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Chemistry that Matters™
A career at SABIC provides you with an opportunity to leave a lasting positive impact to the world and yourself. From excellent health and well-being benefits to our comprehensive learning programs. We offer a wide range of benefits and offerings that recognize that our people have unique motivations and ambitions. It’s all about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. Let’s explore what matters!


As one of the world’s largest diversified chemical companies, we activate the power of human capital to address society’s future challenges. Through partnerships, we enable life-saving medical innovations and help fight world hunger. We are driving the circular economy for the benefit of communities and our planet through sustainability initiatives, such as our TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio. Our success is built upon the collective excellence of our 32,000 employees in 50+ countries. Our values – Inspire, Engage, Create, and Deliver – are the foundation of our success. To learn more about these and how we strive to Be the Impact, click here.


Our purpose is "Chemistry that Matters". This is what drives us to do what we do. "Chemistry" goes beyond applying science and technology to enhance the supply of essential materials to the world. It is how we work, to build long-lasting relationships of trust. “What Matters” is making a meaningful impact for the world – through the customers and communities we collaborate with, so that we succeed and grow together.


It is all about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. We are mindful about the importance of the team we are building and how our team members impact to our culture. We believe that good ideas come from anywhere, being inclusive to diverse perspectives is stimulating, encourages innovation and is critical to our mission. Let us explore this together!



Job Summary

• The manufacturing engineer is responsible to identify and execute performance improvement projects, engineering studies, and plant trials to meet current year objectives as well as multi-year plans for the manufacturing units in which the individual has responsibilities.
• Manage and implement process engineering deliverables for projects, ensuring sound safety and engineering principles are applied.
• Provide technical support for advanced troubleshooting of plant issues and customer complaints and implement corrective actions.
• Provide data utilizing the site’s management systems to enhance decisions and understand issues and options.

How You Can Be the Impact

• Identify and conduct performance improvement projects and engineering studies, including plant trials for new products introduced to the site, with the goal of optimizing and improving manufacturing effectiveness and overall site performance.
• Provide routine technical support to troubleshoot plant issues and implement corrective actions using tools such as RCA, FMEA, others.
• Leads process improvements (formulations, process settings) resulting from customer issues, yield losses or processing issues in cooperation with operational unit, technology and engineering;
• Lead and/or support site improvement initiatives and programs with EHS as a foundation.
• Perform project engineering related tasks contributing with: feasibility studies, pre-engineering (conceptual and basic), supervising the entire process, from conception, construction, commissioning and start-up (pre and post).
• Proactive support on the identification and resolution of operational issues at the site.
• Support on technical resolution on customer complaints in your area of expertise, working with process, engineering and quality teams towards solving the issues in a timely manner and implementing improvement opportunities.
• Implement and control PSM (Policy 8.1 and 8.4) best practices at the site, assuring process safety is followed according SABIC requirements. In addition, implement SOP’s and/or procedures and provide training to key stakeholders for knowledge transfer.
• Ensure quality and EHSS standards established by the management system are followed. Actively participate in trainings, audits and relevant events, with the ultimate goal of bringing continuous improvements to the site and to the entire management system;
• Key interfaces include Product Engineers, Quality Analysts and Technicians, Operations and Maintenance leaders/technicians, Project Engineers, Process Engineers, Technology & Innovation representatives, along with frequent exposure to site level management. Individual will also interact with other sites around the globe to translate best practices.

What Matters to SABIC

• Graduation in Engineering preferred.

• 3+ years of manufacturing/compounding expertise

• Strong Project Management Skills
• Three years (or more) experience in extrusion processing, and/or plastics manufacturing, and/or plastics molding
• Strong analytical skills and demonstrated ability to collect, organize and analyze large amounts of data
• Solid compounding (extrusion) expertise (3+ years of experience)
• Demonstrated track record of teamwork with all levels.
• Must be a self-starter with the ability to assess situations quickly

Physical Requirements: Full time on site job


Eligibility Requirements

• You must submit your application for employment online to be considered. Please submit your resume using the “Apply Now/Apply” option on this page.
• You must be 18 years or older.
• You should have worked in your current position for at least 18 months and meet the pre-requisites of the position you are applying for.
• You must have unrestricted authorization to work in Brazil.

Work Availability
Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this position. Applicants must be regularly available and willing to work (e.g. Monday – Friday)] during assigned hours of operation and such other hours as the company determines are necessary or desirable to meet business needs.


We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer .We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.