Sr Engineer/Chemist Product

Celanese is a global leader in chemistry, producing specialty material solutions used across most major industries and consumer applications. Our businesses use our chemistry, technology and commercial expertise to create value for our customers, employees and shareholders. We are committed to sustainability by responsibly managing the materials we create for their entire lifecycle and are growing our portfolio of sustainable products to meet increasing customer and societal demand. We strive to make a positive impact in our communities and to foster inclusivity across our teams. Celanese is a Fortune 500 company that employs approximately 12,400 employees worldwide with 2023 net sales of $10.9 billion.

Purpose and Summary of position:   

• The successful candidate will develop new products for POM & LFT product lines and collaborate with cross functional teams to commercialize these products.
• Work with customer & customer facing team to identify development needs and translate functional requirements to product requirements.
• Use a variety of sources and ideation techniques to develop new technology concepts that enable new product properties as well as applications.
• Develop new product formulations & manufacturing conditions and characterize for mechanical, thermal and other properties.
• Work closely with other R&D teams, commercial, and manufacturing teams to accelerate technology commercialization.
• Promote new products both within Celanese commercial team as well as customers, support strategic translations related to new products.
• Develop and establish intellectual property through filing of patents and documenting trade secrets.

Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: 

• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering/Chemistry/Polymer Science or Engineering/Materials Science.
• 3 years and above experience
• Fluent spoken and written English
• Self-starter, goal-oriented, hands-on individual with drive for solving problems and finding innovative solutions in a timely manner.
• Working knowledge of design of experiments.
• Works safely in the laboratory or plant setting.

Desirable Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong background in material science, especially on polymer structure-property relationships and polymer blends.
• Working knowledge of polymer processing including compounding and injection molding
• Working knowledge of analytical characterization techniques for rheological, mechanical, thermal properties.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills required to develop detailed project timelines with key milestones and deliverables.
• Work well in team environment and possess the interpersonal and communication skills needed to work effectively in cross-functional teams to drive project from lab-to-commercial scale.