Austin Held
About Austin Held
Austin Held is the Sulfur/Gas Processing Technical Lead at ExxonMobil in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with a background in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Company
Austin Held currently works at ExxonMobil, a leading multinational oil and gas corporation. His tenure at ExxonMobil involves various engineering roles at the Baton Rouge Refinery in Louisiana, United States.
Title
Austin Held holds the position of Sulfur/Gas Processing Technical Lead at ExxonMobil. In this role, he provides senior-level engineering support and mentorship for the refinery's sulfur unit and unsaturated light ends units.
Education and Expertise
Austin Held graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied from 2011 to 2015. His educational background in chemical engineering forms the foundation for his various technical roles at ExxonMobil.
Professional Background
Austin Held has a broad professional background within ExxonMobil. Before his current role, he was a Distillation and Specialties Process Engineer in 2020, FCC Contact Engineer from 2018 to 2020, Project Start-Up Engineer from 2017 to 2018, and Process Engineer Contact for Virgin Light Ends from 2016 to 2017. Additionally, he worked as a Clean Gasoline Engineer Co-op in 2014. His career at ExxonMobil has been marked by increasingly responsible engineering roles.
Early Career Experience
Austin Held's early career includes an internship at Bostik in Wauwatosa, WI, in 2013 and work as a Field Worker and Office Assistant at D&D Crop Service in Brookings, SD, during 2011 and 2012. He also served as a Lab Assistant at UW-Madison's Department of Animal Science in 2012. These roles provided him with practical experience in different facets of chemical engineering and fieldwork.