Technical Team Lead, PP​/Utilities

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Job Title: PP/Utilities Technical Team Lead

Job Location: Chocolate Bayou Works in Alvin, TX

Offer Range: $160,000 - $200,000 (commensurate with experience)

The Olefins & Polymers USA division of INEOS is one of the largest producers of olefins and polyolefins in North America. From its manufacturing locations at Chocolate Bayou and the Battleground Manufacturing Complex, it is a merchant marketer of butadiene, ethylene, polypropylene and high-density polyethylene with annual revenue of over $4B.

The Chocolate Bayou Site is located in southeastern Texas about 40 miles south of Houston and consists of two Olefins units that produce approximately 4bn pounds per year of ethylene, 2 Polypropylene units that produce approximately 1B pounds per year of polypropylene, and the Light Ends storage & transfer facilities at Stratton Ridge.

The Technical Team Lead provides technical, strategic, and people leadership to drive durable economic value through optimization, debottlenecking, and long‑term technology planning. This role is accountable for translating data, operational insight, and technology expertise into clear strategic direction and decision‑ready recommendations that improve yield, energy efficiency, throughput, and asset utilization.

The Technical Team Lead ensures that value is systematically identified, rigorously quantified, and effectively institutionalized, such that improvements are repeatable, governed, and sustained over time—not dependent on individual effort. This role bridges short‑term operational realities and long‑term asset strategy, aligning optimization priorities, technology roadmaps, and capital investment decisions with broader business objectives.

Acting as the steward of the site’s long‑range performance outlook, the Technical Team Lead partners closely with Capital Projects, Operations, and Business Teams, to ensure the plant consistently operates closer to its economic and technical limits, without compromising safety, reliability, or compliance. Success is measured by sustained improvement in asset economics and decision quality, even when the team is not directly engaged in the day‑to‑day.

The Technical Team Lead reports to the Site Technical Manager. This position is part of the technical team at the Chocolate Bayou Works and provides technical support to two Polypropylene Units, a Utilities Unit and a Cogeneration facility.

The position is accountable for understanding and putting into practice the INEOS 20 Principles. Additionally, the Technical Team Lead has a special responsibility to cascade the understanding of these principles through their team.

• Lead, coach, and develop the technical team.
• Establish performance expectations and accountability.
• Promote disciplined execution and technical rigor.
• Identify and prioritize optimization and debottlenecking opportunities.
• Own and govern opportunity registers.
• Drive sustained economic improvement.

• Develop and maintain multi‑year technology roadmaps.
• Steward analytical models and technical studies.

• Own CAPEX investment plans for optimization initiatives.
• Support FEL development and capital justifications.

• Interface with manufacturing, asset, and project teams.
• Translate technical analysis into decision‑ready insight.

• Sustained improvement in asset economics.
• High‑quality strategic and optimization studies.

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Typically 10 to 15 years relevant experience in chemical, petrochemical, or large‑scale industrial manufacturing environments.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring technical professionals strongly preferred.

• Advanced understanding of process technology, unit operations, and asset constraints.
• Strong capability in…