Senior Process Engineer

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. You want to be part ofa 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.

About You
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. Job responsibilities include:

Carry out all job responsibilities in a safe manner. Develop and deliver equipment and processes that meet safety requirements, policies, and guidelines. Lead risk reduction activities that provide for the safety and well-being of operators, maintenance, and other personnel.

Manage multiple medium-to-large initiatives to deliver improvements to asset performance or plant systems, improve product Quality and conformance and drive systems to reduce variability to meet quality scorecard metrics; lead major initiatives for breakthrough improvements, solving higher level problems for the plant

Develop knowledge and skills in leadership of the application of engineering principles, scientific analysis, LEAN principles, and project management.

Develop and incorporate best practices and centerlines to optimize key outputs.

Seeks, recognizes, defines, and solves complex process issues to root cause to achieve objectives.

Participates in the development of others within the area of the incumbent's expertise, including the creation of knowledge transfer documentation materials.

Support maintenance personnel when troubleshooting complex issues.

Identify and document issues and opportunities with existing equipment.

Develop and maintain training plan for process resources at the site

Lead a safety work team

Execute product and process trials to drive improvements for assets and/or business. Coach teams on trial planning and trial preparation.

Support assets using engineering knowledge, including being on-call and potential shift coverage

Provide input to plant expense and capital plans.

Provide input to capital teams so proposed changes are in-line with the 5-year vision. Involved with early design, technology, equipment selection, sizing, location, etc. Provide oversight and support during installation and commissioning.

Ways of Working with our Digital Platforms:

Tier Accountability T1-3

Extending support to other plant operations as required

Participate in an EHSS Programs as a lead, co-lead or participant

Standard Work, Lead Problem Solves, Lean Projects

Other Assignments as required

Flexibility

Normal Scheduled hours will vary based on the need to support 24/7 Operation

Travel up to 15% for benchmarking, best practice sharing

Potential of Shift Coverage to support assets, projects or initiatives

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Requires a minimum of a bachelor’s or advanced degree in Chemical Engineering, Pulp & Paper Science, or closely related engineering from an accredited college or university.

At least 7 years’ or more of industrial experience in a variety of technical or operational assignments in a high-speed consumer product manufacturing and/or staff environment.

Strong experience using manufacturing analysis tools, such as statistical process control, design of experiments, process capability studies, Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing.

A demonstrated ability to perform in cross-functional teams to achieve objectives within required time frames.

Lean Yellow Belt, proficient in LEAN business practices; problem solving, 5S

Financial Acumen required

Competent Digital, Computer skills and applications for…