What we offer
At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed.
Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special!
Find out more about the many benefits we offer:
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• Lead, coach, and train a team of technicians, fostering a culture of safety, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Establish priorities and allocate resources across polymer processing activities, ensuring alignment with business, R&D, application development, and commercial objectives. Travel to customer locations as and when needed.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and interpretation of polymer processing trials involving injection molding, extrusion, compounding, and related conversion technologies. Maintain accurate, complete, and organized records of processing labs activities, experimental data, and technical findings.
• Drive process development and optimization initiatives to support new product introduction, application validation, scale-up, external tolling and commercialization efforts. Ensure compliance with Evonik Intellectual Property (IP) processes and proper documentation of innovations and inventions.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex processing challenges, leading root cause investigations and implementation of sustainable corrective actions.
• Develop and execute operational excellence strategies to improve equipment utilization, laboratory productivity, service levels, and cost effectiveness.
• Champion safety, quality, and regulatory compliance by ensuring adherence to applicable standards, risk management processes, and company procedures. Champion a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with all applicable safety programs and procedures. Apply and promote key safety processes including Design Hazard Review (DHR), Management of Change (MOC), Safe Work Permit (SWP), Hazard Identification/isolation and Risk Assessment
• Manage laboratory assets, capital investments, maintenance strategies, and technology upgrades to ensure reliable and future-ready processing capabilities.
• Establish performance culture, monitor key business and operational indicators, and communicate progress, opportunities, and risks to leadership.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Polymer/Plastics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of industrial experience in polymer processing, including injection molding, extrusion, compounding, or related plastics manufacturing technologies.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams, developing talent, and driving high-performance organizational culture.
• Strong expertise in process development, troubleshooting, process optimization, and scale-up from laboratory to commercial production.
• Proven ability to apply Design of Experiments (DOE), statistical analysis, and data-driven methodologies to solve complex technical challenges.
• Experience managing multiple projects, priorities, budgets, and resources in a fast-paced technical environment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and build customer relationships.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety leadership, risk management, and operational excellence.
• Working knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or equivalent operational excellence frameworks.
• Experience with commercialization, customer-facing technical support, manufacturing support, and international collaboration in a matrix organization is preferred.
The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.
Your Application
To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at www.evonik.com/en/careers.html.
Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.
Your Talent Acquisition Manager:
Justin Connelly [C]Company is
Evonik CorporationSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Polymer or Plastics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline
- Advanced degree
- At least 5 years of industrial experience in polymer processing, including injection molding, extrusion, compounding, or related plastics manufacturing technologies
- Experience leading technical teams, developing talent, and building a high-performance organizational culture
- Expertise in process development, troubleshooting, process optimization, and laboratory-to-commercial scale-up
- Experience applying Design of Experiments, statistical analysis, and data-driven methodologies
- Experience managing multiple projects, priorities, budgets, and resources in a technical environment
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including influencing cross-functional teams and building customer relationships
- Commitment to safety leadership, risk management, and operational excellence
- Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or equivalent continuous improvement methodologies
- Experience with commercialization, customer-facing technical support, manufacturing support, and international collaboration in a matrix organization
Evonik Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Evonik and has not been reviewed or approved by Evonik.
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Healthcare Strength — The U.S. package consistently includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, supported by HSA/FSA and an Employee Assistance Program. Benefits information highlights robust health coverage alongside base pay.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) and references to legacy pension and retiree medical for eligible groups, indicating depth beyond a basic plan. Company materials and postings emphasize retirement support as part of a comprehensive package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, and parental leave are listed across recent U.S. postings. These time‑off programs appear as core elements of the package.
Evonik Insights
What We Do
Evonik is one of the world’s leading specialty chemicals companies. While we don’t produce electric cars, aircraft, medications or 3D printers, Evonik is part and parcel of these and many other end products. That’s because we contribute the small things that make a big difference. We make electric car batteries perform better, aircraft greener, medications more effective and 3D printers more efficient. In short: We think beyond the bounds of chemistry to make the world a better place. Today and tomorrow. We are an international group with a workforce of over 32,000 people spread across more than one hundred locations. Our daily work is shaped by global concerns, such as sustainability, diversity and digitalization. In all our business decisions, we take the present and future generations into consideration. After all, being ready for tomorrow is our business. Interested in joining our global team? Our wide range of opportunities extends from creative and innovative research through international management all the way to production. Whether you’re studying, starting out in your career or a seasoned professional, come help us make the world a better place. For more information about careers at Evonik, go to: www.careers.evonik.com. #HumanChemistry Find our netiquette on: www.evonik.com/netiquette
