Job Description:
Role Overview:
As a Responsible Mechanical Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and cost effective operation of key production assets at our Wilton facility. You will act as the mechanical authority for the site, combining deep technical expertise with strong asset integrity, maintenance, and engineering governance.
This is a highly visible role within a COMAH top tier chemical environment, offering significant responsibility, technical ownership, and the opportunity to influence plant reliability, safety, and long term asset strategy.
Do you think you’re the right fit for this opportunity? Apply today!
Role Responsibilities:
As a Responsible Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Pressure systems, ensuring full compliance with legal, company, and industry standards.
Define and maintain maintenance strategies and routines for all mechanical equipment, balancing plant integrity, reliability, and cost.
Serve as Design Authority for mechanical aspects of CAPEX and site projects, providing technical guidance to project and reliability teams.
Develop detailed work scopes, specifications, and worklists in support of major overhauls and shutdowns.
Own and maintain functional technical data within the site technical registry.
Provide functional leadership to engineering, maintenance, and contractor resources within the production area.
Build and maintain asset life plans, identifying repair, refurbishment, and replacement needs over the short and long term.
Optimize spares strategy and inventory, ensuring availability while managing cost and working capital.
Drive mechanical engineering improvement plans, embedding industry best practice across maintenance and reliability activities.
Manage functional elements of the engineering and maintenance budget, aligned with business and site objectives.
Experience and Competencies:
We are looking for experienced candidates with:
Degree in Mechanical Engineering (or related discipline), or equivalent extensive hands on experience in industrial/mechanical engineering.
Significant experience (typically 15+ years) within chemical, petrochemical, or COMAH regulated environments.
Strong knowledge of:
Mechanical equipment and rotating machinery
Pressure systems, including an awareness of Fitness for Service assessments and defect management
Maintenance and reliability engineering best practices
Proven experience working with SAP or similar maintenance systems.
Track record of contributing to CAPEX projects, site improvements, and plant reliability initiatives.
Membership (or eligibility) of a relevant professional engineering body is expected.
What we are looking for:
Strong technical authority with the confidence to make and defend sound engineering decisions.
Structured, analytical mindset with a focus on risk management and long‑term asset health.
Comfortable working autonomously while collaborating across global and site teams.
High personal standards regarding EHS, compliance, and operational discipline.
Clear communicator, able to engage effectively with managers, technicians, and contractors.
What next?
If you would like to join an innovative, collaborative and multicultural team, please apply now. Your application will be forwarded to a Talent Acquisition Partner, who will strive to get back to you as soon as they can. We understand that applying for a new job is a big decision and we will work hard to keep you updated and support you along the way.
About Us:
At Huntsman, we pride ourselves on being a people-oriented organization.
Our family-like atmosphere is cultivated by our diverse groups of team members around the world.
We welcome the talent, experience and fresh ideas that employees at all stages of their careers, from interns to seasoned professionals, bring to Huntsman.
In return, we offer you the opportunity to become an integral part of a dynamic, industry-leading company, where safety and ethics always come first.
Additional Locations:
Skills Required
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or extensive hands-on experience in industrial/mechanical engineering
- Significant experience (typically 15+ years) within chemical, petrochemical, or COMAH regulated environments
- Strong knowledge of mechanical equipment and rotating machinery
- Awareness of Fitness for Service assessments and defect management
- Proven experience working with SAP or similar maintenance systems
- Track record of contributing to CAPEX projects and plant reliability initiatives
- Membership (or eligibility) of a relevant professional engineering body
Huntsman Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huntsman Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Huntsman Corporation.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage (medical/dental/vision) and EAP are consistently described as solid, with multiple plan options cited. Strong health benefits are frequently highlighted as a relative strength in the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer contributions and equity through a stock incentive plan, with legacy pension arrangements for some groups. Retirement features are repeatedly referenced as a positive component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and floating days are described as good to very good in many roles. Vacation accrual is said to increase with seniority in some locations.
Huntsman Corporation Insights
What We Do
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2019 revenues of approximately $7 billion. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our four distinct business divisions. We view our customers as valued partners. That’s why we believe in a collaborative approach to client relations and work directly with our customers to develop new chemical components that meet their unique needs. Our dedication to our customers is matched only by our dedication to the environment. As part of our commitment to bettering the industry, we strive to operate safe, clean, efficient facilities in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. This means actively seeking opportunities to leverage our resources to assist those in need around the world. It’s all part of our growth-driven approach, which reflects the spirit of free enterprise and is centered on creating mutual benefits for customers, employees, suppliers and the communities where we work.
