Senior Electrical 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:

• Day to day responsibilities include electrical leadership for manufacturing asset management teams.
• Be a recognized technical leader, possess high standards of professional performance.
• Identify and resolve process and equipment problems.
• Leading cross‑functional teams to support projects including leading single or multiple product or process improvement projects with a financial scope of up to $10 million from conception to commercialization.
• Technical expertise and problem‑solving ability as well as technical resource development and initiative to create practical designs that meet expectations.
• Strong dedication and support to manufacturing processes.
• Provide functional leadership and creativity in the initiation, design, development and optimization of converting and manufacturing equipment and processes to meet unit objectives.
• Develop knowledge and skills in leadership of the application of engineering principles, scientific analysis and project management.
• Carry out all job responsibilities in a safe manner.
• Develop equipment and processes that meet safety codes, policies and guidelines. Provide for the safety and well‑being of operators, maintenance and other personnel.
• Seek, recognize, define and solve problems or opportunities to achieve unit objectives. Identify complex technical issues to determine root cause. Explore, initiate, design, optimize and develop manufacturing and supporting processes.
• Assist in the development of others within the area of the incumbent’s expertise.

As an Electrical Engineer at Kimberly-Clark, you will initiate, design, develop, optimize and problem‑solve manufacturing processes in a manner that meets safety and performance expectations. The Electrical Engineer for this role will provide leadership and creativity in design, development, optimization and implementation of process control systems. 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 Owensboro!

It starts with YOU.

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

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology from an accredited college or university and 7 years or more of prior relevant experience.
• Prior experience in technical or operational assignments and demonstrated leadership in achieving results.
• Strong experience with manufacturing control systems, variable speed motor drives; HMI (Human Machine Interfaces); sensors; automated inspection systems.
• A demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional teams to achieve project results within required time frames.
• Experience with Rockwell / Modicon PLCs.
• Information technology on industrial automation systems—Ethernet networking design and troubleshooting.

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we’re committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you’re looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.

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