Your Job
We are looking for someone who is eager to develop their commercial awareness and really add value to the KTS commercial team. Our ideal candidate is a chemical engineering undergraduate who is looking to move into a Market Based Commercial role and willing to learn and try new skills, but also to challenge our thinking. Having signed many new licenses in the last 2 years, KTS is recognized as being a leading global licensing business.
Our Team
Koch Technology Solutions (KTS) is a technology development and licensing business within KOCH Industries.
What You Will Do
- Sales: Understand the current approach on value proposition and pricing; develop project economics and new pricing models for maximising value capture.
- Market Analysis: Understand supply – demand - capacity utilisation – trade – headwinds - tailwinds in the Polyester Value Chain.
- Marketing & Branding: Understand the vehicles available for Marketing and Branding and what is being done currently; develop strategies for marketing.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- University student looking to undertake this placement as part of the year in industry .
- Studying a degree in Chemical Engineering.
- Strong analytical skills, with excellent attention to detail.
- The ability to learn quickly, be driven, confident and self-motivated.
- Strong numerical skills, with a good understanding of general software packages.
- Koch Technology Solutions are recruiting several placement students within the organisation and will support them in finding local accommodation.
- We welcome applications from a wide range of students, including international students.
What Do We Offer
- The company is based at the Wilton Centre, a large science and business park ten minutes from Middlesbrough with an on-site restaurant, gym, and landscaped grounds including a lake. Majority of the staff are working on site, and this would be the expectation for the placement students.
- Other benefits include 25 days paid holiday and flexible working hours.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Who We Are
Koch Technology Solutions (KTS), is a world leading licensor of technology for the Polyester, Nylon and Polyurethane value chains and is expanding into other technology sectors. The newest additions to our technology range include extracting lithium from brine (Direct Lithium Extraction) to support the growing need for energy storage, and advanced recycling of mixed waste PET bottles and containers into raw materials for high-quality food-grade applications thereby closing the recycling loop on plastics.
KTS has over 40 years of licensing experience and deploys a global team of technical experts to design, commission, and support license plants. We are seeking to recruit a Principal Process Engineer to join our team. Candidates should be interested in working on process engineering design packages, developing new technologies and gaining operations/commissioning experience. Experience in any of the technologies that KTS currently Licenses is not essential.
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