Process Control Technician

At Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today.


We’re Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you’ll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands.


Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World.


It’s Better with Bakelite.


Process Control Technician: The Impact You’ll Have On The Organization and World
• In this role you will focused on the safety, efficiency, and repeatability of our resin manufacturing to generate quality results.
• You will be responsible for the creation, monitoring, and improvement of the batch processes at the assigned facility.
• You will be the 1st call for plant batching or recipe issues while processing a batch.
• You will have stewardship of the batch recipe from Start to Finish and is constantly looking to improve the efficiency, repeatability, and automation of our batches to reduce operator intervention and errors.

It's Better with Bakelite: Our Commitment Back to You
You’ll Help Shape Our Future. As a Bakelite associate, you’re part of a diverse, global population creating the next generation of the company and we expect you to put your fingerprint on it.
• We Champion Our Associates. At Bakelite, you don’t just climb the career ladder – you pave your personal path through continued learning and development.
• Together, We Will Protect the Planet. From our processes to our products, we are focusing on the opportunities that both grow our profitability as a company, and improve and protect the planet.
• Safety is a Core Value. At Bakelite, safety is a 24/7 mindset. We are all safe today to ensure we are able to show up tomorrow – for our families and friends, for each other and for our communities.
• We Care. Plain and simple, we care about our associates. From the top on down, we place a high value on our culture and the associate experience. We offer competitive compensation, robust benefits and support our associates every step of their career.

Life in Taylorsville: Located in Southeast Mississippi, Taylorsville is just an hour outside Jackson and Hattiesburg.
• Taylorsville is home to a variety of industries, including lumber, manufacturing, agriculture and finance.
• Our Taylorsville team has strong ties to the local community and participates in the town’s annual Halloween event, Farmers Market and holiday tree decorating event.
• Nearby attractions include the Bienville National Forest and several picturesque state parks and lakes for camping, canoeing, hunting and fishing.
• Taylorsville is 30 minutes from Laurel, Mississippi – the setting of HGTV’s “Home Town” and location of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art. Be sure to also check out the Hattiesburg Zoo and Mississippi Armed Forces Museum in nearby Hattiesburg.
• With the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport just an hour away, you can easily hop a flight to anywhere in the world.
• Nearby educational institutions include Jones College and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

What Does a Typical Day Look Like? Here are your primary responsibilities:
• Strong process knowledge of the batch reactions, the equipment, and the safety aspects of the system.
• Become proficient in the ability to program the associated batching software Experion Batch, PLC etc.
• Ability to audit other sites recipes for logical and safety sequencing and look for possible issues as a validation process.
• Strong Data mining, historical trending capabilities to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong interpersonal skills to develop working relationships with both operations and Maintenance.
• Strong Computer skills with the ability to utilize software tools like MES, Excel, SAP, etc.
• Flexibility to monitor batch sequencing in real time which may require weekend or backshift monitoring.
• Strong Team Leader/Member – The Process Control Technician will be a key member of the site technical teams as well and facility siting for new products etc.
• The ideal Process Control Technician has hand on expertise in the manufacturing of various resin types or strong technical background in the science of resin manufacturing. Hands on experience of resin manufacturing is an essential.
New product development
• The Process Control Technician will work with R&D as the product formulation is developed and ensure that the proposed formulation, temperatures, cooks and controls are reasonable and aligned with the facilities capability. Items like vacuum pull down, exotherm rate, material