Senior Mechanical 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.

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long‑term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with 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:

• Develop and deliver equipment and processes that meet safety requirements, policies, and guidelines. Provides for the safety and well‑being of operators, maintenance, and other personnel.
• Lead asset improvement projects from inception by specifying, selecting, procuring, installing, checking‑out, and starting‑up associated equipment.
• Manage multiple medium‑to‑large initiatives to deliver improvements to asset performance or mill systems; 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.
• Seek, recognize, define, and solve complex technical issues to root cause to achieve objectives.
• Participate 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 mechanical resources at the site.
• Lead a safety work team.
• Partner with maintenance on reliability projects.
• Assist in developing and managing strategic obsolescence replacement plan.
• Assist team with 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. Oversight and support during installation and commissioning.
• Liaison with utilities/facilities teams so impact of operational changes is understood, and solutions are in place when needed.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.

You will be maintaining equipment associated with the production, packaging and distribution of Kimberly-Clark products through preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance work. This role is part of Kimberly-Clark’s investment in creating new jobs and expanding its capabilities to produce premium products that are essential to millions of lives around the world, and right here in Loudon. It starts with YOU.

• Requires a Bachelor or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• 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.
• A demonstrated ability to perform in cross‑functional teams to achieve objectives within required time frames.

• Extensive knowledge with tissue converting production equipment, materials, and processes is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability of writing and presenting updates to leadership.
• Multiple years of experience in a variety of mill manufacturing and staff support or capital project assignments, including maintenance, utilities, and asset support.
• Experience working with external technical service providers.
• Familiarity with high‑speed manufacturing equipment machine startups.
• Experience and expertise with Kimberly-Clark engineering procedures and processes is beneficial.

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