Lead Mechanical Engineer
About The Position
The Lead Mechanical Engineer role 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. This position will focus on driving continuous improvement, reducing obsolescence, and improving reliability for the assets they support. Scope: Incumbent reports to Product System Manager. This position will have engineering, maintenance, and reliability responsibilities for the assets they are assigned, and support other site mechanical work as needed.
Requirements
- Requires a Bachelor or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
- 3 plus years industrial experience in a variety of technical or operational assignments in a high-speed consumer product manufacturing and/or staff environment.
- A demonstrated ability to perform in cross-functional teams to achieve objectives within required timeframes.
Nice To Haves
- Extensive knowledge with tissue making production equipment, materials, and processes is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability of writing and presenting updates to leadership.
- Multiple years of experience in a variety of plant manufacturing and staff support or capital project assignments, including maintenance, utilities, and asset support.
- Experience working with external technical service providers.
- Familiarity with high-speed manufacturing equipment machine startups.
- Experience and expertise with Kimberly-Clark engineering procedures and processes is beneficial
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver equipment and processes that meet safety requirements, policies, and guidelines. Provides 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.
- Seeks, recognizes, defines, and solves complex technical issues to root cause to achieve objectives.
- Participates 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
- 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.
- Involved with early design, technology, equipment selection, sizing, location, etc.
- Oversight and support during installation and commissioning.
- Liaison with utilities/facilities teams so impact of operational changes is understood, and solutions are in place when needed.
Benefits
- 401(k) and Profit Sharing plan
- Eligibility for a target bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
