Technical Project Leader, Process Engineering - Plant Extract
Job Description
You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU .
Kimberly-Clark is seeking a Technical Project Leader, Process Engineering to own the scale-up and manufacturing capability required to process plant extract from bench and pilot concepts into reliable commercial operation.
This role is accountable for process design, equipment selection, process controls, operating procedures, commissioning, startup, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. You will work at the connection point between R&D and Manufacturing, translating ingredient and extract requirements into practical process capabilities.
Your role is to develop the physical process and operating system that can consistently produce the required extract or ingredient form at the right quality, cost, safety, and scale.
In this role, you will:
Translate extract and ingredient requirements into process flows, unit operations, mass balance
s, equipment requirements, recovery targets, process controls, and operating concepts.
Lead development, optimization, and scale-up of extraction, and related process steps.
Evaluate equipment and proposed operating procedures to confirm that capacity, materials of construction, controls, safety systems, and operating practices can deliver required performance.
Work with the Principal Technical Expert to convert laboratory learning into pilot and demonstration trials, scalable process parameters, sampling plans, and technical specifications.
Work with Manufacturing to develop process capabilities, operator practices, standard operating procedures, maintenance requirements, process controls, and performance-monitoring plans.
Lead collaboration with contractors, equipment suppliers, fabricators, and technology partners through design, construction, installation, commissioning, startup, and performance improvement.
Provide technical inputs, reviews, decisions, and documentation needed to deliver projects to required specifications, quality, schedule, cost, and safety requirements.
Establish process specifications, critical process parameters, operating windows, acceptance criteria, and control strategies for consistent production.
Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, process trials, designed experiments, process capability studies, and manufacturing problem solving.
Identify and mitigate technical, operational, quality, safety, schedule, and scale-up risks.
Inspect and evaluate process equipment and fabrication activities, including factory acceptance and in-factory quality assurance where appropriate.
Support bioburden control, process hygiene, product quality, environmental, regulatory, and EHS requirements.
Communicate project plans, technical findings, risks, decisions, and results clearly to R&D, Manufacturing, senior leaders, suppliers, contractors, and other stakeholders.
Mentor and provide technical direction to engineers, scientists, operators, and project team members without assuming ownership of downstream formulation development.
About Us
Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and…