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For this position SABIC Europe is offering excellent primary and secondary working conditions. You have the opportunity to share your future in a growing international company in an ambitious, professional and dynamic environment.
For further information, please contact:
Y Nhu Tran (Recruiter): + 31 (0)6 15481445
If you are interested in this position, please apply here.
Your Profile
- You are educated to PhD level in chemical or polymer process technology.
- Ideally, you have some process development experience in an industrial R&D organization in the field of polyethylene and/or polypropylene.
- You are a critical observer as well as a conceptual and analytical thinker.
- You are able to spot opportunities for existing and new processes and products and translate these into value propositions for the business.
- You are able to present your project proposals and results in a convincing manner to both business and manufacturing management.
- You have preferably experience in reactor engineering, kinetic modeling, design and operation of unit operations and the use of computational tools for the design and flow sheeting of polymer production processes.
- You are able to keep abreast of the state of the art in process technology and gain knowledge of associated fields and disciplines.
- You are a team player but you are also able to work independently on your contribution.
- You have a persevering and challenging attitude towards your work environment, but you can also accept other views.
- You are fluent in oral and written English.
As a process development engineer you will be working in the Technology Development department of SABIC Technology Center Geleen as part of the professional and international Technology & Innovation organization. Your tasks and responsibilities include:
- To improve polyolefin-production processes and product performance in terms of output, quality, consistency and costs.
- To work in a multidisciplinary setting, both within Technology & Innovation -where you will collaborate with different disciplines- and in the business and manufacturing environment -where project approval and implementation needs to be secured.
- To manage development projects: to effectively define goals and priorities and identify the activities and resources needed to achieve these goals.
- To develop and communicate a vision of new developments in polyolefin process technologies.
SABIC’s Technology and Innovation (T&I) network consists of more than 1500 employees across six research- and ten application centers around the world. The T&I organization supports SABIC’s global businesses in realizing its objectives by providing Best-In-Class Technology solutions. In Europe, the SABIC Technology Center (STC) is based in Geleen (The Netherlands). The primary activity of STC Geleen is to define and to work out research projects aimed at the optimization of existing and development of new petrochemical and polymer processes. We are looking for an engineer for the HDPE Bimodal group.
We are the largest and most reliably profitable public company in the Middle East. Our success is the result of our focus on three key areas: investment in local partnerships, outstanding research and technology programs, and an ambitious global growth strategy. And last, but certainly not least, because of our talented employees who have a passion to deliver. In Europe, SABIC employs over 6,000 professionals and is running 6 world-scale production sites and 4 technology & innovation centers. We are present in almost every European country. Major locations within our broad network of innovation, production and marketing are: Teesside (UK), Cartagena (Spain), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Geleen (Netherlands) Bergen op Zoom (The Netherlands) and Genk (Belgium). Based upon this strong fundament, we are a key producer of olefins, polyolefins, engineering thermoplastics resins, films and sheets in Europe. At SABIC we are pushing the limits further. We are ambitious and striving to become the preferred world leader in chemicals. To achieve this ambition, we strongly invest in our most important asset – our employees. We see it as our task to help you develop a career with us that challenges you in ways that really make you come alive. Make your career happen with SABIC.