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Researcher, PP/Catalloy PD&CD
LyondellBasell. Develop new and improved polypropylene and Catalloy products for business, customer, manufacturing, and market needs .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in polymer engineering and product development, with a strong focus on polypropylene and Catalloy products. Capable of applying scientific principles to design experiments, analyze data, and translate technical findings into actionable business insights.
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PhD In Chemical EngineeringPolymer CharacterizationProduct DevelopmentCircular Design PrinciplesTechnical Documentation
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Hard Skills
Polymer ProcessingPolymerizationExperimental DesignData AnalysisFormulation DevelopmentCost Reduction TechniquesProduct Safety AssessmentTechnical Report WritingInjection MoldingThermoforming
Soft Skills
Effective CommunicationProblem SolvingProject ManagementTechnical CuriosityCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
Digital ToolsData-Analysis ToolsModeling SoftwareAI-Enabled Tools
Industry Keywords
PolyolefinsRecycled MaterialsManufacturing SupportHSE ComplianceResearch Integrity
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Develop new and improved polypropylene and Catalloy products for business, customer, manufacturing, and market needs
- Support virgin and circular product development, including new products, formulation and product improvements, cost reduction, manufacturing support, and recycled or renewable feedstocks
- Demonstrate GoalZERO behaviors and contribute to a safe laboratory, pilot-plant, and manufacturing environment
- Plan and document work according to HSE, product-safety, regulatory, and research-integrity requirements
- Translate customer, market, manufacturing, and business needs into value statements, technical questions, hypotheses, and experimental plans
- Apply catalyst-reactor-structure-processing-properties understanding to develop products for injection molding, thermoforming, film, fiber, and nonwovens
- Design and conduct laboratory and pilot-scale experiments; analyze results; support plant trials, qualification, industrialization, and commercial implementation
- Support product improvements, formulation and raw-material changes, cost reductions, manufacturing troubleshooting, and portfolio optimization
- Assess product-safety and regulatory requirements in product development and portfolio improvements
- Generate technical documentation and contribute to technical reports, invention disclosures, patent applications, and intellectual-property activities
- Apply circular-design and design-for-recycling principles
- Evaluate recycled-material composition, contamination, variability, and degradation effects on processing and product performance
- Collaborate with R&D, Manufacturing, Technical Service, Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Product Safety, Intellectual Property, global R&D, and external technical partners
- Participate in or coordinate cross-functional project teams and communicate evidence, uncertainty, implications, recommendations, and next steps
- Manage assigned work, balance project priorities and resources, lead product-development projects, drive deliverables, and present projects to stakeholders
- Use approved digital, data-analysis, modeling, and AI-enabled tools to synthesize technical information, analyze data, develop hypotheses and plans, and communicate results
- Verify important digital and AI outputs against source information and experimental evidence and protect confidential information
Requirements
What you’ll need- PhD in Chemical Engineering, Polymer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field, with research relevant to polymers or polymeric materials
- Suitable for a new graduate or early-career researcher
- Prior experience involving polyolefins, polymer characterization, polymer processing, product development, polymerization, circularity, or related material systems is preferred
- Direct PP or Catalloy experience is helpful but not required
- Applies polymer-science or engineering fundamentals and structure-processing-properties reasoning
- Ability to make predictions, formulate hypotheses, design controlled experiments, and interpret data
- Technical curiosity and ability to test competing explanations
- Technical rigor and ability to turn theory and data into supported conclusions and next steps
- Accurate and effective written, in-person, and virtual communication with multiple audiences
- Ability to connect technical work to customer, plant, product, portfolio, or business needs
- Hands-on problem solving, ownership, follow-through, and effective management of changing priorities
- Ability to travel up to 10%, primarily within North America, with occasional international travel
- Applicants must be at least 18 years old
Benefits
Comp & perks- Benefits and Health & Welfare offerings are provided (specific benefits not listed in the posting)
- Equal opportunity employer
- Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities