Technician Materials

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:

• Perform standard and non-standard absorbency testing to advance project learning and problem solve, working in collaboration with material and product scientists.
• Support project learning plans through product acquisition, scheduling & executing bench performance testing, small scale study planning/placement, coordination of hand‑making products and visuals, prototyping, experimental product trials.
• Advance equipment capability and digital analysis tools.
• Sustain critical supplies, lab equipment and test methods relevant to our product innovations.
• Provide protection to technologies and materials through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.
• Interact daily across the R&D community of consumer, product, process, and material experts.
• Be accountable for the development of improved or new materials that deliver on consumer needs and improved performance in personal care absorbent products.
• Provide leadership and decision making from the SAM/Urine absorbency lab perspective to advance our understanding of absorbency issues, opportunities, and material innovations.
• Work across internal and external partners including R&D, Procurement, Supply Chain, Safety, Building Services and suppliers as required by absorbent lab needs to advance learning in accelerating business environment.

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.

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 lab technician 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:

• Post high school technical education with emphasis towards sciences.
• 3+ years of industry experience in research or development, product/material development or other related experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and across functional boundaries to advance learning within required time frames and effectively communicate results and observations.

• Bachelor’s degree in related scientific discipline.
• Knowledge of and experience with consumer products.
• Experience analyzing material properties and impact on product performance.
• Experience in test methods and scientific rigor in analysis, documentation and communicating results.
• Experience operating in a small, agile research lab.
• Experience with in a global organization.

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see

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