Jobs at Albemarle Corporation

Summer data science internship involving development and project work with JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL Server, VBA, Python/Django, and Git-based Azure DevOps workflows. Interns must work full-time for 12 weeks at a Houston-area site and be pursuing a relevant bachelor's degree with at least a 3.0 GPA. The program includes networking, housing eligibility, benefits, and potential full-time conversion.

The FCC Business Finance Leader serves as the senior finance partner to FCC leadership, owning integrated financial planning, forecasting, P&L oversight, performance management, and decision support. The role evaluates strategic initiatives, investments, and operational decisions through financial modeling and business cases, while identifying opportunities to improve profitable growth, costs, cash generation, and returns. Success requires influencing senior leaders and partnering across commercial, operational, and finance functions.

Leads the enterprise Operations Finance Center of Excellence, partnering with operations and business leaders to improve manufacturing economics, cost performance, inventory and working capital, capital effectiveness, forecasting, and strategic decision-making. The role oversees financial analysis, operational metrics, investment evaluation, governance, and performance improvement across manufacturing operations, with responsibility for translating complex data into actionable recommendations.

Analyzes manufacturing costs, productivity, inventory, working capital, capital expenditures, and operational performance. Builds financial models, scenarios, business cases, dashboards, and recurring reports to support investment and productivity decisions. Partners with operations, supply chain, and finance teams to identify cost drivers, evaluate financial impacts, improve reporting, and communicate actionable insights to stakeholders.

Leads Ketjen’s enterprise Commercial Finance Center of Excellence and partners with business and commercial leaders on profitable growth. Responsibilities include pricing, product and customer profitability, mix analysis, margin improvement, commercial planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, business cases, performance measurement, and strategic decision support. The role also develops finance capabilities, standardizes processes and tools, and translates complex financial data into actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Supports enterprise planning, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, executive reporting, variance analysis, SG&A and working capital analysis. Builds integrated financial models, analyzes performance drivers and risks, prepares leadership presentations, and provides actionable insights. The role also improves FP&A dashboards, reporting processes, data quality, and automation while supporting strategic and ad hoc financial projects.

Provides commercial finance analysis supporting pricing, margin, mix, customer profitability, forecasting, and profitable growth. Builds financial models, scenarios, business cases, dashboards, and recurring reports using Power BI and Excel. Partners with Finance, Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Operations to translate complex data into actionable recommendations, improve reporting accuracy, automate analyses, and strengthen data quality and governance.

Maintains, repairs, rebuilds, installs, and inspects industrial mechanical and rotating equipment, including pumps, gearboxes, conveyors, compressors, and mills. Handles mechanical seals, precision alignment, measurement, lubrication, troubleshooting, and failure root cause analysis. Maintains repair and parts records, interprets mechanical designs and manuals, and uses machine shop equipment and power tools. Requires five or more years of journeyman millwright experience, strong problem-solving skills, and safe in-plant maintenance experience.

Support, administer, secure, and improve OT and industrial IT systems (PCS, PIMS, LIMS, historian, analytics) across manufacturing and lab sites. Perform infrastructure administration, network and endpoint security, virtualization management, backups/disaster recovery, system integrations, Level 1/2 support, documentation, and participate in OT projects and audits.

Lead Ketjen's enterprise application strategy and team, owning the SAP roadmap, application portfolio rationalization, vendor/contract management, BRM model build-out, and delivery standards to support manufacturing, quality, EHS, and business functions.

Manage global income tax compliance and reporting, prepare US and foreign tax returns, lead ASC 740 tax provision calculations, support transfer pricing and intercompany financing, assist audits and tax planning, and improve tax processes while partnering with Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Legal, and external advisors.

Lead architectural design and stewardship of the global HRIS Workday ecosystem, including HCM, Security, Payroll, Prism Analytics, integrations (ADP), learning enablement, implementations, post-production support, governance, and stakeholder consulting across multi-country environments.

Manage full employee lifecycle and HR administration globally, process accurate payroll, ensure compliance, maintain HR records, respond to employee inquiries, support on/offboarding, optimize HR processes, assist audits, and participate in HR projects.

Provide technical support for FCC catalyst sales across Asia by developing proposals and recommendations, performing unit start-up support, monitoring and troubleshooting FCC operations, conducting technical and economic studies, presenting at industry events, and partnering with commercial teams to identify market opportunities and innovations.

Provide HR operational support across U.S. plant locations including onboarding/offboarding, benefits and payroll administration, timekeeping support, HRIS data management, case intake and resolution, compliance and reporting, and cross-functional backup to HRBPs while driving process improvements and consistent service delivery.

Lead global infrastructure and cybersecurity for corporate and plant environments: design and operate networks, cloud, virtualization, backups, endpoint and OT security; transition operations to MSPs; own vendor governance, budgets, incident response, and a permanent security/infrastructure team.

Lead process engineering for pre-projects, detailed engineering, commissioning and start-up for production facilities. Perform process and safety studies, develop PFDs/P&IDs, mass/heat balances, and CSU plans. Act as SME, lead small project teams through early phases, and support project delivery and handover to operations.

Lead the build-out of Ketjen's data, analytics, and AI capability: set strategy and roadmap, design a unified data platform, integrate IT and OT data, pilot and scale AI use cases, establish data governance, and hire a small data engineering/analytics team while partnering with plant and business leaders to deliver measurable value.

Lead analytical and testing strategy for CFT R&T projects, optimize bench-scale testing capacity and methods, ensure reliable performance data, and manage R&T operations and support team in Amsterdam.

Serve as primary customer contact for selected accounts in the refining industry, set and execute account strategies, build stakeholder relationships, lead internal teams to resolve technical and commercial issues, prepare and negotiate proposals and long-term supply agreements, maintain forecasts and CRM records, provide market intelligence, and meet sales volume and profit targets while supporting Ketjen's technical value proposition.