A curated index of process operator, engineering, technician, EHS, and trades roles across the Deer Park petrochemical corridor — including PMX Deer Park, LyondellBasell Houston Refinery, ExxonMobil Baytown, INEOS Olefins & Polymers, Chevron Phillips, and the Ship Channel turnaround contractor pool. Each opening links out to the active careers portal.
Roles below are continuously open across the corridor. Apply via the linked careers portal — most employers prefer their own ATS over third-party aggregators.
Operate distillation, FCC, hydrocracker, and coker units at the 340K bpd PMX Deer Park complex. Trainee through lead operator pay bands; full benefits; relocation assistance for qualified candidates. The career pipeline runs through San Jacinto College's Process Technology AAS program.
Process engineering at PMX Deer Park, LyondellBasell Houston Refinery, and ExxonMobil Baytown — unit optimization, troubleshooting, capital projects, turnaround planning. FCC, hydrocracker, or coker experience strongly preferred.
Install, calibrate, troubleshoot, and maintain process control instrumentation, motor control centers, and electrical distribution at refinery and petrochemical facilities. Lee College and San Jacinto College graduates are the primary feeder pipeline.
Process Safety Management compliance, OSHA reporting, TCEQ permit conditions, fenceline monitoring. Demand for process-safety EHS roles across the corridor remains elevated following the 2024 Deer Park H₂S release and subsequent regulatory focus.
Spring (Mar–May) and fall (Sep–Nov) turnaround seasons drive thousands of contract roles — pipefitters, welders, boilermakers, riggers, scaffold builders, TA coordinators. Per-diem and overtime are standard. Many turnaround contractors hire full-time-to-permanent for strong performers.
Pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, columns. NCCER credential or equivalent journeyman experience expected. Strong year-round demand at PMX, LyondellBasell, and ExxonMobil Baytown.
Refinery and petrochemical maintenance and turnarounds. 6G welder certification is highly compensated. Heaviest hiring during spring (Mar–May) and fall (Sep–Nov) turnarounds.
Emissions monitoring, TCEQ permit reporting, wastewater sampling, fenceline air monitoring. Strong demand across the Ship Channel given continued enforcement focus and refinery community-impact monitoring.
Crude assays, finished product testing, ASTM methods, process unit grab-sample analysis.
Load/unload, custody transfer, vessel scheduling. Roles across Colonial Pipeline, Magellan, Buckeye, and the PMX marine terminal at Mile 18 of the Houston Ship Channel.
340K bpd, 1,800+ direct employees. PMX posts via LinkedIn primarily.
268K bpd LyondellBasell Houston Refinery in Pasadena, adjacent to PMX Deer Park.
584K bpd refinery + chemical plant — the largest petrochemical complex in the U.S. by volume.
Chevron Phillips Chemical operates major Gulf Coast olefins and polymers facilities.
INEOS operates olefins capacity in the Deer Park area.
Industrial gases supplier to the corridor — H₂, N₂, O₂ across the Ship Channel.
Most refinery and plant employers in the Deer Park corridor recruit from a narrow set of feeder programs. The two strongest:
Deer Park (PMX) and Pasadena (LyondellBasell) sit minutes apart but recruit and pay differently. Don't filter by city alone — search both, plus La Porte for terminal/pipeline and Baytown for ExxonMobil.