Lead Engineer - Mechanical

Lead Engineer - Mechanical

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. 

 

As the Lead Mechanical Engineer, you will support daily case handling performance, improve reliability, and executes capital projects to improve the Safety, Quality, OEE, & Cost of the Logistics System. 

 

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: 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.

About You

 

In one of our engineering 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:


* 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.



* Support daily manufacturing asset performance to achieve Safety, Quality, OEE, & Cost objectives.



* Provide functional leadership and creativity in the initiation of design, development, and optimization of manufacturing equipment to meet unit objectives.



* Lead single or multiple product or process improvement projects with a financial scope of up to $10 million from conception through commercialization.



* Identify and problem solve complex technical issues and provide necessary solutions to eliminate root cause, including leading group Problem Solving sessions.



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



* Assist in the development of others within the area of expertise.

 

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


* Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree from an accredited college or university. 



* 2+ years or more of working experience



* Demonstrated history of proven performance in both objectives and Ways of Working.  This position requires directing the maintenance and operations team through influence and problem solving.



* Ability and flexibility to work in a manufacturing environment with a 24/7 operation.



* Ability to travel up to 15% as dictated by business need for meet...