Technical Sales Engineer - Fuels, Dewaxing or Synthetic Fuels
Spring, TX, US, 77389
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What role you will play in our team
What you will do
- Work hand-in-hand with Business Development Managers in support of a commercial proposal
- Develop competitive technical proposals with a clear value proposition to the customer
- Construct guarantees in concert with liabilities to balance technology performance risk in agreements
- Interface with customers as the technical point of contact
- Clearly communicating the technology and its value to them
- Develop key contacts and establish relationships with customers at the end-use
- Understand and provide context for technical risk being taken in agreements
- Manage customer expectations versus guarantees
- Supports Marketing to grow business value
- Assess opportunities for value and prioritize
- Assess competitiveness of the offer and provide support to the marketing plan
- Prepare case studies or technology examples for marketing materials
- Attend and occasionally present at conferences
- Interface with ExxonMobil Technical Support: Providing technology guidance and oversight for Technical Proposals, Start-up and Operating Guides
- Lead the Catalyst Licensing business interests with IP teams regarding strategy, patent memos and infringement risk assessments for the technologies
- Seek opportunities to develop and deploy incremental technology improvements
- Support Product Management regarding catalyst manufacturing on catalyst performance
About you
- Chemical Engineer with at least 7 years (10 preferred) in fuels process technology or development, particularly with experience in reactor sizing, catalyst deactivation, kinetics and modelling (e.g. yields)
- Background in (bio-) fuels, hydrotreating, hydrocracking or catalytic dewaxing process or catalyst required
- Operations experience preferred (i.e. a rotation as a contact engineer area preferred)
- Background with developing technical proposals and project economics (NPV models) preferred
- Familiarity with pilot plants and development / deployment of catalytic technologies also preferred
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you:
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
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Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
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