Process Engineer

Kimberly-Clark•Chester, PA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. About 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical Engineering or Paper Science 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.
A demonstrated ability to work independently, or as part of a team to complete projects within required timeframes
Experience using manufacturing analysis tools, such as: statistical process control, design of experiments, process capability studies, Six Sigma and lean manufacturing.

Nice To Haves

Extensive knowledge with personal care wipes 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 mill manufacturing and staff support or capital project assignments, including product, process and asset support.
Experience working with external technical service providers.
Familiarity with high-speed manufacturing equipment machine startups.

Responsibilities

This 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 and leading troubleshooting and problem solving to drive process improvements for the assets they support.
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 medium-to-large initiatives to deliver improvements to asset performance or mill systems and lead major initiatives for breakthrough improvements per asset objectives
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 process 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.
Support and participate in training plans for process resources at the site
Lead a safety work team
Partner with maintenance on reliability projects
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.