Lead Engineer Electrical

Lead Engineer Electrical Job Description 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.  The candidate for this role will provide electrical engineering support to the Enterprise Capital Engineering team with two focus areas in relation to Electrical Engineering. Focus area number one will be in providing Electrical Engineering Capital Project Leadership. Project activities are primarily focused within our KC North American facilities, but global support may be required. The second area of focus will be in providing Electrical Engineering Technology support for technology deployment across KC North American facilities and will include capability building and oversite in Electrical Technology areas for internal KC teams, as well as TSP provider teams. The incumbent will provide electrical leadership and support for Project and Electrical Technology deployment across our manufacturing and converting processes for existing and planned product forms. The incumbent reports to an R&E Senior Manager and receives direction in the form of specifically defined project objectives. 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: Provide functional leadership and creativity in the initiation of design, development, and optimization of KC manufacturing equipment and processes. Seek, recognize, define, and solve problems to achieve unit objectives while collaborating and maintaining relationships with technicians, reliability team members, staff, and outside TSP vendors/contractors. Develop knowledge and skills in application of engineering principles, scientific analysis, and project management. Actively demonstrate Environmental, Health and Safety as a value through active leadership, positive influence of mindsets and by identifying and addressing risks to prevent loss to our people, processes, and materials, while ensuring compliance with regulations, corporate policies, and plant guidelines. Some level of travel is expected, but the frequency and location of travel will vary based on individual project assignments. Estimated yearly travel ~20%. Project Electrical Engineering Leadership: Provide EE leadership on multiple product, process, expansion, or obsolescence improvement projects from Engineering Design Review through Commercialization with focus on electrical systems. Demonstrate capability to oversee multiple projects and activities, ensuring they are driven to successful completion and achieve the desired outcomes. Provide onsite deployment support during project rollouts at manufacturing facilities, with focus on electrical systems. Will require incumbent capable of hands-on machine interaction and safe machine entry (SOA/lockout/tagout). Provide hands-on EE leadership at manufacturing facilities during project deployment, including oversite of internal KC support team, as well as TSP external support teams. Electrical Engineering Technology Leadership Identify and troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide necessary solutions to eliminate root cause. Assist in the development of others within the area of