Careers

At Stepan Company, the synergy of scientific and business knowledge is crucial to fulfilling our vision to provide innovative solutions for a cleaner, healthier, more energy-efficient world. Our sales professionals utilize their technical backgrounds and business expertise to build customer relationships and bring our products to the global marketplace. They interface directly with our customers and distributors, evaluate current business, work with our chemists to facilitate new product commercialization and identify and develop new opportunities in the markets we serve.

Join the Sales and Marketing team.

This team creates, maintains and verifies global quality procedures across Stepan’s supply chain, including purchasing, manufacturing, product analysis and delivery of our finished products to our customers. We utilize global governance to assure adherence to these procedures through a dedicated audit function.

Join the Corporate Quality Assurance (QA) team.

Stepan’s customer service team handles product ordering and answers questions about our products and services, maintaining the trust and loyalty of our valued customers. We strive to collaborate with our customers to understand their needs, requirements and expectations in an effort to position our global supply chain partners for success delivering products, services and solutions that delight our mutual customers.

Join the Customer Service team.

Employees in the engineering group focus on operating and improving existing processes to ensure we operate efficiently, reliably and to world-class standards. Stepan also has a dedicated group of engineers focused on designing and implementing capital projects to ensure we are capable of meeting ever-growing customer demands in a changing market.

Join the Engineering team.

This team is responsible for timely and accurate global financial reporting. We serve as partners to all of our foreign subsidiaries and provide oversight and guidance on policies and procedures. We are proactive partners with the three major business segments to provide financial analysis of both existing businesses and growth opportunity initiatives. Our role in the company is to provide strategic initiatives and cost savings opportunities. We strive to be a true business partner throughout the organization.

Join the Finance team.

This essential team demonstrates skill in staffing, performance management and succession planning, administering compensation, benefits and recognition programs, as well as organizational and employee development, training, coaching and employee relations.

Join the Human Resources team.

Our IT groups support the company’s global growth strategy by developing, implementing and supporting business applications and information technologies. The Technical Support and site IT teams focus on the company’s network, hardware and telecommunications infrastructure. The Application Development team focuses on implementing and improving business processes and applications to best meet company-wide requirements. Site IT also has the responsibility to implement and improve site-specific applications and technologies. Together the groups work to provide reliable, available and secure telecommunications and computing services.

Join our Information Technology team.

Our legal team provides innovative, legal, regulatory and risk management solutions to enable Stepan Company to serve our customers throughout the world.

Join the Legal team.

This team is customer-focused and skilled at coordinating future manufacturing and movement of materials across multiple locations. If you have a knack for scheduling and forecasting, this is the team for you.

Join the Logistics team.

Stepan operates 16 manufacturing sites globally, producing a diverse range of products our customers want. Our number-one priority is to operate safe, compliant operations with constant focus on the health and welfare of our employees and the communities in which we operate. In operating and maintaining capable and reliable manufacturing plants that produce quality products, we strive to meet our customers' service needs every day. Having highly skilled employees working toward continuous improvement, in a flexible and team-focused culture keeps us competitive and enables us to support business growth. Stepan manufacturing operations offer career opportunities to people encompassing a wide range of skill sets, including health, safety, environmental, quality assurance and control, process engineering, project engineering, maintenance, finance, human resource management and production.

Join our Manufacturing team.

The procurement team leverages extensive industry knowledge to deliver the lowest possible total cost of ownership for the goods and services Stepan purchases to produce products that meet customer requirements. Procurement team members are knowledgeable regarding the company’s environmental, health and safety policies as well as our sustainability efforts, so our products stay true to our mission — and competitive in the marketplace.

Join the Procurement team.

At our facilities, we employ qualified individuals for specific production and production support positions, including process operators, process operator helpers, warehouse operatives, maintenance technicians and laboratory technicians. Many of these production positions work 11- or eight-hour rotating shifts through all 365 days of the year. At our flagship Millsdale facility in Illinois, USA, we employee more than 100 production and production support employees.

Join the Millsdale production team.

Join the Production team at other locations.

Our commitment to sustainability, safety and health are core values of Stepan Company. The members of this team are highly skilled and knowledgeable in the chemical industry, in establishing best practices and in providing guidance on applicable regulations.

Join the Regulatory Affairs, Environmental Health, Safety & Security team.

Stepan takes pride in our greatest asset: our employees. This team consists of diverse technological experts who utilize innovative science to identify opportunities, develop strategies and implement sustainable solutions. Stepan's R&D remains committed to securing our leading position in the industry while remaining committed to our high safety and environmental standards.

Join the Research and Development team.

Our professional and competent technical service and support centers have the opportunity to dialogue with both Stepan employees, authorized distributors and customers on a daily basis. Our staff is uniquely positioned to listen, engage and stay on the pulse of what's happening in the industry. Technical Service assists with technical inquiry, sample order placement, survey completion, web content management, technical training and market communication. Our customers can call our technical call center, e-mail or meet us at a tradeshow. Working in Technical Service is a great spring board to many other professions within the organization.

Join the Technical Service team.