Rotational Program Participant – Manufacturing & Engineering Rotational

Job Description

Evonik Rotation Program – Early Career Engineers | Evonik

The Tone:
This is a full-time Early Career Engineers role at Evonik, requiring mobility and relocation within North America and/or internationally for the duration of the two-year program. As a 33,000-person organization, Evonik shapes solutions to make our world more sustainable and life healthier, more vibrant, and more comfortable. This role is crucial for supporting process optimization, capital projects, and operational excellence initiatives across the company’s manufacturing and engineering functions, contributing to improved performance and efficiency.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career Engineers
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Mobile (NA and/or internationally)
• Pay: $85000–$90000 yearly
• Mission: Support process optimization, capital projects, and operational excellence initiatives across manufacturing and engineering functions.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office applications

What You’ll Actually Do
• Technical Support: Provide technical and methodological assistance to production and operations areas to increase productivity or reliability of processes and equipment.
• Project Evaluation: Support the evaluation of concepts for expansions, including small and mid-sized Capital Investment Projects, quality increases, and production availability improvements.
• Engineering Development: Provide technical support in basic engineering, detail engineering, process development, and scale-up for customer projects or production processes.
• Documentation & Compliance: Prepare basic engineering and design documentation on capital and customer projects, ensuring compliance with all applicable standards.
• Rotational Assignments: Act in assigned site roles, which may include process, project, maintenance, reliability engineering, or support roles within subject matter expert teams like Energy & Utilities or RD&I.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Early-Career with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering curriculum, to be received in Spring 2027.
• Experience: Begin employment in July 2027 as part of the Evonik Rotation Program cohort, must be mobile and willing to relocate within North America and/or internationally for two years, and be authorized to work in the US without restriction or need for future sponsorship.
• Skills: Knowledge of engineering fundamentals, standard industry practices, and regulatory requirements; excellent written, verbal, and organizational skills; ability to interact and communicate effectively with all organizational levels; excel in a project team environment with high adaptiveness; demonstrated ability to think critically and solve problems; proficiency in Microsoft Office applications; highly organized and efficient in time management.
• Bonus: Previous work experiences such as Co-Op or internships in the chemical industry preferred.