Lead Process Engineer - Fabrics

Lead Process Engineer - Fabrics

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:

• Provide process leadership and support the evaluation and execution of paper machine clothing across our Family Care and Kimberly-Clark Professional categories to address innovation, capacity, capability, safety, and obsolescence needs. 
• Partner with other members of the Fabrics team and collaborate broadly across the corporation to drive continual advancement in this strategic area. Partners include R&D, pilot plant, mill team members, and vendors/strategic partners outside the organization.   
• Provide process leadership and support focused on team objectives. This may include project leadership as business needs dictate. 
• Communicate effectively and succinctly in many forms to key stakeholders, including R&D and cross-functional leaders, along with vendor partners.     
• Maintain as well as gain technical and scientific expertise in areas of technology ownership.   
• Manage self in accordance with expected One Kimberly-Clark Ways of Working.
• Drive a culture of protected and documented innovation through authoring technical letters in addition to utilizing patents and trade secrets.
• Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve business results.
• Ensure all work complies with Corporate Safety, Regulatory and Quality requirements as well as our Company Code of Conduct. 
• Report to a Sr. Engineering R&D Manager in Kimberly-Clark’s Family Care organization.
• Receive development project assignments from the Materials Development Manager & Technical Strategists/Leaders as well as individually identify areas of corporate need or opportunity.

• Work closely with R&D, Supply Chain, Mills, Finance, Procurement and Vendor partners to achieve project goals.
• Influence and impact decisions from R&D team leaders. 

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 manufacturing 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:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM related field from an accredited college/university.
• 3+ years of experience in production or R&D environments.
• Track record of effectively communicating and influencing leadership across all levels of R&D and cross-functional organization.
• Demonstrated strengths in some of these areas: developing/executing trial plans, scientific experiment methods/analysis, planning/organizing, and comprehension of technical literature.
• Demonstrated ability to provide work direction to team members not in a reporting relationship.
• 25% travel.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Key technology area includes paper manuf