About this role
About the Role This role is part of the Higher Olefins and Higher Alcohols Technology team in ExxonMobil China, supporting manufacturing plants by operating and optimizing pilot units that simulate actual process conditions. The role focuses on identifying process improvement opportunities, catalyst testing, and evaluating new feedstocks or products, with a strong emphasis on safe operations and data-driven decision making. What You'll Do
- Provide operator input during design and construction phase of pilot units
- Assist in Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and run Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) of new units
- Coordinate installation and start-up of new units
- Run pilot units in collaboration with other operators and lab technicians
- Prepare feedstocks, load catalysts, take samples and handle final products
- Report run conditions and sample analyses
- Perform Pilot Units troubleshooting and identify improvement opportunities
- Ensure preventive maintenance and contribute to equipment strategy
- Document operating procedures
- Focus on unit safety and operations integrity
- Be functional owner of several pilot units
- Discuss run plans, progress, status and results with principal investigator or work requester
- Initiate potential units modifications by following the company OIMS requirements
- Keep the units P&IDs up-to-date What We're Looking For
- Bachelor Degree, Major in Chemical Engineering or Chemistry preferred
- Experience in running pilot units for chemical product and process development
- Basic knowledge of process chemistry and catalysis
- Basic mechanical and instrumentation knowledge relevant for pilot units
- Software skills, e.g. MS office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word) and Outlook
- DCS software programming skills is a bonus
- Good spoken and written English
- Team player
- Hands-on person
- Well organized
- High focus on safety
- Analytical mindset, focus on details
- Able to work independently
- Flexible, adapt to changing priorities
- Eager to learn