Principal Mechanical Mechatronics Engineer, Mission Zero
£74-90k
+Employee Share Options
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Low-cost carbon capture
Job no longer available
Low-cost carbon capture
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£74-90k
+Employee Share Options
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To reinvent the world's relationship with carbon.
Role
Who you are
- 10 years minimum industrial experience delivering projects with significant mechanical and electrical design content across multiple industries
- MEng Engineering Degree with Mechanical and/or Electrical focus or suitable discipline
- Experience and understanding of the full machine/product development cycle (Conceptualisation, design, delivery/commissioning and decommissioning),
- Ability to use 3D CAD Modelling Software with a PLM system, (SOLIDWORKS & 3DEXPERIENCE preferred)
- A passion for developing technical solutions for the world's greatest challenges
- Evidenced strong practical skills, comfortable with both hands-on work and desk-based tasks. Comfortable working with ambiguity
- Expert understanding of mechanical packaging philosophy and procurement
- Ability to design and critically evaluate GAs (General Arrangement Drawings), 3D models, P&IDs for vendor scope splits on paper and live plant scales especially from electrical and mechanical perspective
- Good understanding of hazard and risk identification especially relating to e.g. PUWER, Machinery Directive, CE / UKCA marking
- Appreciation of good design for minimal maintenance approaches
- Experience in HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA & FMEA
- Demonstrated understanding of hazard and risk identification especially from control & electrical rating perspective
- Breadth of exposure to process unit operations and mechanical packaged systems extending to MV electrical installations and transformer packages
Desirable
- Mechanical / electrical inter-discipline specialism in undergraduate / postgraduate studies
- >15 years experience in relevant industries
- Chartered engineering status with IMechE, IEEE, IET or equivalent
- Deep understanding of materials in the context of chemical and weathering resistance
- Demonstrated experience working with electrodialysis / electrolytic processes and/or absorption, scrubbing, continuous gas-liquid systems, compression, liquefaction
- Experience designing, running and supporting research scale, pilots and/or commercial plants
- Experience with engineering supply chain management
- Basic understanding of fundamental electrochemistry principles and background industrial chemistry knowledge
- Familiarity with processes handling CO2
- Formal training / qualifications in e.g. machine safety / CMSE
What the job involves
- You have the opportunity to join MZT at a pivotal point in our company's history - our transition from an early-stage R&D startup into a product offering, revenue-generating company poised to rapidly scale our direct-air capture technology across the world
- MZT is hiring a Principal Mechanical / Mechatronics Engineer, with skills focused on design and delivery of novel machines or system through all stages of the product life cycle - ideally ina chemical industry context
- In this role you will finalise design and deliver our first technology deployments at industrial scale. Inheriting MZT product modules designed and built by our historically process engineering focused delivery team and our engineering partners, you will ensure the effective deployment, hook-up and interfacing with host sites
- You will be a key member of the Delivery team, shepherding the product definition through final electro-mechanical detailed design toward site deployment at scales of 250 teCO2/year capacity at our Norfolk site up to 5,000 teCO2/year and beyond over the coming years
- This will require you to apply experience in product delivery while interfacing with multiple stakeholders internally and externally
- Leading, guiding, reviewing and developing safe electro-mechanical designs internally and with external contractors across numerous MZT projects from 50 te/year research units to 5,000 te/year scale up projects and beyond
- Specification, delegation, delivery and review of all required mechanical, electrical, and relevant interdisciplinary design deliverables
- Interfacing with all key external vendors for mechanical and electrical packages, especially fabricators and site hosts
- Supporting project management team in technical delivery of detailed plant design and analysis for pilot and commercial systems, especially in respect of mechanical and electrical requirements including packaging philosophy and in the interfaces between contractor team engineering disciplines
- Applying fundamental engineering knowledge to ensure suitable vendor boundaries are defined with the opportunity to optimise plant and product performance as MZT scales rapidly in the DAC space
- Working closely at the mechanical-electrical-control interface, developing, broadening and consolidating control engineering capacity across the company
- Expert understanding of EC&I scopes of work including FDS, control panel specification, software programming interfaces, proven record interfacing, practising or leading EC&I engineering
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Mission Zero is a UK-based company that develops machines to remove carbon dioxide from the air, in a process known as direct air capture (DAC). DAC promises to create a more circular carbon economy by capturing carbon and recycling it, but a major challenge for the technology is that the capture process itself can be very energy intensive.
This is where Mission Zero steps in, with a two-step process that works by capturing CO2 in a water-based solvent and then using electrolysis to separate it from the water. This approach has the potential to use 3-5x less energy than other established DAC technologies - a promising step for the technology.
Interestingly, Mission Zero is focusing on selling its DAC units directly, rather than selling associated carbon credits. It believes this approach will require less capital and help it to achieve faster scaling, as it pursues the goal to have one billion tonnes of DAC capability deployed by 2040.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$29.3m
SERIES A
May 2022
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $34.5m
Company benefits
- 30 days of Annual Leave
- 3 months Paternity/Maternity Leave
- £500 annual Personal Development Grant
- Unlimited mental health support
- Employee Share Options Scheme
- Christmas holidays office closure
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employer-matched contributions to global re-wilding programme
- Opportunities to directly impact where our company is headed
- A high-growth, high-trust environment that encourages bold creativity
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Nicholas Chadwick
(Co-Founder & CEO)They have a PhD in Materials Science from University College London and a Masters in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham. Experience scaling and building early-stage materials technologies in renewables, semiconductors, sensors and carbon capture.
Gaël Gobaille-Shaw
(Co-Founder & CTO)Scientific Consultant at Supercritical Solutions. They gained their PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bristol. And in their final year of University they joined Deep Science Ventures as a Founding Analyst.
Shiladitya Ghosh
(Co-Founder & COO)They gained their PhD in Materials Science from University College London and a Masters in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham. They have 6 years of experience in low-carbon research with world-leading academic and industrial teams at Imperial College London and BP.
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