Chemical Engineer

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive. That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry.

Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible. In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure—sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry.

Chemours is seeking a Manufacturing Technology Chemical Engineer to join our growing Technology team! This position will report directly to the Manufacturing Technology Manager at our New Johnsonville, TN location.

This Chemical Engineer will provide support to manufacturing operations to maintain production performance, including continuous improvement activities, technical equipment expertise, process troubleshooting, and leading problem solving on equipment or quality issues. The Chemical Engineer works closely with the Technology Manager and Operations to upgrade products, processes, and equipment by implementing modifications ranging from incremental daily improvements to technology game changes.

• Provide engineering support to the manufacturing area operations including daily monitoring of the process, interaction with operating technicians, troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Lead and/or participate in Process Safety Management (PSM) related activities such as Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) reviews, Pre-Start Up Safety Reviews (PSSR), Process Technology, and other technical and safety reviews.
• Provide engineering expertise on reactors, heat, and mass transfer, mixing systems, filtration, solids separation, natural gas burners and drying technologies, bulk solids handling, etc.
• Initiate Management of Change (MOC's) to the process to improve the safety, quality, environment, and/or cost of the production unit.
• Work on continuous improvement activities to improve area performance.
• Lead Cost Reduction improvement initiatives from ideation through completion and validation of savings.
• Perform tests on the process to improve the safety, quality, environment, and/or cost of the production unit.
• Assist capital project front-end loading to ensure equipment specified meets process requirements at the highest uptime and lowest life cycle cost. Provide process support to all project phases.
• Update, review and approve process technology documents such as Operating Procedures, P&’s and Standard Operating Conditions to meet PSM and Corporate standards.
• Mentoring and assisting in operations training.

• Bachelor’s degree from an ABET accredited institution in Chemical Engineering.
• 3+ years of manufacturing or industrial experience.
• Demonstrated ability to apply technical knowledge to diagnose, troubleshoot, and solve problems.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and manage multiple, complex, time-sensitive projects.
• Experience working in a team environment with high degree of initiative and self-motivation and flexibility to monitor and move projects forward quickly and safely.
• Hands‑on experience supporting process troubleshooting in the field and hands on work with Technicians as requested.

• Working knowledge of any of the following: data analytics and statistics using tools like 6‑Sigma, Design of Experiments, Minitab, SEEQ, Power BI, MS Excel, statistical process control for quality management, Root Cause Analysis, and process engineering modeling tools (Aspen, Fathom, etc.)
• Excellent communication and engagement…