Engineering Technical Leader

Engineering Technical Leader

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering or related discipline OR 15+ years industrial experience or another equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop team members.
• Demonstrated track record in leading and directing a technical team and projects that successfully meet business objectives.
• Frequently a recognized expert in a key part of the K-C proprietary knowledge base.
• A strong digital OT Engineering / Technical expert level background is required for this position.
• Subject matter expert in OT manufacturing technologies, products, and processes, with extensive facility understanding of manufacturing operation and processes.
• Ability to effectively influence across all levels and functions in the organization, drive decision-making and execute complex projects on demanding timelines.
• Strong recognized problem-solving skills, including Complex Problem Solving, with the ability to conduct larger problem-solving sessions on business-critical issues (in this mill or others).
• LSS methodology and ability to progress to the Black belt level.

Responsibilities

• Be the site point person for the OT Support Center (OTSC)
• Coordinate communication from the OTSC to site engineers, technicians, and mill leadership (drive ownership down to asset engineer level – educate & delegate)
• Drive accountability at the mills to meet OT requirements.
• Deployment and on-going support of OTbase, a tool and platform that is used for the asset management of the OT environment. Requires training others and is the point person for raising issues back to OTSC
• Facilitate the awareness and usage of digital tools to support OT environment, e.g., Splunk
• Participates in project reviews and sets direction and ensures that appropriate resources are involved (i.e., DTS/MOSAIC and mill engineers)
• Infrastructure planning for key upgrades, thinking longer-term benefits and aligning technology solutions, consistent with sector & regional standards
• Security / training – educating mill resources and ensuring compliance with cyber security standards and policies, including on-boarding of new EEs, electrical or instrument reliability techs
• MOSAIC infrastructure obsolescence / asset management (the controls portion would be the mill capital vs. the infrastructure would need to be driven from the OT side working in conjunction)
• Keep connected with industrial automation control systems and the impact to the OT environment (drives, controllers, electrical devices, safety systems, power distribution, etc.) – Aligning to standards for implementation
• Provide leadership by example in corporate safety, quality, regulatory, product safety and sustainability.
• Support the application of the sector Quality Management Process in all assignments and responsibilities.
• Ensure that all elements of the corporate Human Resources Development and Diversity policy are fully supported as appropriate for the position.
• Manage self in accordance with the K-C Ways of Working, utilize LEAN principles in the development and management of work and drive change within the organization as a role model for process improvement.
• Protect and defend K-C proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.
• Locate existing, internal or external, or novel technology solutions for process and product needs 3 – 5 years from commercialization that enable realization of business unit strategies. Recommend strategies to protect novel technology solutions to sustain identified advantage in market.
• Apply engineering principles, standards and procedures in the execution of projects and programs to advance process innovation.
• Experienced working with external technical service providers and suppliers.
• Maintain technical and scientific expertise in an area of technology and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark.
• Coach and teach team members to increase technical understanding and effective communication of technical accomplishments and to promote growth of leadership qualities.
• Implement the documentation and report of unit work as required by KC policy, effective communication, protection of proprietary information, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to discuss technical issues in a business environment (mill technical and operations resources, suppliers, management, etc.).
• Communicate appropriately with all customers, conducting all communications and transactions with the utmost integrity and honesty to build an unimpeachable business reputation.
• Support Lean Six Sigma methodology through mentoring of candidates, as well as preference to either be LSS black belt certified or actively working towards certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference to either be LSS black belt certified or actively working towards certification.