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Job Description

Technical Service Engineer, Clean Fuels Technology

As Technical Service Engineer, Clean Fuels Technology (CFT), your role will be in the Global Technical Excellence Team of our Catalysts Business Unit.  In this job, based in our Amsterdam office (The Netherlands), you will apply your skills in creating technical proposals in the field of hydroprocessing in the oil refineries. You will also monitor and evaluate the hydroprocessing unit operations and Albemarle’s catalyst performance with the aim to increase unit performance and customer satisfaction, ultimately resulting in repeat business. You will be active in the field of refineries’ hydroprocessing units for middle distillate and FCC pretreat applications. For this purpose you will use state-of-the-art in-house kinetic models and tools. Your role is to optimally support our Technical Sales Department and Technical Specialists to help realize the business and sales objectives. In your role you will be expected to identify possibilities for  improvements in the models and tools that are used and assist in validating them. For this you will work closely with our Modeling Team. Your contribution will also be sought for standardization and efficiency improvements and development of best practices as well as maintaining and sharing technical knowledge within the global technical and sales teams.

Responsibilities:

• Develop technical forecasts and catalyst loading diagrams for refill opportunities (middle distillates / FCC-PT) using state-of-the-art in-house kinetic models, including selection of reference cases and logging of the forecasting process

• Prepare high quality technical proposals for hydroprocessing units for existing and potential customers with the aim of selling catalyst, in consultation and co-operation with our Technical Specialists and Technical Sales

• Monitor and evaluate HPC unit operations and catalyst performance in consultation with our Technical Specialists and Technical Sales, with the aim to increase unit performance and customer satisfaction, ultimately resulting in repeat business

• Set up HPC Unit Monitoring model and/or add unit data to existing model for catalyst performance evaluation purposes

• Adopt standardized work processes and best practices and contribute to and make suggestions for standardization and efficiency improvement efforts. Support implementations of best practices in the global organization.

• Contribute to maintaining and sharing technical knowledge within the global Technical Excellence and Technical Sales teams

• Contribute to improvements and validation of new releases of the kinetic models and tools

Education:

• MSc in Chemical Engineering or equivalent

• Strong BSc candidates with proven experience will also be considered

Experience and qualifications:

• Preferably 3 years of experience in process design or refining process industry related to operation of hydroprocessing units or in catalyst development or manufacturing.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to be able to work in an international team

• Service minded attitude and team focus through an active contribution to a joint result

• Analytical and solution oriented thinking

• An eye for consultation and listening and being able to respond clearly and with arguments

• Accurate and self-motivating

• Very good English skills both written and spoken. Other language skills are welcome, i.e. Dutch, French, Spanish

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