What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Polymer Scientist position at Exxon Mobil?
At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
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The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs.
What role you will play in our team
Help grow our ProxximaTM polyolefin thermoset system business. These resin formulations are based on cyclic C5 monomers and other proprietary monomers and additives. Our catalyst formulations have strong foundations in Nobel Prize-winning technology developed by Professor Robert Grubbs and his research team. This powerful combination produces polymers that have the capability to outperform today’s thermoset composite solutions across a broad set of everyday applications such as wind turbine blades, electric vehicle parts, construction, and anticorrosion coatings.
Your role is developing fundamental understanding of how our products work and how to leverage those fundamental understandings to design the next generation products and processes. Core to this role is the ability to develop structure-property relationships between catalyst, formulations, processing, cure state, and ultimate performance. This is a great chance to help shape the future of polyolefin thermosets and develop the governing understanding for product in a growing business.
Your office is at the Baytown Technology and Engineering Complex located in Baytown, Texas. However, a significant part of your time will be spent collaborating with commercial colleagues located at the ExxonMobil Campus in Spring, Texas, as well as occasionally traveling in North America and internationally to support customer trials.
What you will do
- Develop fundamental understanding of polymer product relationships between molecular structure, processing, and properties aimed at developing new products and applications.
- Writing technical reports, white papers, articles for publication, collateral, and / or patents.
- Progress new projects to commercialization using rigorous stage / gate process.
- Provide expertise and consult for major troubleshooting and quality improvements of commercial operation at customers and Proxxima manufacturing sites.
- Support process development through product structure-property relationship development, seeking to optimize process / plant performance.
- Strong interface with the Business team, Process Engineering and Manufacturing groups.
- Identify and acquire capital equipment / technology required to scale-up products from laboratory / pilot scale to commercial applications.
About you
Minimum Skills and Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications / Experience
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep : our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you :
Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.
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