Lead Engineer - Projects

Lead Engineer - Projects

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.

As the Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for providing R&D Engineering Leadership for the Kimberly-Clark North America Personal Care businesses to support new product innovation and renovation, expansion, and optimization.

Responsibilities include leading Engineering Feasibility Studies, coordinating work across a broad range of team members, developing and executing a capital equipment learning plan, and managing success criteria and risk mitigation for assigned projects to ensure a successful transition to the capital execution team.

In this role, you will:


* Lead engineering development through new product development and start up for projects that vary in scope and cost from less than $1MM to over $10MM in support of new product innovation, renovation, expansion, and optimization


* Know and follow Project Management Practices and manage all projects to meet or exceed project success criteria and timing


* Provide engineering leadership to a team of internal and external engineers to establish equipment designs that deliver against process and product success criteria


* Develop and apply LEAN capability to support continuous improvement strategies and activities.

Seek, recognize, define and solve problems to achieve business unit objectives.

Identify complex technical issues to determine root cause.


* Carry out all job responsibilities in a safe manner, developing equipment and processes that meet safety codes, policies and guidelines and for the safety and well-being of operators, maintenance and other personnel


* Review and approve drawings, data sheets, equipment specs, Process & Instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), schematics, and system layouts for engineering accuracy


* Travel: Up to 25%

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.

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