Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company’s and customers’ futures?

If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.

Ketjen is hiring for a Senior Technical Service Engineer. This position is hybrid and located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In this position, the Senior Technical Service Engineer HPC is the primary technical point of contact for selected key customers. You will support your colleagues, sales and business departments with your technical knowledge; you will assist them to identify business opportunities as well as maintain the quality and consistency of all technical information to customers. You will establish relations with refineries to provide solutions to their hydroprocessing needs, to discuss and review technical proposals and solve technical problems.

What You Will Do

• Work together with technical sales in the preparation and execution of negotiation plans

• Assist the business in identifying technical needs and in defining marketing strategy

• Coach junior colleagues in the department

• Prepare and present technical offers to our customers

• Review technical proposals of colleagues and recommendations for HPC catalyst applications to existing and potential customers

• Maintain technical quality and consistency of all technical information to customers

• Perform technical services, like unit monitoring and troubleshooting

What You Bring

Required Experience and Education:

• At least 15 years of experience in at least one of the following disciplines: Research & Development, Refinery (operation and / or technical support) related to operation in Hydroprocessing units, Technical Sales, including experience in troubleshooting and fulfilling an internal expert role

• Academic working and thinking level (preferably Chemical Technology)

• Proven leadership / people management skills

• Proficient English skills, both written and spoken. Other language skills are welcome

• A strong mix of technical and commercial experience is required to be successful

Qualities an ideal candidate will possess:

• Proven ability to deliver results

• Excellent influencing, presentation and collaboration skills

• A positive drive for initiating and executing improvement plans

• An inquiring, flexible and service minded attitude

• Team focus through an active contribution to a joint result

• Analytical and solution-oriented thinking ability

• Change Agent that communicates effectively at all levels

• Self-motivating and self-organizing

Benefits of joining Ketjen

If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. At Ketjen, our core values shape who we are and how we work with our customers. Through demonstrated curiosity, care, collaboration, humility, accountability, and integrity, we deliver safe and reliable solutions that increase production performance and business value across the globe. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, empowerment, excitement, and energy.

Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the POTENTIAL of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.

Benefits of Joining Ketjen

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive benefits package

• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the POTENTIAL of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.