Mechanical Engineer

Kimberly-Clark
Barrow-in-Furness
3 days ago
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Your Role

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. 

Implementing and improving maintenance practices in a facility that creates top-notch products for nearly ¼ of the world’s population is challenging work, but it’s worth it when you’re recognized often by your manager, supported by your team, and see those essential products being used by your own loved ones each day.

As part of the highly skilled Asset Support Team, the Mechanical Engineer will work under the direction of the Converting Asset Leader to provide both proactive and reactive maintenance support within their area discipline. This will be a hands-on role in both planned maintenance and troubleshooting scenarios. In this role, you will be installing, maintaining and repairing mechanical components of machines and assets in our mill facility, in accordance with our reliability strategy and site safety standards.

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, 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know that these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without skilled workers, like you. Here, you’ll use your skills to make some of the most helpful things for billions of people all around the world - all in a safe, stable, and caring environment. While our products support better lives for billions of people around the world, our company passionately supports the ability for more than 45,000 employees to do their best work and enjoy life.


With manufacturing roles in 2 locations across the United Kingdom, there’s more than one way to create your future with our winning team. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to clock in!

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

As a person, you’re a flexible thinker, a motivated fixer – someone who is always taking initiative to solve problems, make things better and respectfully engage others along the journey with you. As a Mechanical Engineer, you are able to demonstrate your previous mechanical engineering experience, you work best under pressure and you deliver high value to your team by owning issues through resolution, being flexible (in both mindset and practice) and working collaboratively with them toward team goals. You also…

  • A strong awareness for safety.
  • Demonstrate and drive the 3 Safety Obligations
  • Take decisive action when in “red condition” versus standard
  • Conduct all necessary Process health checks and essential care rounds
  • Identifies appropriate solutions to failure. Applies analysis techniques such as Asset Criticality, FMEAC/FMEA, RCM, Fall, Event and Weibull analysis.
  • Develop, track, measure and analyse site reliability metrics driving appropriate action plans.
  • Support all site condition monitoring activities
  • Communicates closely with immediate team and Asset Leader to share condition of own area of responsibility

Total Benefit

Our manufacturing employees are some of our most important workers, our most loyal fans and our favourite people, so we take care of them really well. We’ve listed just a few of the many offerings that the incumbent of this role would enjoy in this job ad. For a full overview of the many Benefits offered to Kimberly-Clark employees, go to www.mykcbenefits.com.

Great support for Good Health with options for medical, dental and vision coverage—and no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions, you can start work with peace of mind.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts that let you maximize health care options and stretch your dollars further when caring for yourself or dependents.

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

Great support for amazing life choices. We know it takes time and resources to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.  That’s why Kimberly-Clark offers additional programs and support for the things that matter to your life, right now.

Fantastic Pension. Up to 20% contribution.

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 www.mykcbenefits.com.   
  • 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.    
  • Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events. 
  • Share Save Scheme: Invest in Kimberly-Clark: we want you to benefit directly from the success you help us achieve. 
  • Pension: Kimberly-Clark’s pension Plan the Retirement & Wealth Saving Plan.
  • Plus, Many More…

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.  

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.  

And finally, the fine 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. 

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position. 

“This role will be part of Kimberly Clark's International Family Care and Professional (IFP) business—an organization rooted in purpose and innovation that has built a legacy with global impact. As Kimberly-Clark forms a strategic partnership with Suzano to create a world-class international tissue and professional products company, this role is proposed to transfer to the new venture once the transaction closes, anticipated in mid-2026, subject to consultation and other applicable legal requirements. This is a rare opportunity to help shape a new global leader backed by two industry powerhouses. You’ll be part of a high-potential business that combines Kimberly-Clark’s iconic brands and commercial excellence with Suzano’s industrial and sustainability leadership.​”

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