Process Engineer - Raw Materials

Process Engineer - Raw Materials

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.

Summary of Position:

Incumbent reports to the Quality Manager and receives direction in the form of broadly defined objectives. Responsibilities include meeting team objectives and effective use of resources.

Incumbent Demonstrates both personal and organizational sensitivity.

In this role, you will:

• Visibly demonstrate safety as a value by following safety procedures, maintaining a safe workplace and complying with safety rules. Actively participate in achieving organization and personal safety objectives.
• Communicate fully with superiors, subordinates and others who have need to know. Communicate in a way that is timely, complete, concise, candid, and clear.
• 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.
• Develop and maintain a partnership with suppliers to improve supplied material quality.
•  Maintain/update files of supplied material log and vendor contacts used in the plant.
• Incumbent is expected to travel (approximately 10%).
•  Other duties as assigned to meet business needs.
• Attend meetings pertaining to Safety and Quality, or as directed by Plant leadership.
• Establish, own, and execute Raw Material Improvement Plan. Demonstrate a 30% YOY improvement on top 1-2 materials.
•  Provide functional leadership to Raw Material Associate.
• Supports Quality culture by building relationship with operations by spending time on the operations floor.

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 Engineering, 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:

• Education required / preferred: Undergraduate degree
• Lead by example in managing Safety and Quality values and practices in accordance with One-KC Behaviors.
• Knowledge of the raw materials used in production.
• Technical specialist to differentiate material issues versus machine issues.
• Experience with or the ability to learn and use computer programs (Microsoft Office, EWMA, STORM, SAP, SAMS, and EtQ).
• Ability to ensure work is appropriately documented and retrievable.
• Ability to teach others (position requires small group training of operators on specific tasks).
• High level of initiative and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to obtain and utilize quality-related documents and procedures (i.e. Raw Material Specifications, Product Specifications, Quality System Requirements (QSR), Internal Controls).
• Consistent track record of del