Job Description
Job Description As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. In This Role, You 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. Focus on driving continuous improvement, reducing obsolescence, and improving reliability for the assets they support. Report to an Asset Leader and will have engineering, maintenance, and reliability responsibilities for the assets they are assigned, and support other mechanical site work as needed. Develop and deliver equipment and processes that meet safety requirements, policies, and guidelines. Provide 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. Seek, recognize, define, and solve complex technical issues to root cause to achieve objectives. Participate 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 and 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. Be involved with early design, technology, equipment selection, sizing, location, etc. Oversee and support during installation and commissioning. Liaise with utilities/facilities teams so impact of operational changes is understood, and solutions are in place when needed. About Us Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you. At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark. 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. Required In one of our manufacturing roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications: Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline. 3+ years industrial experience in a variety of technical or operational assignments in a high-speed consumer product manufacturing and/or staff environment. Demonstrated ability to perform in cross-functional teams to achieve objectives within required timeframes. Flexibility to travel up to 15% for benchmarking and best practice sharing across KCNA. Potential of shift coverage to support assets, projects or initiatives. Ability to work in a manufacturing environment.<