Graduate Digital Manufacturing Engineer
Job Description
24 month Graduate Scheme placement – Digital Manufacturing Engineer (Graduate)
The Role
Who wouldn’t want to be a part of this? If you genuinely want to get your career off to a flying start and be part of a fast-paced Global organisation, where you have the autonomy to make decisions, drive business results, will leverage opportunities to be supported, then this is the right Graduate scheme for you. Our manufacturing function underpins almost every aspect of our business from the purchase of raw materials to delivery of products to our customers and managing customer orders and deliveries, providing a wealth of placement opportunities.
With our Kimberley- Clark professional team spanning Europe, your projects will have a distinct international flavour.
So what will you be doing? Kimberly-Clark is an innovative business looking for a talented, technically gifted Digital Manufacturing Engineer to join our two-year programme based out of Flint, North Wales.
You will be working across our Digital manufacturing network that underpins operations such as Production Processes, Maintenance, Engineering, IT and Logistics. In addition, the two-year scheme will see the successful applicant undertake either one six month or two three-month placements across several key disciplines, in different UK and/or European locations.
During your Graduate programme, you will get to experience working with our well-known and loved household brands such as Kleenex®, Scott®, Andrex® and Huggies®.
What You’ll Receive
We will look to provide you with real responsibility, cross-functional projects, senior-level visibility, formal technical training, softer skills courses and a real impact on important FMCG products.
Across the placements you will develop skills that range across the following areas:
Apply fundamental engineering concepts to technical problem solving and project work.
Source and use data to identify opportunities for improvement, leading to the scoping out and delivery of projects, and creating documented standards to help drive sustainable manufacturing improvements.
Identification and the delivery of improvement projects on site related to quality, yield, energy and equipment effectiveness (improving machine speed, waste and uptime) to enable global benchmarking.
Lean Six Sigma (Yellow Belt) and continuous improvement methodologies and tools.
At Kimberly-Clark, we make sure each graduate has a comprehensive support network. In addition, we look to allocate a buddy within each facility to each graduate in their first year. You will also be supported by a senior mentor for the duration of the programme.
In addition to specific technical training, you will also complete a Professional Development Training Programme (PDP) that will cover presentation skills, influencing skills, personal effectiveness, and business acumen. There will also be an opportunity to discuss support throughout your Initial Professional Development in the engineering council (IPD) if required.
Kimberly-Clarks’ Graduate program is the springboard to growing your career within a multinational organisation.
We are proud to fast track our graduates through our organisations so that you can progress quickly and unleash your power to your full potential At Kimberly-Clark, we are happy to consider requests for flexible working, which can include flexible hours, an element of working from home (up to 20% or 1 day per week when agreed), compressed hours etc. If this is something you wish to take advantage of, please highlight it at the interview stage.
Degree Requirements
You should have completed your technical degree in a relevant engineering discipline and would have been awarded at least a 2:1 or a merit.
Competitive Benefits
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.
What is it like to work at Kimberley-Clark?
The identity of each and every one of our employees makes us who we are and makes our global company of over 40,000-plus employees stronger because of it. We are in the business of providing better care for a better world, for everyone, everywhere. At Kimberley-Clark treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organisation that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and are searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds. People like you.
At Kimberley-Clark, original thinking also infuses everything we do; from our drive for innovation to our progressive benefits and opportunities all over the world. Original thinking is about ground-breaking innovation. It’s also creative and problem solving. Agile responses to change and advancing new ideas while advancing your career. Our Ways of Working – Focusing on Consumers, Playing to Win, Moving Fast and Growing Our People – drive our Culture.
Join our manufacturing teams where you can thrive on new technologies, build skills and be part of a supportive, collaborative team that solves real problems in a clean and safe environment.
At Kimberley-Clark Flint Site, we also love where we live. Opened by HRH The Queen in 1991 and set on 96 acres of landscape, we’re just a stones’ throw away from the North Wales coastline and its many attractions such as Snowdonia National Park, the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley along with other areas of outstanding natural beauty. There’s plenty to see and do!
The Legal Bit Please note:
Kimberly-Clark require that an employee have full authorisation to work in the country in which the role is based and are unable to provide sponsorship at this time. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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.
Kimberly-Clark is a sponsor of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation Good Recruitment Campaign.
Primary Location
United Kingdom -Flint
Additional Locations
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)
Time Type
Full time