Heterogeneous Catalyst Research Scientist - Dhahran, المملكة العربية السعودية - Whitecrow

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About our client:

Our Client operates in the Oil and Energy industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in Saudi Arabia. It has its branches spread to more than 50 countries, providing employment to more than 68,500 people all over the world. They fall under the Fortune 500 Companies. They are one of the world's largest oil producers. They are constantly growing by creating new technologies through its Research and Development efforts and branch into new business lines through Investments and Acquisitions.

Responsibilities:

• The candidate will lead catalyst development projects and/or tasks including idea generation, general project/task planning, catalyst design and evaluation; catalyst experimentation/screening; data interpretation, reporting and presentations. The candidate is expected to carry out the following core activities.
• Planning, coordinating and leading a research project or task related to catalyst development and evaluation for refining, petrochemicals, or sustainability applications.
• Setting-up and overseeing operations of laboratories, conducting catalyst testing experiments and relevant DOE while ensuring safe maintenance of equipment and high-quality data with effective mass balance closure.
• Make decisions based on sound scientific/technical and business data through rigorous analysis and based on experience.
• Effectively lead multiple concurrent projects/tasks through establishing workstreams/work processes.
• Perform statistical data analysis on catalyst performance results and leverage existing visualization software to manage/maintain a catalyst performance results database for high-throughput testing
• Supervise technicians to maintain the lab facilities and catalyst development tools.
• Utilize state-of-the-art High Throughput Research (HTR) methodologies and others (such as combinatorial techniques) as appropriate to advance catalytic technologies and leading experimentation/operation and results reporting.
• Utilize advanced and routine catalyst characterization tools/instruments to gain insights about structure-activity relationships and feed into superior catalyst design and optimization.
• Support lab activities and develop safe protocols which enhance the safety culture.
• Develop and maintain all appropriate/relevant laboratory records, analytical methods, author technical documents, protocols, and reports.
• Contribute to a safe, efficient, and effective lab environment with high-degree of accountability.
• Ensure timely resolution of technical/scientific challenges through collaboration with others
• Organizing team for specific project and task and leading internal and cross-functional project reviews.
• Contribute technically his/her expertise to other projects.
• Contribute to R&DC's catalyst development knowledge base. Present research results in internal seminars, technical reports or external publications.

Requirements:

• A Master degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering (or equivalent) and a PhD degree is preferred.
• The candidate should have 10 years of minimum relevant work experience in related fields to this job position.
• The candidate should have worked with High Throughput Testing Equipment for catalysis applications. Catalysis-specific certifications, Project Management Professional certification, Professional Engineer certification are preferred where available.