About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.  

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognise unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life. 

 

 

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Project Engineer!

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

 

What Will Be Your Environment:

The Huddersfield Plant is situated in Yorkshire, with <50 employees

Our site specialises in the manufacture of additives for Lubrizol Performance Coatings. Working to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO-14001:2015 standards, the plant specializes in manufacturing both aqueous and solvent based resins, polymers, dispersants and adhesion promoters for the metals and coatings industries.

Working with our customers, we produce essential ingredients in the formulation of organic and inorganic pigments used in the paints and coatings, printing inks, plastics, wood finishing and metal coatings industries. Our products give the end user extremely efficient particle dispersion, particle size stability and provide the highest level of appearance and performance. The products manufactured at Huddersfield are widely used across the world.

 

What You'll Do:

As a Project Engineer, you will help the plant meet its business objectives and improve its overall performance by managing and executing various projects. By effectively leading project teams and ensuring the delivery of final installations, equipment, and assets to the plant, and ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required specifications.

You will increase operational efficiency and productivity of the plant by identifying areas where improvements can be made, implementing projects that increase plant efficiency and productivity, leading to cost savings and improved output.

Enhance safety and compliance of the plant, ensuring that projects are executed safely and comply with relevant regulations and standards, reducing the risk of accidents and incidents.

You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life.

 

What We're Looking For:

The following accountabilities are identified for the role of Project Engineer

Create collaborative relationships across multiple functions including Engineering, Manufacturing- & Procurement as well as with business unit leaders. Project management: Develop plan for each project/scope, monitor progress and prepare scheduled/necessary updates of activities to relevant stakeholders. Participating in the evaluation and selection of equipment and contractors. Working with third-party contractors to develop viable time scales and working practices. Resolving any problems with the team, plans and budget to ensure that the project flows smoothly. Identifying potential problems with projects, leading the team into developing solutions and ensuring that they are implemented. Planning and scheduling of resources required to successfully deliver and support projects. Serve as contact during Distributed Control System related projects. Partners with experts to assess DeltaV and other control system hardware and licensing needs for projects.

 

Skills That Make a Difference:

BS Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical field, or relevant (5+ years) of proven project execution experience in the chemical process industry. Experience with Project Execution, installation and construction process, project management and continuous improvement experience. Active communication and collaboration with various departments, leadership, problem-solving, adaptability and attention to detail. Good computer skills: Office365, ERP SAP software, Project management Software. Experience with DCS (Emerson Delta V) or other similar plant control system. Excellent verbal and written communication skills; along with the ability to negotiate. First-hand experience delivering capital projects.

 

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

We offer competitive compensation, and comprehensive benefits including:

Discretionary bonus Bupa Healthcare Wellbeing support 26.5 days holiday (plus bank holidays) Competitive Pension Scheme Share Incentive Plan Free Car Parking

 

 

 

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Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their ethnic origin, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic.