Senior Electrical Engineer

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Senior Electrical 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 Senior Electrical Engineer for the Hand Towels business unit will provide leadership, technical expertise, and creativity in the design, development, optimization, troubleshooting, and operation of TM4 and supporting processes. This role blends capital project leadership with operations‑embedded reliability engineering, ensuring both long‑term asset health and day‑to‑day performance

In this role, you will: • Follows the Safety Roles and Responsibilities Matrix for Loss Prevention and Control by holding themselves and all team members accountable to its tenets.

• Design and Development: Provides guidance in the initiation, design, optimization and development of manufacturing and supporting processes to achieve unit objectives. Specifically to include projects that achieves significant cost savings improvements (YOY).

• Technical Knowledge: Develops knowledge and skills to be recognized for expertise and functional leadership in application of engineering principles and/or scientific analysis.  Provides advice and counsel sought by others.

• Security and Documentation: Provides leadership in security and documentation to ensure the retrieval of data and protection of proprietary information.

• Problem Solving: Seeks, recognizes, defines and solves problems/opportunities using LEAN methodologies to achieve unit objectives.

• Capital Project Leadership: Lead medium‑to‑large capital projects ($1MM to $30MM) from concept through commissioning, including scope definition, equipment selection, installation, checkout, and startup.

• Internal Control: Leads assigned projects/tasks to meet unit objectives within applicable corporate policies.  Places emphasis on CFI and Internal Controls.

• Communication:  Communicates to inform, engage and inspire.  Emphasizes communications as a tool to build collaboration and ensure organizational alignment

• Human Resources Development: Participates in the development of others in the area of incumbent’s expertise, while demonstrating an understanding of those with a diverse background or experience.

• Safety: Lead by example in safety, ensuring all designs and processes meet corporate and regulatory requirements.

• Quality: Analyzes and improves process capability to deliver a reduction in defects and variability.  Identifies, develops and provides leadership to implement products, processes, materials, systems, and procedures to achieve business objectives.

• Diversity: Contributes to an environment in which all team members are respected regardless of their individual differences and are motivated to improve both their individual and team contributions to achieve desired business results.

Scope: • Receives direction in the form of broadly defined objectives. Assignments may vary from individual contribution to team leadership. 

• Communicates directly with the project sponsors in defining project scope. 

• Responsibilities include project results, project control and effective use of resources.

• Day to day responsibilities include electrical leadership for manufacturing asset management teams. 

• Incumbent is a recognized technical leader, possesses high standards of professional performance, displays vision and demonstrates both personal and organizational sensitivity.

Working Conditions: • Full time roll at Loudon Mill.

• 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

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

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: • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering

• 7 plus years industrial experience in high-speed manufacturing environments

Strong experience with • ControlLogix

• Drives

• HMI Interfacing

• I/O

• Experience with Allen-Bradley Controls

• Drives and Motors Experience

• AC/DC Instrumentation Experience

• Flow

• Pressure

• Temperature

• Consistency

• Control Valves

• Power distribution systems (up to 480V)

• NEC and NFPA requirements

• Manufacturing background

• Project management exp

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