Senior R&D Engineer - Dispensers

Description

Senior R&D Engineer – Dispensers

Permanent, Full Time

Location : UK, Walton Oaks (Hybrid)

Competitive Salary + Benefits

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.

We are currently seeking a highly motivated Senior R&D Engineer to join the Kimberly-Clark International Family Care and Professional (IFP) R&D Team, focused on the development, commercialisation, and life cycle maintenance of our Professional washroom dispensing systems. The role will report to the Consumer & Customer Interface Director within the IFP Innovation team.

In this role you will need to be seasoned enough to explain complex technical information to others and provide / present program updates and recommendations to stakeholders. Experience working with plastics injection molding would be advantageous, as would knowledge of IoT connectivity including back-end architecture, security, and programming.

The role is critical to developing, commercialising, and maintaining a robust dispensing portfolio, including IoT solutions based on customer needs that will create an exceptional customer experience. The incumbent will be a key contributor in ensuring quality and adherence to design specifications, they will work closely with internal and external development partners to prototype, test, and bring new designs and / or improvements to market. This position requires an individual with the ability to think customer globally and communicate across numerous functional groups.

Working with Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, and Sales teams, this person will :

Drive projects to develop and commercialise washroom dispenser systems

Support proactive service maintenance and problem diagnosis, along with guiding and aiding in problem remediation

Drive continuous improvement by identifying and kickstarting initiatives to improve stability, reliability, and availability

Provide customer facing technical support and problem resolution for IoT systems, including sensors, gateways and other peripherals.

Track customer complaints and lead customer facing technical support for advanced problems

Develop robust timelines and manage budgets for good project control

Plan and carry out project responsibilities with limited assistance and direction

Communicate and document project plans and results to key stakeholders

Document and protect intellectual propert

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 we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works : flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

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. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications :

A Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a related major scientific field or engineering discipline from an accredited university ideally with a minimum of 5-10 years of experience in a variety of technical assignments

Experience in communicating with end users, business teams and management to collect requirements, describe product features and refine technical designs

Demonstrated ability to work independently or as part of a team to organise and drive projects to completion within required timeframes, managing internal teams and external joint development partners

Strong knowledge of modern IoT architecture and cloud-based software solutions

Good understanding of software development fundamentals and practical experience with different OS, programming languages, development tools and cloud services

Excellent project management skills and ability to manage timelines for development and deployment effectively

Outstanding communication, interpersonal and leadership skills

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see .

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch pounds when caring for yourself or dependents.

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

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And finally, the fine print….

Primary Location

Walton Oaks

Additional Locations

EMEA Anywhere, Germany-Flexible Location, Germany -Koblenz, Germany -Mainz

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time