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At Exxon Mobil, 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 Exxon Mobil 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 canwork** together**.

Exxon Mobil in China

Exxon Mobil has a long history in China dating back to 1892 when its predecessor Standard Oil began marketing kerosene to light the Mei Foo lamps at Chinese homes. Today, Exxon Mobil’s business portfolio in China spans the full spectrum of the industry, from upstream to downstream, chemicals and technology center.

Exxon Mobil has a long-term commitment to China through investments, products, technologies and partnerships, helping meet China’s growing demand for energy and petrochemical products.

Research & Development

Exxon Mobil Shanghai Technology Center (STC) opened in 2011 to develop and deliver innovative solutions to customers throughout China and Asia Pacific. In April 2018, we completed the multi-million dollar expansion of STC. The expansion includes a new, state-of-the-art research and development facility to support customer growth through collaboration and innovation.

On February 15, 2023, Exxon Mobil broke ground on construction of a new technology center at the Dayawan Petrochemical Industrial Park. Dayawan Technology Center will focus on developing new high performance products and innovative processes to bring products to commercial scale.

What role you will play in our team

This job is part of Higher Olefins and Higher Alcohols Technology in supporting manufacturing plants, identifying process improvement opportunities and investigating new feedstocks or products.

This work requires pilot units which can run at actual manufacturing conditions and simulate process flows. Some pilot runs are focused on catalyst testing, while others produce materials to be validated either in-house or with customers.

The pilot units are supported by a dedicated lab with advanced and even unique techniques required for full characterization of feed, intermediate samples and products

All work requires a “can-do” attitude and needs to be performed with the highest quality standards, continuously ensuring Safe Operations as our number one priority.

What you will 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

About you

• 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

• Teamplayer

• 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

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