Chemical Engineer / Chemist with Oil Refinery Laboratory Experience (EU)

Trindent Consulting; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Trindent Consulting is expanding its refinery expert team across Europe, seeking a Chemical Engineer and/or Chemist with hydrocarbon lab experience. You will analyze crude oil, refined products and intermediates to ensure quality, safety, efficiency, and regulatory compliance in refinery operations.

This highly client-facing role involves travel to client sites across Europe, with occasional assignments in North America.

Qualifications

• Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Petroleum Engineering.
• Proven experience in an oil refinery laboratory.
• Interest in a consulting role, not a laboratory role, working on multiple client projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist refinery clients to optimize refining processes, systems and behaviours to reduce operational inefficiencies.
• Review samples to determine product quality giveaway.
• Ensure compliance with ASTM / ISO standards on sampling and analysis.
• Laboratory results help confirm product streams meet specifications before shipment.

Skills

Oil refinery lab experience

Travel willingness

Client-facing

Education

Degree in Chemistry or Chemical/ Petroleum Engineering

Job description

ABOUT TRINDENT

Trindent Consulting is a global management consulting firm that specializes in technical augmentation in the energy sector, specifically downstream oil & gas and large energy users. We are a profit improvement firm, first and foremost.

We’ve helped over 100 clients achieve significant financial benefits that yield between 500–1500% return-on-investment within the 1st year – and we’ve done that without capital investments or software changes of any kind.

Established in 2008, Trindent Consulting has quickly garnered a reputation as a firm that Makes It Happen™. We are ranked as one of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Canadian Business and GROWTH 500 for 7 years in a row and named one of the Fastest-Growing Consulting Firms by Consulting Magazine in 2015 through 2020.

Trindent Consulting specializes in process engineering & optimization. Without capital investment we create actionable ways to sustainably increase refinery margins by 2–3%.

Refineries are extraordinarily complex businesses. Trindent specializes in several ultra-high value niches within refineries where tens of millions of dollars in performance improvement may be captured in the short-term.

Underpinned by data analytics, industry know-how, and technical experience; Trindent has implemented improvement engagements in over 40 refineries globally.

BUSINESS EXPANSION

Our practice is expanding. As part of this growth, we are building a strong pipeline of experienced refinery professionals to support client engagements across North America. While opportunities will depend on client demand, we are actively engaging with qualified engineers who can contribute within one of Trindent’s four core downstream services. We are gearing up for 20–25% growth and we hope you will join us on this journey!

This is a highly client-facing role based around project delivery. Consultants must be available to travel approximately 80% of the time, typically Monday to Friday, to client sites across Europe and occasionally Canada and the US.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We have opportunities for a Chemical Engineer &/or Chemist with experience in a “hydrocarbon lab”. The ideal candidate will be experienced in analysing crude oil, refined products, and intermediate streams to ensure quality, safety, efficiency, and regulatory compliance across refinery operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Our consultants assist Refinery clients optimize refining processes, systems and behaviours to reduce operational inefficiencies.

You will be involved in reviewing samples to determine:

• Accurate assessment of product quality giveaway
• Compliance with ATSM / ISO standards on both sampling and analysis

Laboratory results help our team confirm that product streams meet required specifications before shipment to client customers. They ensure that refined products, such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, LPG both comply with local specifications and minimise quality / value giveaway.

KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Proven experience in an oil refinery laboratory.

Interest in a consulting role, not a laboratory role, that will see you work on multiple client projects.

QUALIFICATIONS

Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Petroleum Engineering.

WORK LOCATION & FLEXIBILITY

Client-facing consulting role supporting engagements across Europe and occasionally North America.

Approximately 80% travel is required, typically Monday to Friday, according to project and client needs.

Candidates must be able to travel regularly and work onsite at refinery and client locations throughout Europe and occasionally Canada and the US.

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN

Work on complex, high-value refinery improvement projects within one or more of Trindent’s four core services.

Join a fast-growing, dynamic consulting environment with structured opportunities to build subject-matter expertise.

Gain exposure to diverse refinery clients, operating challenges and project teams.

We measure our success by our clients’ results.

Join us and Make It Happen!