The Lubrizol Corporation Tech Stack
Specialty chemistry manufacturer for automotive, industrial, and consumer markets
Lubrizol is a Berkshire Hathaway-owned specialty chemicals company running a global manufacturing footprint (100+ facilities, 8,000 employees) with an engineering-heavy hiring mix focused on product development, process scale-up, and operational reliability. The stack reveals a traditional manufacturing operation — SAP ERP, Workday, DeltaV/DCS process control — paired with recent adoption of SAP Global Trade Services, suggesting supply-chain complexity scaling. Active project focus on process safety, root-cause investigations, and standardization points to manufacturing maturity challenges typical of companies operating at high velocity across multiple geographies.
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What The Lubrizol Corporation Is Building
◆Challenges
- Improving unit performance
- Process safety
- Reducing variability of production systems
- Improving plant reliability
- Improving asset availability
- Sustainable growth
- Reducing compliance risk
- Reducing plant downtime
- Equipment reliability
- Standardizing manufacturing processes
▲Active Projects
- Security controls implementation
- New product and process development
- Process and productivity improvement teams
- Root cause investigations for unplanned events
- Workday hcm optimization for oxychem
- Validation and qualification protocols
- Development/scale-up of new products/processes
- Implementation of lubrizol operating system
- Develop new investigation and response playbooks
- Monitor deviations vs sops
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Production Lead, Designer Lead, Strategy Lead, Marketing Communications Director, R&D Director