Field Service Engineer

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.

Our Technical Excellence HydroProcessing Catalyst department is currently looking for a:

Field Service Engineer

In the role of The Field Service Engineer, you will ensure that Ketjen catalysts are satisfactorily put in use at the customer by supervising catalyst loading and unit start-ups. Additionally, you will support Ketjen’s Technical Service teams with preparation work for modeling/simulation of the customer process.

The vacancy is for our office located in Mumbai, India.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Travel to customer sites (primarily in India and Middle East) and ensure that Ketjen catalysts are satisfactory put in use
• Supervise catalyst loading and ensure that Ketjen’s best practices are applied by catalyst loading companies
• Actively participate in reactor start-ups on customer locations and prepare required documentation before and after the start ups
• Support our technical experts worldwide in their day-to-day activities, such as unit monitoring
• Contribute actively to the growth of CFT catalyst business.

Skills, Education and Job Requirements

• MSc in Chemical Engineering or equivalent
• Preferably some petroleum refining experience, with basic knowledge on hydroprocessing fundamentals. Experience with catalyst loading supervision, hydrocracking or hydrotreating start-ups, is a plus.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken and good reporting skills, necessary for the preparation of the catalyst loading and start-up reports in English

• Good interpersonal communication and collaboration skills and team focus through an active contribution to a joint result

• Ability to work independently and be proactive
• Ability to learn and take responsibility of own learning
• Can-do mentality, result oriented and disciplined
• Take initiative for improvements and take ownership
• An inquiring, flexible and service-minded attitude
• Willing to travel extensively
• Willing and capable to work shifts at the refineries during catalyst loading and startup activities

Career Opportunity:

Joining a successful company recognized as one of the most important suppliers of refinery catalysts and knowledge, this position may lead to several other interesting positions we have like Technical Service Engineer or Technical Sales.

Benefits of Joining Ketjen

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits package
• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

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