Active Materials Scientist

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By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company’s ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry.

The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I-45), at the intersection of I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston.

The campus was constructed to the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. Its design incorporates extensive research into best practices in building and workplace design through extensive benchmarking of the world’s top academic, research, and corporate facilities.

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What role you will play in our team

By joining the Materials & Catalysis Research Capability at ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, you will be an integral technical contributor to novel material synthesis, characterization, and testing for separations & catalysis applications.

Spring, Texas

What you will do

Develop and apply synthesis, characterization, and evaluation techniques for novel materials used in separations or catalytic applications across ExxonMobil Business Divisions; Upstream Company, Product Solutions Company, and Low Carbon Solutions.

Guide material development to targeted applications through the build-up of structure-property correlations. Includes the discovery of novel materials, utilization of advanced characterization techniques, and ability to run and guide experimental units to inform transport or kinetic performance. 

Work collaboratively within cross-discipline teams with expertise in materials development, experimentation, modeling, process engineering, and scale-up activities. Active participation with the internal and external scientific community is expected.
 

About You

Skills and Qualifications 

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Material Science & Engineering or related discipline with relevant thesis work.
• Organic/inorganic materials synthesis skills, particularly with zeolites, metal oxides, or organic framework systems.
• Advanced materials characterization skills, including state-of-the-art in-situ and ex-situ techniques.
• Demonstrated capacity for critical and creative thinking is essential. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Lab or pilot scale experimentation for separations or catalysis processes. Competency in related areas of solid state chemistry, computational chemistry, electrochemistry, materials formulation, or process chemistry.
• A track record of strong external publications and presentations, and a desire to continue to interact with the external technical community.
   

Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
 
We offer you:

• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.

 
More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com
 
Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law

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