Technical service engineer

Elessent Clean Technologies is a global leader in process technologies to drive sustainability and carbon neutrality in the metal, fertilizer, chemical, and oil refining industries with an unwavering commitment to customer support. We provide extensive global expertise across our portfolio of offerings in key applications – MECS® sulfuric acid production, STRATCO® alkylation, BELCO® wet scrubbing, and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing. Offering critical process equipment, products, technology, and services, we enable an array of industrial markets, including phosphate fertilizer, non-ferrous metals, oil refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals, to minimize their environmental impact and optimize productivity. We are dedicated to helping our customers produce high-quality products used in everyday life in the safest, most environmentally sound way possible, with a vision to make the world a better place by creating clean alternatives to traditional industrial processes.

Technical Services Process Engineer – STRATCO® Alkylation

Position Summary

Support STRATCO® sulfuric acid alkylation customers throughout North and South America by providing process engineering, troubleshooting, startups, reliability improvements, training, and technical consulting. The successful candidate will become a trusted technical advisor while partnering with Business Development to identify growth opportunities, equipment upgrades, and technical service opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Chemical Engineering required.
• 5–7 years of refinery or petrochemical experience.
• Minimum 2–3 years as a Process Engineer supporting a STRATCO® sulfuric acid alkylation unit.
• Strong understanding of alkylation, fractionation, refrigeration, hydraulics, process control, and refinery operations.
• Outstanding written, verbal, presentation and public speaking skills.
• Willingness to travel approximately 40–60% domestically and internationally.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical support, troubleshooting, optimization, startup and turnaround support.
• Develop operating recommendations, technical reports and best practices.
• Develop and deliver customer operator and engineer training programs.
• Support reliability, maintenance, inspections and revamps.
• Partner with Sales to identify aftermarket equipment, reliability improvements and upgrade opportunities.
• Present technical papers and represent Elessent before customers and industry organizations.
• Develop innovative technical solutions, new service offerings and future STRATCO® technology improvements.
• Develop working knowledge of BELCO® wet scrubbing and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing technologies and progressively support those businesses.

What Success Looks Like

• Recognized as a trusted STRATCO® technical expert.
• Delivers world-class customer training.
• Identifies growth opportunities while supporting Business Development.
• Builds working knowledge of BELCO® and IsoTherming®.
• Contributes innovative ideas that improve technology, services and customer reliability.

Recruitment Fraud Notice

Elessent does not ask applicants to pay fees, purchase equipment, deposit checks, or provide banking information as part of the recruiting process. Official recruiting communications will come from an Elessent email address or through our authorized recruiting partners. Applicants should be cautious of individuals or websites posing as Elessent recruiters, especially if they request payment, personal financial information, or urgent action outside of our normal hiring process. To verify a job opportunity, please review current openings on our official careers page or contact HR at HR@elessentct.com.

Positions are open to candidates authorized to work in the United States for any employer. Elessent Clean Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.