ExxonMobil’s three primary businesses provide products that enable modern life, including energy, chemicals, lubricants, and lower-emissions technologies. We have an industry-leading portfolio of resources, and we’re one of the largest integrated fuels, lubricants and chemical companies in the world.
Optimization Associate
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.
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. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
About Houston
ExxonMobil’s state-of-the-art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors.
By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company’s ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry.
The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I-45), at the intersection of I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston.
The campus was constructed to the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. Its design incorporates extensive research into best practices in building and workplace design through extensive benchmarking of the world’s top academic, research, and corporate facilities.
What role you will play in our team
- Be an integrator of information from various parts of our CCUS business, applying creative analytics and optimizations that help us create a world-class, scalable carbon capture system
- Interact with the various parts of the organization to understand evaluation use cases, collect needed data, define & execute analyses, and present insights that impact decision making
- Run our proprietary system optimization tools and be engaged in the development process for extending these tools
What you will do
- Use optimization tools, financial modeling, and profitability analysis skills to generate quantitative insights resulting in an improved financial performance of our CCUS system
- Leverage strong visual and verbal communication skills to frame decisions, describe insights, and lay out choices that improve decision quality
- Manage a broad set of stakeholder relationships by collecting use case definitions, collecting input data needed for analysis, iterating on analytical solutions, answering questions, and presenting results
- Engage multiple teams / workflows to drive consistency with data flow process and quality
- Collaborate with commercial and technical experts in the creation of solutions to support business decisions.
- Manage relationships with senior leaders across different groups within Low Carbon Solutions and ExxonMobil
About You
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or science disciplines
- 5+ years of combined experience in technical/commercial roles, investment banking, and/or management consulting
- Strong business analytics skills with demonstrated experience in financial modeling via Excel or other tools, and in presenting quantitative insights via PowerPoint, Tableau, or similar
- Excellent top-down and structured communication with ability to present complex ideas to an executive audience
- Low Carbon / Energy Transition or Oil & Gas experience
- Familiarity with financial concepts (NPV, cashflow, ROI, etc.) and how to calculate them
- Demonstrated ability to effectively influence others without authority
- Demonstrated ability to learn & adapt in a rapidly changing business environment
Preferred Qualifications/ Experience
- 10+ years of combined experience in technical and commercial roles, investment banking, and/or management consulting
- Ability to drive impact working with a diverse group of stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- Exhibit deep curiosity, demonstrating strategic thinking to drive long term growth
- Demonstrated experience in large, international organizations
- Familiarity with scripting languages like Python or Matlab
Your Benefits
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:Â
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
- More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com
- Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
Senior Polymer Scientist
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. Â 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. Â 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.
- Provides expertise and consults 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
- Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, Materials Science or related degree
- Demonstrated expertise in statistics, analytical techniques and problem solving
- Proficient in use of computers and possess excellent administrative and organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal, analytical and communication skills
- Good team player and self-motivated
- Must be hands on with inclination to be lab based
Preferred Qualifications / Experience
- Fundamental understanding of polymer product-structure property relationship, particularly as they related to thermoset systems
- Expert understanding in polymerization reaction kinetics, particularly those related to ring opening metathesis polymerization or general chain growth polymerization
- Expert understanding in polymer solution thermodynamics, particularly those related to bulk polymerization spinodal and binodal decomposition
- Knowledge of major thermoset markets, applications, and common thermoset processing and conversion technologies such as injection molding, VARTM, hand lay-up, filament winding, pultrusion, and spray coatings
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledgeable of Intellectual property development/assessment/procurement
Your benefits
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:Â
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
- More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com
- Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
Senior Analyzer Engineer
The Process Analyzer Engineer is responsible for the design, optimization, and implementation of a wide variety of on-line process analyzers to be installed at petrochemical and refining sites. This individual would also provide technical support and guidance to manufacturing site maintenance and business teams. This involves time in the field ensuring that the installed analyzers are contributing to safe, environmentally sound, reliable, and profitable operations and time in the office attending planning and business team meetings.
What you will do
- On-line analysis of petrochemical and refining streams and their final products
- Provides day to day support to Process and Maintenance on analyzer equipment regarding malfunctions and deficiencies and recommends actions to enhance equipment reliability
- Development and execution of analyzer projects and strategies in support of capital projects that impact global energy supplies using safe and cost-effective methodologies
- Support to maintenance and operations for existing analyzer fleet
- Deployment of new process analyzer and sensor technologies, as applicable
- Upholding corporation standards on analyzers and their safe use
About you
Skills and Qualifications
- A minimum of 8 years of experience as a process analyzer engineer is required for this position or a combination of the following education and work experiences:
- A Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry with more than 4 years of process analyzer experience,
- M.S. in Chemistry with a minimum of 6 years of process analyzer experience
- Extensive knowledge and demonstrated ability to use and troubleshoot at least one of the following analytical chemistry/instrumental analysis techniques:
- Gas Chromatography
- Molecular spectroscopy (IR, UV/Vis, Raman, etc.)
- Mass Spectrometry
- Electrochemistry
- Knowledge of sample conditioning system design and troubleshooting, CEMS EPA requirements (e.g. 40CFR Part 75) and troubleshooting, gas detection systems, and analyzer shelter safety design.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to work in a team environment
- Candidates with strong, demonstrated mechanical aptitude are given priority
- You have a long-term interest in developing your career in Analyzer Engineering at the ExxonMobil Beaumont facility
Your benefits
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:Â
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
Senior Customer and Application Development Engineer, Coatings
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 to help prospective customers around the world convert from their existing thermoset products to ProxximaTM polyolefin thermoset systems by demonstrating cycle time, weight, and physical performance advantages on their composite fabrication equipment.
Your office is at the Baytown Technology and Engineering Complex located in Baytown, Texas. Â 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
- Provide on-site technical support for customers producing non-reinforced molded goods using reaction injection molding (RIM)
- Assist customers in optimizing / troubleshooting their process to run ProxximaTM resins and, where needed, provide guidance on equipment upgrades
- Lead application development projects utilizing RIM equipment located in our Baytown facilities
- Personally run this equipment to produce samples needed for these projects and customer sampling
- Provide technical insights gleaned from the market to help guide new application developments
- Provide market insights to inform and update business strategy
- Develop novel technology to strengthen the portfolio of intellectual property
- Author technical reports and technical publications to share learnings
- Co-author promotional brochures and technical data sheets highlighting performance benefits
- Train and mentor less experienced colleagues
About you
Minimum Skills and Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Coatings Science, Polymer Science, Materials Science or related degree
- 10 yrs. of industrial experience formulating high-performance thermoset coatings
- Strong interpersonal, analytical and communication skills
- Proficient in use of computers and possess excellent administrative and organizational skills
- Good team player and self-motivated
- Must be hands on with inclination to be lab based
- Knowledgeable of Intellectual property development/assessment/procurement
Preferred Qualifications / Experience
- Expert understanding in thermoset coating chemistries (epoxy, urethane, urea, siloxane, radiation curing, etc.)
- Expert understanding in coating formulation principles, coating additives, colorants, adhesion promoters, anti-corrosion pigments and additives, inorganic fillers, extenders, rheology modifiers, etc.
- Knowledge of coating application methods, airless spray, plural component spray, brushing, roller, etc.
- Understanding of polymer structure-property-processing relationship
- Knowledge of ASTM, ISO, AMPP coating test methods
- Knowledge of statistical experimental design (DOE) and formulation optimization
- Knowledge of major thermoset coating markets, applications
- Knowledge and experience of hybrid coatings of mixed chemistries, polymeric blends, IPN a plus
- Knowledge of ROMP (ring opening metathesis polymerization) and p-DCPD (dicyclopentadiene) chemistry a plus
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