Chemical Engineer

About the role

The Chemical Engineer is responsible for assisting in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions requiring the development or sustaining of new or improved techniques, procedures, or products. The Chemical Engineer plans, conducts, and evaluates approaches to meeting the project objectives in a timely fashion.

Responsibilities

• Assist in identifying and organizing requirements and producing specifications.
• Analyze, design, develop, and maintain products and assist in their commercialization.
• Apply relevant usability procedures and principles.
• Produce analyses and mathematical models, and draw design conclusions based on those.
• Build prototypes, products, and systems suitable for testing.
• Set up and run lab simulations.
• Design and implement tests, document results, and develop customer presentations.
• Provide timely corrective actions on defects.
• Conduct or participate in technical reviews of requirements, specifications, designs, code, and other artifacts.
• Contribute to design standards and support design re-use.
• Assign, direct, and review work of technicians and provide guidance to engineers. With seniority, mentor junior engineers.
• Create and maintain product documentation.
• Provide support to field and customers through InTouch.
• Provide user training as required.
• Author technical reports, papers, articles, patents, and presentations.
• Share expertise via Eureka and special interest groups. Expand informal network throughout the organization.
• Keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets. Adopt new practices readily to develop innovative and low-cost products.
• Maintain familiarity with company technology, organization, and business.
• Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements as defined in the risk control matrix.

Qualifications

• PhD with 0 years of experience, or
• BS or MS with 5+ years of experience.
• The degree should be in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, petroleum engineering, biology, or physics.
• For experienced candidates, a background in oilfield chemistry, high pressure/high temperature experiments, chemical synthesis, oil & gas industry, or formulations is preferred.