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Chemical Process Engineer roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under USCIS standards, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering or a closely related field. Employers file the LCA with DOL before petitioning USCIS, and most large chemical, refining, and materials companies have active H-1B visa filing histories.
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At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living while reducing emissions. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
What role you will play in our team
The Manufacturing Chemical Process Engineer role is responsible for developing and deploying process and physical chemistry tools, models, and expertise throughout the technology development pipeline, from early-stage research to commercial design. This can involve the use of thermodynamics, molecular transport, and kinetic modeling, as a basis for conversion and separation processes.
What you will do
This position serves as a technical leader by:
- Mentoring less experienced engineers on design practices, unit health monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Providing support of abnormal and non-routine operations, including unit Turnarounds
- Aiding in the development of long term vision and strategy for product line improvements
- Organizing and design plant testing and product trials
- Influencing others and drive toward solutions without direct authority
- Working in a team environment with other engineering disciplines, operations, and mechanical personnel and interface with corporate technology support
- Interfacing with 3rd party vendors (cost optimizations as well as developing/driving solutions)
- Leading/support incident investigations as technical lead
- Providing support for developing and implementing various capital projects to drive margin or mitigate SHE risk
- Providing assistance in the field during plant startups, shutdowns or upsets
- Demonstrating courage of conviction to drive healthy tension for both business team and corporate technology support to promote fit for purpose outcome
About you
Skills and Qualifications:
- B.S. Chemical Engineering
- 3-10 years of experience in refining and/or chemicals manufacturing roles
Preferred Qualifications/ Experience:
- Process design exposure
- Familiarity with advanced control strategies/optimization software
- Risk assessment and HAZOP experience
- Understanding of safety relief limits (modelling and evaluations)
- Understanding of modelling software (PROII, ASPEN, etc)
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you:
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com
Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
Stay connected with us
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EEO Statement
ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.
Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
Exxon Mobil Corporation has numerous affiliates, many with names that include ExxonMobil, Exxon, Esso and Mobil. For convenience and simplicity, those terms and terms like corporation, company, our, we and its are sometimes used as abbreviated references to specific affiliates or affiliate groups. Abbreviated references describing global or regional operational organizations and global or regional business lines are also sometimes used for convenience and simplicity. Similarly, ExxonMobil has business relationships with thousands of customers, suppliers, governments, and others. For convenience and simplicity, words like venture, joint venture, partnership, co-venturer, and partner are used to indicate business relationships involving common activities and interests, and those words may not indicate precise legal relationships.
Job ID: 85214
About us
At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living while reducing emissions. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
What role you will play in our team
The Manufacturing Chemical Process Engineer role is responsible for developing and deploying process and physical chemistry tools, models, and expertise throughout the technology development pipeline, from early-stage research to commercial design. This can involve the use of thermodynamics, molecular transport, and kinetic modeling, as a basis for conversion and separation processes.
What you will do
This position serves as a technical leader by:
- Mentoring less experienced engineers on design practices, unit health monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Providing support of abnormal and non-routine operations, including unit Turnarounds
- Aiding in the development of long term vision and strategy for product line improvements
- Organizing and design plant testing and product trials
- Influencing others and drive toward solutions without direct authority
- Working in a team environment with other engineering disciplines, operations, and mechanical personnel and interface with corporate technology support
- Interfacing with 3rd party vendors (cost optimizations as well as developing/driving solutions)
- Leading/support incident investigations as technical lead
- Providing support for developing and implementing various capital projects to drive margin or mitigate SHE risk
- Providing assistance in the field during plant startups, shutdowns or upsets
- Demonstrating courage of conviction to drive healthy tension for both business team and corporate technology support to promote fit for purpose outcome
About you
Skills and Qualifications:
- B.S. Chemical Engineering
- 3-10 years of experience in refining and/or chemicals manufacturing roles
Preferred Qualifications/ Experience:
- Process design exposure
- Familiarity with advanced control strategies/optimization software
- Risk assessment and HAZOP experience
- Understanding of safety relief limits (modelling and evaluations)
- Understanding of modelling software (PROII, ASPEN, etc)
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you:
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com
Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
Stay connected with us
Learn more at our website
Follow us on LinkedIN and Instagram
Like us on Facebook
Subscribe our channel at YouTube
EEO Statement
ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.
Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
Exxon Mobil Corporation has numerous affiliates, many with names that include ExxonMobil, Exxon, Esso and Mobil. For convenience and simplicity, those terms and terms like corporation, company, our, we and its are sometimes used as abbreviated references to specific affiliates or affiliate groups. Abbreviated references describing global or regional operational organizations and global or regional business lines are also sometimes used for convenience and simplicity. Similarly, ExxonMobil has business relationships with thousands of customers, suppliers, governments, and others. For convenience and simplicity, words like venture, joint venture, partnership, co-venturer, and partner are used to indicate business relationships involving common activities and interests, and those words may not indicate precise legal relationships.
Job ID: 85214
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Chemical Process Engineer
Match your degree to the role
USCIS scrutinizes specialty occupation claims closely for process engineering roles. Your degree must be in chemical engineering, chemical technology, or a directly related field. A general engineering degree paired with a mismatched job description triggers RFEs.
Search LCA filings by occupation code
Use Migrate Mate to filter employers by H-1B LCA filing history for chemical process engineering roles. This surfaces companies that have actually sponsored the position before, not just those with general H-1B programs.
Target industries with consistent sponsorship volume
Petrochemical refining, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor fabrication employers file LCAs for process engineers regularly. Prioritize companies with active production facilities over corporate headquarters, where engineering headcount is highest.
Verify prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Run your offered title and work location through the OFLC Wage Search before signing. Your employer must certify the offered wage meets or exceeds the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and geographic area or the LCA will be rejected.
Understand cap-exempt employer pathways
Positions at qualifying nonprofit research organizations or government research entities are cap-exempt, meaning no lottery. Some chemical engineers working on federally funded projects at national labs or university-affiliated research centers qualify and can skip the April registration window entirely.
Prepare a specialty occupation evidence package early
Compile your degree transcripts, PE license if applicable, and a role description that explicitly ties required duties to chemical engineering theory. Employers filing for process engineers in generalist-sounding titles benefit from a strong job duty memo attached to the I-129.
H-1B Visa Chemical Process Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Chemical Process Engineer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. Chemical Process Engineer positions qualify under the H-1B specialty occupation definition because the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering or a directly related field. USCIS evaluates the actual job duties, not just the title, so your employer's job description should reference engineering principles, process design, or reaction kinetics to support the petition.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Chemical Process Engineers?
Employers in petrochemical refining, specialty chemicals, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and semiconductor fabrication file LCAs for process engineering roles most frequently. To find companies with verified H-1B filing history for this specific occupation, search Migrate Mate, which filters by DOL Labor Condition Application data so you can see which employers have actually sponsored the role before.
How does the DOL prevailing wage requirement affect Chemical Process Engineer offers?
Your employer must certify on the LCA that your offered wage meets or exceeds the DOL prevailing wage for your job title, SOC code, and work location. You can verify this independently using the OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer. If your salary falls below the prevailing wage level, the LCA certification will be denied and the H-1B petition can't proceed.
Can a Chemical Process Engineer change employers while on H-1B?
Yes, through H-1B portability under AC21. Once your current H-1B petition has been approved and you've worked for the sponsoring employer, a new employer can file an H-1B transfer petition and you can start working for them as soon as that petition is received by USCIS. The new role must also qualify as a specialty occupation in chemical engineering.
Does a Professional Engineer license strengthen an H-1B petition for this role?
A PE license isn't required for H-1B approval, but it substantially strengthens the specialty occupation argument. USCIS looks for evidence that the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific discipline. A PE license signals that the employer holds the position to a licensed engineering standard, which supports the specialty occupation classification and can reduce RFE risk.