet safety codes, policies and guidelines. Actively participate in achieving organization and personal safety objectives.

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: flexib