Lead Engineer – Process

Lead Engineer – Process

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or advanced engineering degree, or relevant scientific discipline degree
• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience in a variety of staff or mill assignments.
• The preferred candidate will have a strong understanding of the UCTAD Product System technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide process engineering support to a set of Converting assets
• Provide leadership by example in safety, ethics, quality, regulatory, sustainability, inclusion and diversity while managing self in accordance with expected KC competencies.
• Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve business results.
• Effectively work individually and collaboratively with a cross-functional team that includes R&D, Supply Chain, mill operations, procurement, equipment suppliers and external service providers to ideate and develop advancements in products, brands and mill processes.
• Translate stated needs, brand promises and consumer feedback into tangible and innovative product attributes and the process necessary to produce them.
• Forecast business needs 2 to 5+ years out beyond project team needs to drive long term competitive advantage
• Maintain technical and scientific expertise in an area of technology and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark.
• Drive the development and execution of innovation-based projects focused on long term competitive advantage.
• Drive a culture of protected and documented innovation to protect and defend K-C proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.
• Travel up to 10%

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in improving the safe operation of high-speed manufacturing and/or converting equipment and processes, with an ability to translate that knowledge into support of process, product, and capacity improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently or to lead small to larger teams to implement process improvement solutions or problem solve key process issues.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to discuss technical issues in a business environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor and coach less-experienced engineers.
• Displayed strength of building relationships and build trust characteristics when working with mill partners.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to mine process data from process data systems and provide clear direction as to opportunity areas for improvement.