Lead Mechanical Engineer

Lead Mechanical Engineer

Job Description

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’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: as Preventing and fixing problems on technologically advanced, high-speed machines that produce top-notch products for ¼ of the world’s population is no easy feat, but it’s worth it when you’re recognized often by your manager, supported by your team, and see the products you produce being used by your own family at the end of the day.

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The Lead Mechanical Engineer role will provide leadership and creativity in the design, development, optimization, problem solving, and operation of assigned assets & supporting processes in a manner that meets safety and operational performance expectations.

This position will focus on driving continuous improvement, reducing obsolescence, and improving reliability for the assets they support.

  

Scope:

Incumbent reports to Product System Manager.

This position will have engineering, maintenance, and reliability responsibilities for the assets they are assigned, and support other site mechanical work as needed.

Key Customers:

Internal to Plant: Plant and Sector Management, Operations, Site Engineering Teams, and Plant Reliability

Internal: Sector: NA Supply Chain Management, Value Stream, and Enterprise Capital Teams

External: Local contractor groups, OEM’s

In this role, you will:


* 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.


* Manage multiple medium-to-large initiatives to deliver improvements to asset performance or plant systems; lead major initiatives for breakthrough improvements, solving higher level problems for the plant


* Identify cost savings opportunities and manage expense spending to asset budget


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


* Seeks, recognizes, defines, and solves complex technical 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 knowledg...