
E&I Maintenance Technician
Kimberly-Clark · Loudon, TN
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Experience asked
- 18+ years
- Industry
- Packaging
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Kimberly-Clark (packaging) in Loudon, TN. K-C Loudon Mill gives away free product (bath/facial tissue or Hand Towels) for months where safety goals are met.
- They ask for
- 18+ years
- Tools it names
- PLC
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Maintenance Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $54k–$84k.
Median of the low and high ends of 38 live postings that list pay, out of 1903 maintenance technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Tennessee plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 50 other live reliability postings in Tennessee.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (18+ vs 4+)
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 61%
- ✓ PLC 53%
- Welding 27%
- EHS / safety 27%
- Tooling 24%
- Root cause 24%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Full description from Kimberly-ClarkAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
In this role, you will
- ◆Be maintaining equipment associated with the production, packaging and distribution of Kimberly-Clark products through preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance work
- ◆This assignment is primarily accountable for electrical maintenance support at Loudon Mill. This assignment will require supporting a specific asset and working maintenance downs as needed.
- ◆Work on a range of technology and equipment in a clean, well-lit environment.
- ◆Diagnose and resolve a variety of urgent challenges and problems (every day is different).
- ◆Join a team that supports your growth and development.
- ◆Help us advance manufacturing and respond to customer needs with greater speed and creativity.
Maintenance Partners typically work 10 hour shifts / 4 days a week M-F with evening and weekend call-in support as needed.
qualifications
- ✓Are 18 years or older and authorized to work in the United States.
- ✓Have a state and/or US Department of Education accredited high school diploma, GED Grade 12 certificate.
- ✓Have three (3) or more years’ experience of skilled electrical maintenance work within a manufacturing environment, or equivalent.
- ✓Have basic computer knowledge, mechanical aptitude and good math skills.
- ✓Can pass a pre-employment assessment and a pre-employment drug + background screening.
- ✓Can pass post-offer / pre-hire Physical Abilities Test (PAT).
- ✓Can physically work on elevated work platforms, catwalks, scaffolding, and enter confined space.
- ✓Post high school vocational training in E&I technology is desirable.
- ✓Specific trade experience in general electrical maintenance, PLC programing, instrumentation, DCS, and low to medium voltage electrical work experience are desirable.
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
Total Benefits
We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.
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.
Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.
Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
- ✓K-C Loudon Mill offers an Incentive Pay bonus each quarter
- ✓New hires receive paid time off upon first day of employment
- ✓K-C Loudon Mill gives away free product (bath/facial tissue or Hand Towels) for months where safety goals are met.
- ✓K-C is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace, promoting the health and wellbeing of its employees, and ensuring sanitation and safety in the products that we manufacture. We care about the health of each employee, and it is our intent to provide all employees with a work environment conducive to good health. Therefore, it is the policy of K-C that the use of tobacco products by employees, contractors, and visitors on K-C property is prohibited .
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E&I Maintenance Technician
Job Description
Your Job
Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.
You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: this is your opportunity to troubleshoot complex electrical systems, implement and improve maintenance practices in a facility that creates top-notch products for nearly ¼ of the world’s population. Get recognized often by your manager, supported by your team, and see those essential products being used by your own loved ones each day. It starts with YOU.
About You
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.
Accountabilities
Perform work in a safe manner and report unsafe acts and conditions.
- •Assist in correcting unsafe acts and conditions.
- •Re-enforce safe work behaviors among team members.
Demonstrate technical skill proficiency.
- •Ensure that process equipment and work areas are maintained in a manner that meets established housekeeping standards.
- •Actively participate in task analysis and process specific maintenance training, demonstrating retention of key process knowledge and maintenance skills.
- •Participate in activities and work groups which drive continuous improvement in the operating team, unit, and the mill's ability to meet business requirements, manufacturing process capability, and the quality of work life.
- •Develop and continue to demonstrate skills and knowledge about the manufacturing process.
- •Learn and demonstrate problem-solving/ troubleshooting skills.
Maintain constructive and effective working relationships with other work group members, Partners from other process areas, and Resources.
- •Proactively and constructively confront barriers to effective working cooperation, or individual/group performance.
- •Exhibit flexibility by supporting any potential site needs, non-day shift work (nights, weekends) along with call-ins as required.
- •Communicate concisely, completely and in a timely manner about business issues.
To succeed in this role, you will need the following
