Automation Project Execution Engineer

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.

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World. As a person, you’re a problem-solver – a connector – someone who thrives on creating order from complexity and driving continuous improvement. You see the big picture while mastering the details, ensuring that every product, process, and partnership flows with precision and purpose. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity, efficiency, and collaboration, always working to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s success stories. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

In one of our Supply Chain 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:

Leading the execution of Material Movement Automation capital projects across North American manufacturing and distribution locations.

Managing engineering, facility layout, equipment installation, capacity, and other project activities to achieve automation objectives.

Partnering with Technical Service Providers, suppliers, Procurement, and cross-functional teams to design and successfully implement automation solutions.

Facilitating design discussions across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Logistics, EHS, and IT to align project scope, requirements, and execution.

Driving value engineering and cost-saving opportunities while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, regulatory, and financial requirements.

Coaching and developing Technical Service Providers and project team members to strengthen technical capabilities and improve project execution.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 5+ years of related experience, or equivalent relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

Expertise in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering or Mechatronics with a demonstrated ability to translate that knowledge into execution of process and capacity improvements in capital or expense projects.

Demonstrated success in leading and delivering on capital projects - management/execution

Incumbent should have the ability and flexibility to work in a distribution or manufacturing environment with a 24/7 operation

Incumbent should be flexible to travel >50% as dictated by business need for meetings, design/develop and start-up support, benchmarking, or best practice sharing across North America

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the design requirement and safe operation of high-speed tissue manufacturing / Tissue Converting, high-speed personal care product manufacturing equipment and Logistics/Distribution facilities processes with an ability to translate that knowledge in support of automation implementation projects.

Experience in a combination of engineering, operations, and/or leadership

Experience with logistics and/or manufacturing automation technologies such as AGVs, AMRs, 6 axis robotics, etc. with desire to grow and employ that knowledge as a subject matter expert.

Related technical experience includes various roles at both mill/staff locations and/or cross sector experiences.