Industrial

Delivering value all along the manufacturing chain: from the arrival of raw materials to the delivery of finished products.

Shanghai in China, Paulinia / São Paulo in Brazil, Fribourg in Germany, Brussels in Belgium or Lyon in France: employees from Solvay’s industrial family, located at production sites around the world, work in different positions, for example :

Production: constant improvement in the performance and competitiveness of our production units in terms of costs, output, use of equipment, maintenance, technical assistance, quality, inventory management, delivery and service.
Engineering: design, build, and start up of new production units around the world and enhancement of the competitiveness of existing processes and plant.
Health-Safety-Environment: safety in the workplace, process safety, protection of the environment and of the health of all individuals in contact with our products.

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Our main positions:

Manufacturing requires a high level of performance. Our engineers, open to the latest techniques, have either a chemical or general engineering background.

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Production Engineer

Your missions:

Manage a production unit on an industrial site.
Focus on continuous progress by optimizing deadlines, quality, productivity and manufacturing costs.
Take part in improvement programs (including Six Sigma and World Class Manufacturing).
Ensure that the production complies with HSE requirements.
Manage a team, ensuring the development of everyone’s professional skills

Your academic background:

Generalist or specialist school of engineering in chemistry or chemical engineering, with initial experience in industry.

Maintenance Engineer

Your missions:

Manage the maintenance of installations in compliance with the requirements of Quality, Health, Safety, and the Environment and budgetary constraints.
Adapt maintenance organization and processes in order to optimize the costs and quality of maintenance operations.
Help to resolve major technical problems, submit technical progress plans and provide a technological intelligence.
Manage sub-contracting work while guaranteeing the application of safety rules.

Your academic background:

Generalist or specialist school of engineering in chemistry.

Process Engineer on an industrial site

Your missions:

Monitor the performance of one or several production units (output, plant efficiency, modeling, material and energy reports) within a technical assistance team assigned to production.
Recommend and introduce new operating conditions (production unit improvement and capacity extension studies, proportioning of new plant, choice of equipment, monitoring of installation and start-up).

Your academic background:

School of chemical engineering or process engineering, with initial industrial experience.

Engineer specializing in process engineering

Your missions:

Work on capital spending projects for the creation of new production units or for the improvement of existing facilities.
Design and create industrial installations that have been optimized in terms of safety, costs and deadlines.
Take part in the different phases of the project.
Monitor the completion of the unit, prepare its start-up and play an active role in the process.

Your academic background:

School of chemical engineering or process engineering.

Site Health, Safety & Environment Engineer

Your missions:

Supervise, direct and coordinate HSE activities.
Appraise and manage environmental risk in order to guarantee personnel safety, occupational health and environmental protection.
Monitor all HSE incidents and indicators.
Raise employee awareness to ensure that HSE measures are applied at every level of the organization.
Act as a link in dealings with the public authorities and official bodies in matters related to HSE.

Your academic background:

School of engineering (specialized or non-specialized)/university, with initial industrial experience.