WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

Innovation, creativity, innovative design and new product development are cornerstones of K-C's success. Because of this, we place a heavy emphasis on research and engineering disciplines. In fact, we invest $800 million each year into the development of new technology and new processes, and we are considered the foremost global leader in each of our core technologies, including absorbency, fibers and nonwovens. We're expanding our capabilities to include skin care/treatment, infection control, sensors/diagnostics, functional packaging as well as environmental sustainability. Our corporate innovation and business unit product and technology development professionals, which include the traditional research and engineering disciplines, have access to the resources and tools within an environment that fosters excellence and risk-taking.

For research and development positions, K-C recruits experienced professionals whose education and work experience come from a wide variety of backgrounds to meet our changing business needs, including apparel design, biochemistry, biology and microbiology, chemical engineering, chemistry, material science or polymer science. Engineering opportunities generally require a bachelor of science degree and relevant work experience in traditional engineering disciplines, or related fields.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

As a member of K-C's research and engineering teams, you will provide expertise, consultation and facilitation to transform key insights into tactical recommendations and solutions to meet unmet or under-met needs of K-C and our customers, shoppers and users.

process engineering - Focuses on productivity improvement, quality capability improvement, and change documentation and typically works as part of a team interfacing with other disciplines to achieve objectives in technology development and productivity improvements.

mechanical engineering - Works on development, design, application, project management and troubleshooting to test and support equipment for manufacturing.

electrical engineering - Concentrates on application engineering in technologies such as programmable servo drives, distributed control systems with network communications, sensor development for quality control and high-speed integrated process equipment.

product development - Provide expertise, consultation and facilitation to transform insights and research into profitable new growth opportunities for K-C; work in any one of our existing business units, or in our enterprise growth incubator - the growth engine for K-C's new business opportunities. While relevant industry experience is required for some roles, our expanding portfolio of business opportunities allows talented people from a variety of backgrounds to contribute to the future growth of K-C.