Process R&D Manager

About Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials: You are purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. That’s the spirit of the community you will find at Orbia : where the purpose to advance life around the world drives our global team of over 23,000 every single day. From creating solutions to deliver clean water, secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for. MAIN PURPOSE The Process R&D Manager owns R&D efforts on key programs across our portfolio, supported by a small direct team and a broader team in our global technology centers. This is a key role requiring experience and judgement to manage and deliver multiple simultaneous projects in a matrixed organization. Projects span new process development and design, technology licensing, process piloting, options analysis and techno economic assessments, contract R&D, process improvements and plant troubleshooting. This person would provide thought leadership in process development and unit operations, and work closely with technology, project and operations teams. They would act as an advisor to senior management on key technical questions and choices. A solution oriented mindset, and ability to debate, constructively challenge, and influe