Electrical Engineer

Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Electrical Engineer, Epping Mill, Cape Town

Job posting closing date: 18th November 2026, end of day

As a person, you’re a learner, a natural leader, and someone who is always looking for ways to make things better while bringing others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest standards of integrity, safety, and quality, ensuring that your responsibilities deliver sustainable long-term results. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

In this role, you will:

Ensure a specific focus area of the Manufacturing Operations’ assets is managed, maintained and operated at maximum efficiency. Enabled by digital analysis, the manufacturing process on all assets is controlled and continuously improved so that quality and efficiency is improved in accordance with the operational excellence and reliability pillars. To Lead and execute Projects as set out by the Engineering Manager.

• Operational Excellence
• Perform a leadership role to the Electrical resources.
• Responsible for owning all electrical initiatives and tasks.
• Capable of leading and motivating a team by setting objectives and driving performance management.
• Train, develop and up skill personnel by means of on-the-job as well as technical and generic training

• Corporate Governance, Ethics, Quality, Safety and Housekeeping Standards
• Manages contracts and contractor control procedures and rules for the department.
• Requires understanding of Environmental, legal and K-C statutory requirements.
• Ensure assets are maintained in a “Safe to operate” condition at all times while promoting all aspects of safe working practices to meet all safety and housekeeping objectives of the plant.
• Contribute to the development of sound safety programmes and maintenance of good working conditions, adherence to the organization and legal safety rules and regulations.
• Continually comply with all K-C regulatory & control requirements, internal controls, while at all-times driving accountability and compliance on the asset.
• Manage changes in process requirements brought by changes in product specifications and productivity requirements.

• Project Management
• Manage Projects in line with CPC and CFI as issued by the Engineering Manager.

Continuous Improvement

• Electrical Engineering
• To optimise the electrical related components of assets within a key focus area of the Mill through the design of new electrical and electronic process control systems together with optimisation / maintenance of existing process control systems in order to achieve optimum plant and process performance according to K-C Reliability pillars.
• Manage changes in process requirements brought by changes in product specifications and productivity requirements.

• Digital Architecture
• Provide technical and operational expertise to achieve quick and timely solutions to SMOM related problems within all site asset team areas.
• Provide support for developing and implementing plans and programs for sustaining the long term growth of SMOM to meet Mill objectives.
• Assist the SMOM to develop and maintain data flows into SMOM (manual entries, PLC inputs, etc.) for generating information from SMOM (reports, dashboards etc.) to drive improved visibility and faster decision making for asset teams, engineers and site leadership.

• Data Analysis
• Analyse and interpret data to enable technical teams to achieve performance targets in accordance with P2030 and Manufacturing best practice.
• Analyse relevant verified data to identify opportunities for improvement in areas of Electrical Engineering and Asset Care across a specific area and in collaboration with cross functional teams.

• Asset Care
• Lead the maintenance strategy on the Assets to provide continuous improvement in uptime and yield.
• Ensure Shift Electrical resources are responsible for first-line asset breakdowns and if unable to resolve to escalate it.
• Support, operations teams on all asset downs (in response to evaluations, feedback, minimising delay.
• Ensure that all the necessary system backups and replacements are in place.

About Us

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.

In this manufacturing role, 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:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• ESSENTIAL:
• Minimum BEng Electrical (Electronic) engineering or equivalent tertiary education or experience.
• Minimum of 3-5 years previous electrical, electronic or instrumentation engineering experience (process and maintenance experience) in the FMCG environment.
• Project Management Skills.
• 3-5 years’ process experience and software development in the high-speed manufacturing environment.
• 3-5 years PLC programming and drives knowledge (Siemens/Allan Bradley/Honeywell ABB/ Emerson/Siemens/ DNA).
• 3-5 years’ experience working with the K-C specific electrical systems such as PRISM, Wonderware, Factory Talk, Rockwell and PILZ.

• ADVANTAGEOUS:
• Knowledge of at least one of the manufacturing machines in one or more K-C category, Family Care or Personal Care.
• Lean manufacturing and process improvement experience (Lean Six Sigma problem solving (Yellow/Green belt).
• Has demonstrated good leadership qualities in line with K-C policies and practices.

• Key Digital Competencies
• Software:
• In-depth knowledge of the following K-C Systems OSI PI Vision, MES.
• Working knowledge of SAP, ETQ and PASS

• Advanced Control and Automation Systems
• Advanced knowledge of the process and associated control systems with the
• manufacturing process Field networks, e.g., Profibus, ASi PLC, Design, install, configure, maintain System Platform Architecture, Design configure and monitor IO severs and implement SCADA technology Process Control
• Loop Technology, Advanced Control Systems, Manufacture Infrastructure Architecture, Server network segregation and security.
• Systems Governance, Batch Technology.

• Systems and SMOM Knowledge
• lloT, Digital Manufacturing (Industry 4.0 and 5.0), Manufacturing Execution Systems, ISA-95 Model GE Plant Applications, OSIsoft PI Systems structures and design, Microsoft productivity solutions, especially Excel, Electrical and systems safety.

• Advanced Excel
• Ability to use advanced features of excel including but not limited to “what if scenarios forecasting and advanced statistical analysis

• Other Software
• In-depth knowledge of Power BI. A knowledge and understanding within Python and/or SQL application would be an added advantage.
• Mathematical and Statistical Skills
• To be able to apply an in-depth level of analytical thinking to data analysis to solve complex problems.
• Functional Software
• In-depth knowledge of AutoCAD.
• Working knowledge of Wave.

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.

South Africa:

As part of your Total Rewards package, you will be entitled to a comprehensive set of benefits. Some of these are listed below:

• Reward and recognition – to attract and retain the best talent we offer competitive pay.  We reward excellence and high performance through annual performance related increases and employee recognition awards.   

• Great support for good health – we value good health, and to support you, you will have various options for medical insurance with a 50% employer contribution and Gap cover.

• Planning for the future – Being a member of the Provident fund will provide you with savings to provide an income after retirement.

• Protection for you and your family in case of illness or injury – for peace of mind you will have Life cover, disability insurance and Funeral benefit.

• Learning and growth – our employees value the opportunities for professional and personal growth that we offer.  A wide range of training is available with Study bursaries for external courses and an opportunity to apply for School fee bursaries for your children.

• Employee Wellbeing – our Thrive program covers Physical, Emotional, Mental and Financial wellbeing to help you be at your best, and our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers professional resources and tools to support you and your family.

• Time off – to help you manage your work life balance and cater for different stages of life, we offer attractive annual leave, and policies to cover maternity, paternity, adoption, and parental leave.

• Other – you will be able to enjoy discounted company products.  A subsidised canteen and uniforms are provided at our mill locations.

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.

Employment is subject to relevant background checks carried out in South Africa.

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Primary Location

Cape Town Epping Plant

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time