MOLYKOTE Specialty Lubricants Application Engineering

7433 Specialty Elect Materials Comercio de Produtos Quimicos; Brasil; Hybrid; BRL 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

DuPont seeks an innovative Engineer to support MOLYKOTE Specialty Lubricants for the South America region. The role focuses on understanding wear and friction challenges and translating them into lubricant and tribology solutions.

You will work with regional business development, channel partners, and global R&D teams to deliver products addressing performance and cost in use. Responsibilities include training customers, leading cross-functional teams, and developing new products.

Qualifications

• BS in engineering or hard science; Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical preferred.
• Experience in lubrication or tribology essential.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Integrity, creativity, initiative and teamwork are required.
• Flexibility for hybrid work and travel.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers to identify application needs and translate to test design or product solution.
• Deliver product and technology training to customers and channel partners.
• Lead or participate in engineering or product commercialization teams.
• Support development of new and modified products to meet customer needs.
• Learn industry standards and test methods relevant to lubricants.
• Develop expertise with specialty test equipment for lubricants with global collaboration.
• Explore properties of low friction coatings and advanced lubricants to create value-added solutions.
• Participate in cross-functional teams to meet priorities.
• Travel to customers and within South America for training and meetings (~50%).

Skills

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Tribology knowledge

Design of experiments

Education

B.S. in Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering

Tools

Lubricant test equipment

Job description

At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont.

The MOLYKOTE® Specialty Lubricants team is currently seeking an innovative Engineer with the desire to work within an industrial business that demands a strong customer and solutions focus across the South America region.

The person in this role will be responsible for understanding customer wear and friction challenges and translate into innovative specialty lubricant and tribology solutions to meet application performance and cost in use requirements. The candidate will collaborate closely with the regional business development professional and have responsibility to work independently with channel partners and customers. The role includes active engagement with Americas and Global R&D teams to develop new products to meet current and future needs. The candidate must be motivated to deliver positive results for the company, ability to work on multiple priorities in parallel, and have a strong desire to apply critical thinking through the scientific method to address issues and challenges that have a direct impact to the customer and business.

Main responsibilities:

• Collaboration with customer, ranging from design engineers to end customer to identify application needs and translate into test design or product solution.
• Deliver product and technology training to customers and channel partners.
• Lead or participate as a core member of an engineering or product commercialization team.
• Support the development of new and modified products to meet the customer and market needs.
• Includes learning and understanding of various industry standards, and test methods.
• Develop expertise with specialty test equipment specific to lubricants – includes collaboration with global tribologist.
• Explore the unique properties of low friction coatings, and advanced lubricants to create value-added, differentiated solutions for our customers.
• Participate in multi-function team including research & development, business development, marketing, supply chain, and others to deliver on team and business priorities.
• Travel to customers and within the South America region for training, meetings, etc. (~ 50%)

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Engineering or hard science – Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering preferred
• Certified Lubricating Grease Specialist (CLGS), Certified Lubrication Specialist (CLS) is a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills are necessary.
• Relevant experience in lubrication or tribology.
• Demonstrated high level of competency of mechanical systems, knowledge of lubricating materials and basics of tribology.
• Demonstrated high level of integrity, thoroughness, creativity, flexibility, initiative, problem solving skill and productive collaborative teamwork is a must.
• Six Sigma Green Belt experience is a plus
• Fluent in Portuguese and English.
• Spanish is a plus.
• Availability for hybrid work in Barueri, SP
• Availability for travel 50-60% of the time

DuPont offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package.

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DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our Accessibility Page for Contact Information.