Hydroprocessing Technical Service Engineer/Middle East region

Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company’s and customers’ futures?

If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.

The HPC Technical Service Engineer is the primary technical point of contact for our customers. You will have frequent contacts with refineries to provide solutions to their hydroprocessing needs, to discuss technical proposals and solve technical problems. You will support the business department with your technical knowledge by assisting them to identify business opportunities.

Location: The vacancy is based in our office located in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Travel requirements: Up to 30% of the time within EMEA region.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Prepare competitive technical proposals and recommendations for hydroprocessing catalyst applications to existing and potential customers with the aim of selling catalyst
• Convince customers to choose the proposed solution
• Perform technical services, like unit start-up, unit monitoring, catalyst lifetime prediction and troubleshooting
• Perform studies for customers to optimize and improve profitability of their hydroprocessing units
• Prepare and present technical papers at seminars and congresses
• Assist the business in identifying technical needs and opportunities
  
  

Required Experience and Education:

• Master’s degree, preferably in Chemical Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in process design or refining process industry related to operation in Hydroprocessing units
• Proficient English skills, both written and spoken. Other language skills are welcome
• A strong mix of technical and commercial skills is required to be successful
  
  

Qualities an ideal candidate will possess:

• An inquiring, flexible and service minded attitude
• Communicative skills: an eye for consultation, listening, and being able to respond clearly and with arguments
• Excellent influencing, presentation and collaboration skills
• Analytical and solution-oriented thinking ability
• A positive drive for initiating and executing improvement plans
• Team focused through an active contribution to a joint result
• Self-motivating and self-organizing
  
  

Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the POTENTIAL of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.