Product Engineer - Tissue
Albany International
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Kaukauna, WI · Posted October 15, 2026
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About the job
Build the Future of Tissue Fabrics with Albany International
Bring your education, curiosity, and problem-solving mindset to a global leader in Paper Machine Clothing and Engineered Fabrics. Join our Kaukauna R&D Product Engineering team and help develop high-performance products that make tissue and paper manufacturing more efficient, sustainable, and productive.
Who We Are
Albany International is the world’s leading supplier of custom-designed consumable fabrics, belts, and felts for papermaking and tissue manufacturing. We also create engineered fabrics for the nonwoven, corrugator, building products, tannery, and textile industries. With operations in 10 countries and customers around the globe, we offer the reach of an international organization and a long-standing culture of innovation in engineered textiles and materials science.
Your Opportunity in Kaukauna
At our Kaukauna location, you will play a key role in developing and manufacturing high-performance fabrics used on conventional, TAD, and other tissue machines around the world. In this hands-on engineering role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve real-world challenges, support product development and manufacturing, and drive improvements in performance, quality, and sustainability. Working alongside experienced colleagues, you will help deliver innovative solutions for some of the world’s largest tissue producers.
What You’ll Do
Support development of custom-engineered fabrics that improve paper machine efficiency, sheet quality, dryness, energy performance, softness, bulk, and absorbency.
Design and evaluate new weave patterns through laboratory testing, modeling, pilot loom trials, and manufacturing-scale validation.
Analyze performance data, troubleshoot issues, and document manufacturing centerlines.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation, solve complex challenges, and deliver high-impact solutions for customers.
Why Your Work Matters
A tissue machine can produce hundreds of tons each day, and unplanned downtime can cost a customer hundreds of thousands of dollars daily. The products you help create are essential to reliable machine operation and the production of high-quality tissue. Your ideas and engineering decisions can have a direct, measurable impact for customers around the world.
Ready to engineer tomorrow’s solutions?
Join Albany International in Kaukauna and turn technical insight into products that keep critical manufacturing processes moving.