Lead Asset Engineer

As a Lead Asset Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and cost effective operation of key production assets at our Wilton facility. You will act as the mechanical authority for the site, combining deep technical expertise with strong asset integrity, maintenance, and engineering governance. This is a highly visible role within a COMAH top tier chemical environment, offering significant responsibility, technical ownership, and the opportunity to influence plant reliability, safety, and long term asset strategy.

Role Responsibilities:

• Pressure systems, ensuring full compliance with legal, company, and industry standards.
• Define and maintain maintenance strategies and routines for all mechanical equipment, balancing plant integrity, reliability, and cost.
• Serve as Design Authority for mechanical aspects of CAPEX and site projects, providing technical guidance to project and reliability teams.
• Develop detailed work scopes, specifications, and worklists in support of major overhauls and shutdowns.
• Own and maintain functional technical data within the site technical registry.
• Provide functional leadership to engineering, maintenance, and contractor resources within the production area.
• Build and maintain asset life plans, identifying repair, refurbishment, and replacement needs over the short and long term.
• Optimize spares strategy and inventory, ensuring availability while managing cost and working capital.
• Drive mechanical engineering improvement plans, embedding industry best practice across maintenance and reliability activities.
• Manage functional elements of the engineering and maintenance budget, aligned with business and site objectives.

Experience and Competencies:

We are looking for experienced candidates with:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering (or related discipline), or equivalent extensive hands on experience in industrial/mechanical engineering.
• Significant experience (typically 15+ years) within chemical, petrochemical, or COMAH regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical equipment and rotating machinery.
• Pressure systems, including an awareness of Fitness for Service assessments and defect management.
• Maintenance and reliability engineering best practices.
• Proven experience working with SAP or similar maintenance systems.
• Track record of contributing to CAPEX projects, site improvements, and plant reliability initiatives.
• Membership (or eligibility) of a relevant professional engineering body is expected.

What we are looking for:

• Strong technical authority with the confidence to make and defend sound engineering decisions.
• Structured, analytical mindset with a focus on risk management and long‑term asset health.
• Comfortable working autonomously while collaborating across global and site teams.
• High personal standards regarding EHS, compliance, and operational discipline.
• Clear communicator, able to engage effectively with managers, technicians, and contractors.

If you would like to join an innovative, collaborative and multicultural team, please apply now. Your application will be forwarded to a Talent Acquisition Partner, who will strive to get back to you as soon as they can. We understand that applying for a new job is a big decision and we will work hard to keep you updated and support you along the way.

At Huntsman, we pride ourselves on being a people-oriented organization. Our family-like atmosphere is cultivated by our diverse groups of team members around the world. We welcome the talent, experience and fresh ideas that employees at all stages of their careers, from interns to seasoned professionals, bring to Huntsman. In return, we offer you the opportunity to become an integral part of a dynamic, industry-leading company, where safety and ethics always come first.