Internship Downstream Process Development Scientist Jobs in Romeoville, IL

Are you passionate about driving process technology excellence in downstream refining?

Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and partnering with customers to optimize refining operations?

Partnering with the Best

Baker Hughes is a global energy technology leader delivering advanced chemical and process solutions that enhance refining performance, reliability, and safety. Our Downstream Chemicals team supports customers across the industry by deploying innovative process technologies, delivering highquality service, and ensuring operational excellence. We are committed to customer success, continuous improvement, and delivering measurable value across the refining value chain.

Fueling Your Passion

As a Sr. Advisor within Downstream Chemicals Service Delivery, you will provide advanced technical support across assigned districts-including Canada, the East Coast, and Great Lakes regions. You will serve as a field subject matter expert (SME) for Process technologies and applications, supporting customers in optimizing major crude process units, chemical treatment programs, and operational performance. Your leadership will influence job planning, execution, analysis, and continuous improvement, ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant service delivery.

As a Sr. Advisor, you will be responsible for:

• Leading Process technical support efforts for existing and new downstream refining accounts across assigned districts, ensuring flawless execution from preplanning through postjob analysis.
• Collaborating closely with Service Delivery, Sales, and Technology teams to design technical job programs, including risk mitigation and performance optimization strategies.
• Providing ondemand technical support for Process applications, including recommendations for new or enhanced chemical treatment programs.
• Building strong, trusting relationships with key customer stakeholders at both the corporate and field levels.
• Identifying opportunities and collaborating with field teams to drive technical projects, innovative solutions, and valuecreation initiatives.
• Participating in industry forums, conferences, and technical committees as a representative of Baker Hughes.
• Conducting annual technical audits and health checks for assigned accounts to ensure compliance and operational integrity.
• Supporting Operations, Technology, and Manufacturing teams with Process chemistry portfolio needs, including deployment and field validation of new technologies.
• Delivering technical presentations and training sessions for customers, field personnel, and internal teams.
• Performing job hazard and incident potential assessments to ensure safe application of Process technologies.
• Supporting field incident reviews and participating in investigations as required to ensure full endtoend analysis and corrective actions.
• Leading special projects, product line initiatives, and other responsibilities assigned by the business.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering; Chemical Engineering preferred.
• Have a minimum of 15+ years of downstream refining experience, including 10+ years in refining Process applications.
• Possess strong knowledge of crude process units, related chemical technologies, digital tools, and applicable industry standards.
• Have 10+ years of field, operations, or application support experience within refining process technologies.
• Be capable of working independently while collaborating effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to audiences at all experience levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Be willing to travel up to 50% based on customer and operational needs.
• Provide technical mentorship and support for developing team members.
• Be available for oncall support outside of normal business hours.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead, plan, coordinate, and deliver projects and programs successfully.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong technical leadership in downstream process technologies and chemical applications.
• Experience engaging customers at strategic and operational levels to influence decisionmaking.
• Proven ability to guide field personnel, mentor technical teams, and support talent development.
• High proficiency in process diagnostics, application troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to convey technical content to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while working across multiregional teams.
• Structured, selfdriven approach with strong analytical and problemsolving capabilities.

Work in a Way That Works for You

This is a customerfocused technical leadership role requiring flexibility in travel, oncall support, and field engagement. Work schedules may be adjusted to align with customer operations, outage planning, and technical service needs.

Working with Us

At Baker Hughes, our people are the core of our success. We foster an inclusive, collaborative, and safetyfocused environment where innovation, continuous learning, and career growth are encouraged.

Working for You

We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package that supports your wellbeing and longterm development, including:

• Comprehensive health and wellness programs
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Financial and retirement benefits
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Additional voluntary benefits

Candidates for this role (office-based/ hybrid/ remote) must be located in or near the locations displayed above. The pay range/scale displayed above represents Baker Hughes' good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum for this position at the time of this posting and applies to the possible locations for this position. Baker Hughes will issue a non-bias competitive offer; the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hires, full-time salaries in some U.S. locations, not including equity or benefits. Where an applicant will ultimately fall within the pay range/scale depends on a variety of factors, including, for example, geographic work location, skillset, qualifications, internal pay alignment, level of experience, and demonstrated performance over time. Please keep in mind that the range stated above is the full base salary range for the role and does not include other forms of compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the pay range for this position during the hiring process.

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.