Lead Engineer - Mechanical

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.

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 meetings, machine install or start-up support, benchmarking, or best practice sharing across KCNA.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position. 

Employment is subject to verification of local policies.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check. 

 Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

This is a P2/Grade 10 and compensation may vary based on location.