Job Overview:

Provides technology leadership in Paraxylene technologies. The individuals knowledge and experience advances an area of specialty, changes a technology direction or creates a new technology, which results in a significant innovation for the company. Instrumental in influencing technical or technology direction on a corporate-wide basis.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Serves as technical advisor or mentor to our clients or to any division of McDermott - Lummus Technology
• Leads technology innovations from concept through commercialization
• Demonstrates leadership performance in area of expertise on a corporate-wide basis
• Influences change or direction that significantly expands the companys market share or leads to a new technology
• Interacts with customers and industry groups and brings extensive external recognition to self and McDermott Lummus Technology
• Ideas resulting from individuals skills have generated new business opportunities and most-favored company status
• Responsible for technical content and identification of technical risk for all proposals within a technology
• Participates in helping to establish commercial strategy in specific technology areas
• Provides support to Business Development Managers via development of presentations and preparation of papers
• Reviews and approves critical project design documents for projects falling within their respective technology area
• Uses diverse approaches to develop criteria for making high quality decisions in the absence of a definitive framework
• Responsible for technology design guides, tools and technology design basis for all aspects of the Basic Engineering Package
• Uses, promotes and advances the principles of Quality as an integral part of the work process

Basic Qualifications:

• BSChE degree required, MSChE degree preferred
• 15 years of relevant experience preferred
• Ability to travel at least 40% of the time, both domestically and internationally
• Recognized as a strong industry leader with meaningful client contacts
• Recognized internally and externally by peers and others for knowledge and advancement of technology in their area of expertise
• Requires in-depth knowledge of competing technologies
• Demonstrated field experience and trouble-shooting skills required
• Holds a track record of success in creative solutions to critical problems in area of specialty or across technologies
• Demonstrated leadership in cross functional teams
• Publishing/presentation/patent record leading to external recognition.
• Has assumed a leadership or speaker role in a technical forum or professional society
• Working knowledge of process and systems design tools and procedures
• Performs special assignments as required

Company Overview:

McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutionsfrom the wellhead to the storage tankto transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today.