Lead Mechanical Engineer

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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 knowledge transfer documentation materials. • Support maintenance personnel when troubleshooting complex issues. • Identify and document issues and opportunities with existing equipment. • Lead a safety work team • Partner with maintenance on reliability projects • Assist in developing and managing strategic obsolescence replacement plan • Assist team with trial planning and trial preparation • Support assets using engineering knowledge, including being on-call and potential shift coverage • Provide input to plant expense and capital plans. • Provide input to capital teams so proposed changes are in-line with the 5-year vision. Involved with early design, technology, equipment selection, sizing, location, etc. Oversight and support during installation and commissioning. • Liaison with utilities/facilities teams so impact of operational changes is understood, and solutions are in place when needed.

About 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. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications: • Requires a Bachelor or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline • 3 plus years industrial experience in a variety of technical or operational assignments in a high-speed consumer product manufacturing and/or staff environment. • A demonstrated ability to perform in cross-functional teams to achieve objectives within required timeframes. • Preferred Qualifications: • Extensive knowledge with tissue making production equipment, materials, and processes is a plus. • Demonstrated ability of writing and presenting updates to leadership. • Multiple years of experience in a variety of plant manufacturing and staff support or capital project assignments, including maintenance, utilities, and asset support. • Experience working with external technical service providers. • Familiarity with high-speed manufacturing equipment machine startups. • Experience and expertise with Kimberly-Clark engineering procedures and processes is beneficial

Working Conditions: • Normal scheduled hours will vary based on the need to support a 24/7 Operation • Flexibility to travel up to 15% for benchmarking and best practice sharing across KCNA • Ability to work in a manufacturing environment • Potential of shift coverage to support assets, projects or initiatives

Total Benefits

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