Europe Energy and Waste Engineer

Job Description

Posted Sunday 11 January 2026 at 05:00

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.

Europe Energy and Waste Engineer

(all genders)

What does a typical day look like?

These are your main tasks:

The Europe Energy and Waste Engineer supports EU Sites in identifying, developing and implementing energy efficiency, utilities optimization, and waste reduction initiatives, with the objective of reducing costs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and aligning with the company's sustainability strategy. The role conducts energy audits, identifies cost and GHG reduction opportunities, and provides technical guidance for sustainability programs. Through collaboration with operation teams ensures that practical solutions are implemented to improve environmental performance and reduce operating costs.

What exciting challenges will you take on in this role?

• Develop energy and utilities improvement programs, making sure implementation at site.
• Develop the EU Waste Reduction Program, aligning initiatives across sites and ensuring measurable reduction in disposal costs and environmental impact (zero waste initiatives).
• Collaborate with other Engineering Pillars to integrate energy‑efficient technologies, and waste reduction / elimination initiatives into capital projects and broader EU Engineering priorities
• Conduct site audits to identify cost reduction and sustainability improvement opportunities. Rank opportunities and develop multi-year site programs to implement projects and initiatives
• Support ISO50001 implementation and EU sustainability goals.
• Develop and maintain energy and waste KPIs, providing regular reporting and benchmarking across sites.
• Facilitate workshops to generate improvement ideas.
• Collaborate with sites to implement metering systems and energy monitoring tools.

What is required to be successful in this role?

• Engineering degree (energy, mechanical, environmental, electrical, or related discipline).
• Proven expertise in industrial energy and waste reduction and efficiency optimization.
• Proven track of Energy reduction and waste improvement
• Strong facilitation and communication skills.
• Ability to work across multiple sites and cultures.

Disclaimer

We are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails to an employee about this position. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means.