Jobs at Evonik

Drives continuous improvement and optimization of fermentation and downstream manufacturing processes. Analyzes process performance, leads pilot and plant trials, identifies bottlenecks, supports capital projects, facilitates root cause analysis, and improves throughput, yield, efficiency, safety, reliability, and process variability. Collaborates with R&D, production, engineering, quality, and other sites while providing technical leadership and mentoring.

Oversee daily distillation operations in an Acetylenics plant, troubleshoot process issues, analyze yields and energy use, train chemical operators, and improve process safety, reliability, and efficiency. The role develops process monitoring and control systems, coordinates production schedules with supply chain and warehouse teams, leads capital projects and root-cause investigations, supports automation improvements, and provides on-call plant support.

The QA Project Manager serves as the quality interface between customers, Quality Assurance, and project managers. Responsibilities include managing customer quality issues, serving as a GMP quality systems subject matter expert, approving quality-impacting changes and deviations, hosting customer audits, tracking corrective actions, and negotiating quality agreements. The role requires regulatory judgment, broad GMP knowledge, strong communication skills, and 24/7 availability as needed.

Process and validate third-party, intercompany, and employee invoices and claims in SAP. Maintain compliance with corporate procedures, internal controls, audit requirements, and closing timelines. Resolve accounts payable queries, coordinate issue troubleshooting, update procedures, and support continuous process improvement. Collaborate with shared services teams and stakeholders while meeting service-level agreements and relevant shift requirements for the Americas portfolio.

Provides L2 and L3 support for SAP EHS, addressing business requirements and coordinating with stakeholders. Supports Substance Volume Tracking, Marketing Restriction Checks, ALE distribution, and Health and Safety Management. Works with ticketing tools including Regulatory Solution Board, SMAX, and ServiceNow, while coordinating support shifts. The role requires a university or bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, independent issue resolution, willingness to learn areas such as Waste Management, and German language skills as a benefit.

Develop and deploy production-grade AI and machine learning solutions for industrial manufacturing. Own projects from problem definition through operational integration, conduct data-driven optimization, advance ML and LLM-based methods, and collaborate with external partners. Coach employees on AI, establish standards, and advise stakeholders. The role requires Python, Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, cloud AI architectures, process simulation, optimization, and experience scaling ML systems.

Leads financial planning and plant controlling for assigned sites, including budgeting, capital planning, month-end close, product costing, production variance analysis, cost reduction, reporting, compliance, and audit coordination. Partners with site leadership, financial services, business controllers, vendors, and other stakeholders to improve operational performance and decision-making. Provides financial guidance, oversees planning activities, and supports process improvements across plant operations.

Leads Asia Pacific sales and marketing for Evonik’s Active Oxygens business, driving regional revenue, profitability, pricing, growth strategy, customer expansion, sales excellence, and supply-chain collaboration. Manages and develops multinational sales teams, oversees CRM and governance processes, identifies new markets, supports cross-selling, and coordinates customer service and supply-demand planning to achieve commercial and operational targets.

Supports site maintenance and operational activities, troubleshoots equipment, performs emergency repairs and preventive maintenance, and follows established routes, systems, and safety procedures. Organizes work independently, coordinates with support services, assigns short-term tasks, provides technical guidance, develops plans, prepares reports, and ensures safe work practices.

Plans and balances demand and supply for assigned plants, optimizing customer service, inventory, operating costs, and working capital. Manages S&OP and IBP processes, supply allocations, bottleneck prevention, planning KPIs, and improvement measures. Supports supply chain projects, monitors variable costs, and coordinates service complaint resolution with logistics, production, and external providers.

Coordinates plant operations support across ESH compliance, waste disposal, utilities data, safety supplies, PPE, production reporting, maintenance work orders, warehousing documentation, purchasing, audits, training records, and recurring operational reports. The role also supports plant management activities and safety programs while coordinating with department heads and external government agencies on licensing and permitting.

Manage catalyst plant operations, including safety, compliance, production planning, budgeting, workforce resources, supply chain coordination, and continuous improvement. Lead managers across precious metal catalysts, continuous process catalysts, and supply chain functions. Ensure adherence to environmental and quality standards, support hazard analyses, optimize costs and capacity, and foster employee engagement while maintaining reliable operations and customer satisfaction.

Supports digital transformation and continuous improvement of chemical production through Smart Operations technologies. Implements, monitors, maintains, and improves digital applications; develops and executes process engineering studies and projects; manages technical changes, MOC activities, documentation, training, and project teams. Collaborates with production, R&D, site management, and global Smart Operations teams to pilot technologies, optimize performance, improve sustainability, and ensure compliance in methionine plant operations.

Leads the Houston Technical Team supporting Evonik’s Pasadena, Deer Park, and Bayport plants. Oversees technical personnel, staffing, training, administration, contractors, vendors, compliance, maintenance and reliability programs, predictive and preventive maintenance, TPM initiatives, mechanical integrity, turnaround activities, and small capital projects. Drives reliability improvements, workflow standardization, cost optimization, technical support coordination, and team development across multiple sites.

Manages technical operations for a chemical production unit, including capital projects, process engineering, maintenance, budgets, contractors, energy optimization, plant documentation, regulatory compliance, commissioning, and operational handover. Coordinates internal and external technical teams, manages contracts and service-level agreements, improves plant reliability and capacity, and supports change management and knowledge systems.

Consolidates, transforms, and analyzes procurement data; develops process applications, dashboards, analyses, and key performance indicators; defines analytics requirements with procurement stakeholders; presents insights clearly; and provides training and consulting on data literacy and digitization.

Maintain, design, program, troubleshoot and manage electrical systems up to 66kV (substations, GIS, transformers, generators, UPS, MCC) for a 24/7 chemical site. Provide technical support, training, maintenance planning, cost estimates, project engineering, and act as the focal point for electrical issues and on-call duties.

Leads facility, design, and process engineering teams within a pharmaceutical CDMO. Responsibilities include engineering strategy, team development, operational excellence, asset lifecycle and maintenance planning, capital investment, equipment design, project delivery, compliance with GMP and ISPE requirements, and continuous improvement of engineering systems and documentation.

Plant Engineer responsible for improving chemical plant availability, safety, reliability, quality, throughput, and cost performance. Supports capital and equipment projects, process optimization, debottlenecking, audits, work orders, management of change, risk assessments, contractor coordination, and continuous improvement initiatives. Collaborates with operations, maintenance, technology teams, and internal and external resources while supporting EHS and environmental compliance.

Leads the global Legal & Compliance function for an international chemicals company. Advises executive management on commercial, corporate, contractual, compliance, and business-law matters; oversees trade compliance, litigation, arbitration, insurance risk management, corporate governance, and the Board Office. Manages a team of approximately six employees and external legal advisors worldwide while developing compliance and legal frameworks.