Chemist/Chemical Engineer

Houston - United States

Chemist/Chemical Engineer

Location: 5950 North Course Dr, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• The Chemical Engineer/Chemist is responsible for developing innovative and cost-effective solutions requiring the development or sustaining of new or improved techniques, procedures, or products.
• Plan, conduct, and evaluate approaches to meeting project objectives in a timely fashion. Provide timely corrective actions on defects.
• Assist in identifying and organizing requirements and developing relevant product specifications. Create and maintain product documentation. Provide user training as required. In collaboration with internal stakeholders develop product bulletins.
• Analyze, design, develop and maintain products and assist in their commercialization.
• Explain complicated chemistry issues to co-workers having no background in chemistry.
• Complete lab work and transfer new technology to the field.
• Working knowledge of design of experiments.
• Design and develop products that exhibit sustainability improvements (lower carbon footprint, lower toxicity).
• Design, implement, and execute laboratory tests, document results and develop internal and external customer presentations.
• Conduct or participate in technical reviews of requirements, results and specifications.
• Assign, direct and review work of technicians and provide guidance to engineers.
• Author technical reports, papers, articles, patents and presentations. Share expertise via internal knowledge sharing platforms. Expand informal network throughout the organization.
• Keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets. Adopt new practices readily to develop innovative, sustainable and low-cost products.
• Maintain familiarity with company technology, organization and business.
• Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements as defined in the risk control matrix.

Requirements:

• MS or PhD degree in Chemistry, Chemical engineering or similar. 2 years industrial experience after graduation.
• BSc degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, plus additional 3-5 years of work experience in chemicals manufacturing or corporate chemicals environment.

Preferred skills:

• Preferred experience in chemical process development and process troubleshooting.
• NMR interpretation, HPLC method development, experience with automated lab reactors (can be academic experience).
• Drilling fluids experience.
• Experience with polymer characterization (can be academic experience).
• Experience in solving problems with complex chemical processes involving multiple stakeholders.

 

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