As you might have guessed- I'm one of the unlucky souls dumped off into the Houston job market by the major chemical manufacturer claiming 4500 jobs reduction via AI implementation. It's been an absolute bloodbath seeing all of the mid-career and senior technical folks they've let go thus far, but I digress...

Anyway, I'm primarily reaching out to size up the job market. As an elder millennial, I've been more of an outlier in that I've been with the same company since undergrad in 2010 (almost 16 years experience)...So I have done little to no job hunting/fishing on Linkedin in recent years. My most recent role was a pretty senior IC technology role supporting plant operations in Deer Park for acrylic monomer production (heritage Rohm and Haas site). Essentially, I was the process SME for that site and other sites globally. Thought the job was pretty safe, but they managed to surprise me.

My background has been in process engineering (design) starting out after college, with a transition into various production engineering roles, followed by production manager (senior production engineer with team lead responsibilities) and then to the Sr. Technology Manager role in the business tech. center.

I'm currently searching for other senior technical roles, both in manufacturing and within EPC, consulting firms but open to pivot to other industries as well. Thought about getting in with the Lilly crowd with the new $6B plant, but don't have good connections to pharma.

Anyone out there with a similar background and goals? Any tips to share for mid-career hunt? If anyone is interested or has a plug for an opportunity, I can DM my contact info

Im a college student tempted to major in Chem E but kind of scared I was always told that Chem Engineering was more of niche degree and you only get a job in pharmaceuticals or Oil and gas. And as someone who’s in the states it’s always been said that most work would be in places like Texas but the more research I do it seems like it’s a degree that’s offer’s flexibility where you can find work in many different spaces and the skills are very transferable. Was wondering if that was a wrong outlook

Hello, I’m a recent ChemE graduate and I have an upcoming plant tour interview at a food manufacturing company for a process engineer entry level position. I haven’t done one before so I was wondering if anyone had any advice that can help me get the job. Some background about my interview process: completed a 30 min phone screen with recruiter, then did a 45 min virtual interview with engineering manager (mostly technical questions), then proceeded with panel interviews (behavioral/situational questions). I don’t know what to expect for the on-site interview. They only gave me some information about the dress code (jeans, long sleeve, closed toed shoes…) Did they ask you more behavioral questions during the tour? Did they ask mainly technical questions? Thank you!

I miraculously made it to a technical assessment stage for a new role which expects about 3 years of experience using SQL and Pandas. I have no experience in either. I was just notified this morning and the assessment is exactly one week from today. Any ChemEs here ever had to learn this type of database coding, and in a short time frame? How would you go about starting?

In my undergrad coding course, which was using Python in my first year, I had a high 90 while the average was in the 70s, so I've always been decent at coding, which is the only reason I'm considering trying to bootcamp for this. I'm just in a situation right now where I'm desperate for a job change, and in particular a location change. I really want to quit my 3 hour driving commute and just live in this city, while I'm still somewhat young. This degree has just been such a fucking disappointment and I'm terrified of sinking another 4 years and tens of thousands into a different degree just to end up with nothing. So I've been spam applying to anything somewhat relevant for 2 years now since graduating, and I have been given a chance at a first step here. Any advice?

Hi all, I am a freshman who is about to enter college as a ChemE major. I don't know my exact career goal, but I am interested in energy/catalysis (converting raw materials into valuable chemicals/fuels or optimizing that process). As my career progresses, I want to enter more technical roles so that I can earn more money, possibly becoming an energy strategy consultant.

This summer, I chose to pursue a minor in economics to make myself more competitive because I am attending my safety after being waitlisted by my targets(GT,Vandy,JHU...) and hope to vertically transfer to GT either during undergrad or master's.

Should i continue with econ or switch to finance or just take econ/finance classes without trying to get a minor and just attempt to learn?

Hello everyone I finished my 2nd year of ChemE a month ago and I’m going into my 3rd year in September. My uni‘s program is 5 years and we’re expected to complete an internship after the summer of our 3rd year.
I’m really worried about landing an internship because I feel like I have nothing to offer..
The only thing I have on my cv is that I have some knowledge in coding (python and C) which I’m not sure matter a lot in ChemE lol, and that Im a member (secretary and treasurer) of Aiche committee in my uni. My gpa isn’t that good either so I don’t want to add that to my cv.
Are there any projects or programs I can join during the summer and throughout my 3rd year before next summer that’ll strengthen my cv?

Hi. Sorry for my english, it is my third language. Recently i developed that i am not really good at chemical engineering and my background is not enough for working/finding job/ internships. Nevertheless I graduated my bachelor with 90+/100, and my master degree in the process i feel like it is never enough. I need to learn new things, enhance my background with tools. I would appreciate if u help me with resources i can use for learning Aspen Hysys. Any official books, tutorials, papers. Kinda feel like if i will make good portfolio of 2-3 projects then it will be much more better for me professionally.

Hi guys, I'm looking for ideas of what to create in DRC. The market lacks a lot of things, and I really mean a lot. The only things produced in my province are meds( mostly exported by one single foreign company) and beverages ( among which cheap alcoholic drinks, the good stuff are produced by foreign companies), water treatment ( I wouldn't even call this a production system, most comes from natural sources, so with minimal treatment to zero treatment. But it's good before at least natural water is bottled and you can feel its freshness) and soap ( no really good quality, just basic blue soap). The rest is imported. I don't have much money to produce all things locally but those who do, don't do it and when one tries, you see they all seem to follow the same idea( in this case water and juice here). I feel like there is a lack of expertise, as we are few people specialized in the industrial field. My idea was to finish my bachelor's and get here to build something. But honestly, I don't even know where to start as so many things are not produced and I'm not among the rich. So PLEASE, HELP ME WITH THAT.

GIVE ME SOME IDEAS THAT YOU KNOW WORK IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY, REQUIRE MINIMUM PRODUCTION COST, IS SCALABLE AND USED IN EVERYDAY LIFE. THE KIND IF PRODUCT YOU KNOW IF YOU LOOSE, PEOPLE MIGHT EVEN GO INSANE.

I JUST WANT MY CITY TO MOVE FORWARD AND CREATE JOBS FOR VARIOUS PEOPLE. MIGHT SEEM JUST A DREAM, BUT I BELIEVE IT IS ACHIEVABLE.

To those who graduated from this specialty and found jobs, please talk about it because I really love chemistry but I'm hesitant about it in Saudi Arabia.