Manager Process Engineering, Clean Tech ***Completed***
Our Client is looking to add an engineer to their Operations Management team who understands large industrial process development and optimization. Experience working in the chemical, electrochemical, or petrochemical process industry would be ideal. Reporting to the Manager, Plant Operations, you will be spearheading the improvement of game-changing processes and equipment to lower cost and improve performance of Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies. You will be expected to build a team that fosters innovation while advancing existing processes and implementing new processes and approaches to improve productivity and efficiency.
Responsibilities
Drive characterization, performance optimization, and yield improvement activities on benchtop/pilot scale unit operations to de-risk commercial plant KPI baselines.
Conduct sensitivity analyses to assess relative cost-benefit/priority for process KPI optimization in pursuit of commercial plant CapEx/OpEx targets.
Identify, implement, and champion best practice in experimental design, data analysis and Statistical Process Control.
Build, lead, and mentor a team of process engineers to drive forward Carbon Engineering’s process. Create an environment that fosters innovation while implementing new processes and approaches to improve productivity.
Communicate Carbon Engineering’s technological vision, expertise and execution to internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
Education: PhD or MSc in Chemical Engineering or Chemistry
10+ years of relevant chemical process characterization and optimization experience.
Experience in new product development cycles, having demonstrated the ability to bring innovations from concept to reality.
Documented application of benchtop/pilot scale equipment/processes for proof-of-concept characterization.
Delivered and analyzed designed experiments that screen critical process variables and solve complex problems.
Demonstrated transfer of new technologies from development to production.
Experience preparing specifications for new equipment and processes.
Concrete CapEx and OpEx cost estimation for new processes and equipment.
Strong understanding of chemistry and chemical engineering concepts including mass transfer, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and kinetics.
Strong understanding of statistically based experiment design, data analysis, and process capability analysis
For more information please contact :
Tim Swanson
tim@corporate.bc.ca
604-639-9566