Mechanical Engineer (Rotational Program)

Summary

Westlake is a company that develops products intended to enhance people's lives and operates across the Performance and Essential Materials business segment. The Mechanical Engineer will participate in a 3–5 year rotational leadership development program, gaining experience across engineering and business functions while delivering solutions, improving processes, and developing leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• You will work in roles and handle projects under the guidance of a mentor who is assigned to your designated area of focus
• The assignments are designed to develop you as a leader and empower you to challenge convention and engineer creative solutions that enable product and process innovation
• Through high performance teamwork, our engineers deliver solutions that allow us to manufacture and supply essential products that enhance the daily lives of people around the globe
• Each rotation will provide valuable insight into various business processes while immersing you in local day-to-day operations
• You will have firsthand experience dealing with real-world challenges, allowing for personal growth and further development as an individual and essential member of the Westlake team
• Delivering breakthrough solutions
• Monitoring and developing improvements to current processes to yield cost savings, quality improvement and/or overall increase efficiency
• Developing your leadership skills
• Continuously striving for highest level of performance
• Doing everything with a safety mindset at the forefront of your work
• Adding value for our customers

Skills

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 0-2 years of relevant work experience
• Minimum 3.0 GPA
• Willing to rotate to different US locations every 12-18 months for a total of 3 - 5 years
• Ability and willingness to obtain a Transportation Worker's Identification Card (TWIC )
• Strong team building, leadership and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to touch, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Additionally, this position must make general decisions requiring judgement and perform activities requiring sustained concentration
• Travel including air travel or auto travel may occasionally be required

Qualifications

Must Haves

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 0-2 years of relevant work experience
• Minimum 3.0 GPA
• Willing to rotate to different US locations every 12-18 months for a total of 3 - 5 years
• Ability and willingness to obtain a Transportation Worker's Identification Card (TWIC )
• Strong team building, leadership and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to touch, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Additionally, this position must make general decisions requiring judgement and perform activities requiring sustained concentration
• Travel including air travel or auto travel may occasionally be required

Benefits

• A 3–5 year rotational program offering the chance to explore various aspects of the Westlake business
• Invaluable on-the-job experience
• Leadership and technical training
• Work on exciting projects
• Work under the guidance of a mentor who is assigned to your designated area of focus
• The assignments are designed to develop you as a leader
• Each rotation will provide valuable insight into various business processes
• Personal growth and further development
• Exciting post program opportunities await you