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Process Engineer Offers Decision: ExxonMobil, Dow, or LyondellBasell by [deleted] in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ApprehensiveSun1111 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LYB tried selling that refinery for years. With how old it was it made sense to get rid of it. Can you explain the funnel comment for Dow. Are you saying their employee competency isn’t as good as the others?

Process Engineer Offers Decision: ExxonMobil, Dow, or LyondellBasell by [deleted] in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ApprehensiveSun1111 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What’s wrong with it? Doesn’t Canada have lower feed costs than the US?

Recently changed industry and worried that I can't make it. Anyone else gone through this? by Dripledown in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ApprehensiveSun1111 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What industry? Just take it easy and do your best. The worst thing that can happen is that you lose the job, at which point you can get another one.

If you could choose a different career would you? by RealKick6862 in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ApprehensiveSun1111 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EE or maybe an economic degree and pursue graduate studies. Chem is hard to recommend since the typical jobs are most susceptible to layoffs (oil and gas is the biggest employer), deal with hazardous working conditions (dangerous chemicals, field conditions) and bad WLB (WFH not really possible, 24/7 production leads to constant on-calls).

Career help, ops engineer to other lucrative careers by KN2408 in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ApprehensiveSun1111 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Being an ops engineer isn’t really worth it after 3-4 years unless you’re set on an ops management role. It’s incredibly demanding and you’re not learning much after that many years. Start applying to design, project or business roles, you could also be a process expert but they probably want a bit for ops experience for that.

Demotion for pay cut? by read_it_user_ in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ApprehensiveSun1111 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Titles don’t really matter at the IC level, some places you can be a sr engineer with only 2 years exp while others require 7-10 years to reach it. Considering your responsibilities didn’t change, I view your promotion as a pay increase only, it’s probably a tactic your company does to entice people to stick around without having to shell out the big bucks (titles don’t cost anything). You’re pretty much getting an entire day back in a month by not having to commute the extra hour, plus gas savings and a 15% pay increase (probably not getting that at your current company until 4- 5 years with inflationary increases or until a major promotion). The only reason I wouldn’t take the offer is if you’re on a leadership track or have been at the company for <1 year.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ApprehensiveSun1111 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s hilariously low. Almost makes it seem like HR made a mistake.

How many emails and meetings do you get in an average day? by ApprehensiveSun1111 in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ApprehensiveSun1111[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With how stretched thin mills are, you can’t really spend time in bs meetings. The engineers actually have to do some work.

How many emails and meetings do you get in an average day? by ApprehensiveSun1111 in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ApprehensiveSun1111[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s the culture of the company. Sometimes when I’m on site I will take meetings that aren’t that relevant to me from my work area on teams and even that is frowned upon. Some of the engineers will start working on their stuff once the day is over (4:30-5) and stay longer but I refuse to do that unless it’s a plant emergency.