Lead Process Engineer

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 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.

In one of our professional 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:

• Provide process leadership and support focused on team objectives. This may include project leadership as business needs dictate.
• Communicates effectively and succinctly in many forms to key stake holders including R&D and cross-functional leaders.
• Maintain as well as gain technical and scientific expertise in areas of technology ownership.
• Drive a culture of documented and protected innovation utilizing patents and trade secrets.
• Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve business results.
• Ensure all work complies with corporate safety, regulatory and quality requirements as well as our Company Code of Conduct.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM-related field from an accredited college/university. 
• 2+ years of experience in production or R&D environments.
• Track record of effectively communicating with leaders and team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• 10%-25% travel with heavier times during in-facility testing or machine conversions.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering/science related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience especially in pulp and paper science and/or tissue manufacturing.
• Key technology areas include tissue technology (forming, drying and winding) and converting (unwinding, rewinding, calendaring, coating, spraying, etc.).
• Proven ability to establish a strong, effective cross-functional network at the enterprise level.