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Principal electrical engineer

Barrow-in-Furness
TN United Kingdom
Principal electrical engineer
€125,000 - €150,000 a year
Posted: 21 May
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As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.


Principal Electrical Engineer Responsibilities

1. Responsible for the delivery of legislative and corporate safety and engineering standards.
2. Champion, role model and continuously improve all safety requirements, including the supervision of the technical support team and contractors, Includes the Permit to Work process, Risk assessments and method statements.
3. Management of capital projects from initial feasibility study to final close out ensuring KPI’s for safety, cost, time & specification are met.
4. Lead root cause failure analysis and 4 step problem solving. Ensure actions are completed and closed out and shared with relevant parties.
5. Coach, develop, build capability, and consciously improve the way in which mill teams adhere to electrical mill processes and standards.
6. Champion the planning, implementation and continuation of other company wide programmes (such as LEAN, OPEX, P2030 best practise) that are identified within the mill’s asset roadmap.
7. Consciously improve the way in which activities are planned and scheduled, in a way which effectively integrates asset and business requirements to maximise people utilisation and equipment performance.
8. Transfer in depth technical knowledge of electrical equipment in areas of responsibility.
9. Leading weekly asset team meetings. Be responsible for reviewing asset KPIs to drive improvement.

This role will provide technical leadership to the Electrical engineering resources, as part of our commitment to world-class engineering and technology, we’re building on our current electrical capability. Lending your expertise in all kinds of ways, you’ll help us achieve our ambitions across our production line operations. Reporting to a Mill Operations Manager, you’ll ensure assets are operating to their optimum efficiency to maximise output and ensure targets are consistently met. Your knowledge and expertise will be integral to supporting the delivery of the mill’s improvement strategy, the holder of this role will have expertise that will span everything from Digital Control Systems to medium/high voltage distribution.

You will work a day shift, with the flexibility to support emergency call outs when required. Your focus will be to optimise and sustain tissue manufacturing assets, minimise machine downtime, and make cost-saving improvements. You’ll also be responsible for implementing new electrical engineering systems, optimising maintenance of existing systems and managing obsolescence programmes.

What’s more, you’ll train and mentor others, creating a legacy of best practice at our Barrow in Furness factory on the edge of the beautiful Lake district!


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.


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 manufacturing 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:

1. Minimum BEng Electrical (electronic) engineering or equivalent tertiary education or experience.
2. Preferably experienced within a manufacturing, packaging or FMCG environment.
3. Knowledge of SAP computerised maintenance systems and processes.
4. Proven knowledge and experience of initiating and implementing continuous improvements.
5. Applied knowledge and high-level experience of PLC programming, drives and automation.
6. Experience and high-level knowledge of Siemens/Allen Bradley/ABB/Rockwell systems.

We are looking for someone who has a logical and methodical approach and can be relied upon to see the job through to the end. You will be a natural problem solver, tenacious and will use creativity, innovation, and an analytical approach to exhaust all options until a solution is found. A proactive attitude with a flair for quick and efficient learning which equips you well to adapt to the latest technologies.

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.


And finally, the small print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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