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A career at SABIC provides you with an opportunity to leave a lasting positive impact to the world and yourself. From excellent health and well-being benefits to our comprehensive learning programs. We offer a wide range of benefits and offerings that recognize that our people have unique motivations and ambitions. It’s all about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. Let’s explore what matters!

As one of the world’s largest diversified chemical companies, we activate the power of human capital to address society’s future challenges. Through partnerships, we enable life-saving medical innovations and help fight world hunger. We are driving the circular economy for the benefit of communities and our planet through sustainability initiatives, such as our TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio. Our success is built upon the collective excellence of our 32,000 employees in 50+ countries. Our values – Inspire, Engage, Create, and Deliver – are the foundation of our success. To learn more about these and how we strive to Be the Impact, click here .

Our purpose is "Chemistry that Matters". This is what drives us to do what we do. "Chemistry" goes beyond applying science and technology to enhance the supply of essential materials to the world. It is how we work, to build long-lasting relationships of trust. “What Matters” is making a meaningful impact for the world – through the customers and communities we collaborate with, so that we succeed and grow together.

It is all about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. We are mindful about the importance of the team we are building and how our team members impact to our culture. We believe that good ideas come from anywhere, being inclusive to diverse perspectives is stimulating, encourages innovation and is critical to our mission. Let us explore this together!

SABIC`s Technology & Innovation Organization (T&I), consists of more than 1500 employees across six research- and ten application centers around the world. The technology organization supports SABIC’s global businesses in realizing its objectives by providing Best-In-Class Technology solutions. Within the SABIC T&I Polymers Technology division, we develop and implement novel catalyst systems, competitive processes, and differentiated products and applications. Our PE/PP Technology teams focus on different technology platforms, gas phase and slurry PE, solution PE/PP, gas phase and liquid PP. The vacancies are located in the SABIC Technology Centers in Jubail – KSA, Geleen – NL, and Houston – USA.

How You Can Be the Impact

You will be working on the development & implementation of innovation programs within the PE/PP Technology teams focusing on different technology platforms and market applications, with global impact in existing and future Assets for SABIC. Your tasks and responsibilities include:

• To enhance polyolefin production processes & product performance in terms of output, quality, consistency and costs.
• Lead and drive highly motivated, impactful, innovative research programs on application development in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders (MD&IS, BU, Technology groups, stakeholders, customers and external parties) to support segment growth to achieve SABIC 2030 vision.
• Responsible to translate customer requirements, specifications and expectations into clear application engineering and processing plans and Design of Experiments.
• To work in a multidisciplinary setting within the Technology & Innovation organization where you will collaborate with different disciplines (business, manufacturing, market-facing organizations), where project approval; execution and implementation need to be secured.
• To define, execute and manage development projects. You have to align 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, catalyst, and application technologies, assess competitor landscape and define gaps and opportunities to improve SABIC’s product portfolio, identify application and resin opportunities and lead key programs that enable differentiated growth and bring the technological challenges of commercial plants into T&I and solve those through translating them to pilot plant scale
• To translate business and/or T&I strategy into plans, guide and coach the junior colleagues in the field of material science and keep the scientific standards of the reports

What Matters to SABIC

• You are educated to university level (MSc or PhD) in chemical/process engineering, catalysis, or material science.
• +15 years of experience.
• You have proficiency in predictive modelling tools (e.g. kinetic, thermo/hydrodynamic modeling, material properties)
• Demonstrated experience within one of the following fields: process design engineering, material science, catalysis, application development.
• You are willing to grow your experience within process development/implementation within an industrial R&D environment in the field of polyethylene and polypropylene.
• You are a critical observer as well as a conceptual and analytical thinker.
• You are able to spot opportunities for existing and future catalysts/processes/products/applications. With the ability to translate them into value propositions for the business.
• You are able to present your project proposals and results in a convincing manner to key stakeholders (T&I, Business, Market-facing, Manufacturing)
• You are able to keep abreast of the state of the art in catalyst/process technologies and gain knowledge of associated fields and disciplines.
• You are able to maintain a network with Universities and institutes in polyolefin’ s and be able to be set up and maintain external collaborations. You are able to set up and maintain collaborations with other companies as technology suppliers or and cooperation’s with e.g. Joint Venture partners.
• You are a team player but you are also able to work independently on your contribution.

Eligibility Requirements

• You must submit your application for employment online to be considered. Please submit your resume using the “Apply Now/Apply” option on this page.
• You must be 18 years or older
• This position is eligible for Visa Sponsorship

Work Availability

Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this position. Applicants must be regularly available and willing to work (e.g. Monday – Friday)] during assigned hours of operation and such other hours as the company determines are necessary or desirable to meet business needs

We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.

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