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Process Development and Scale Up Engineer

Remote but ideally located in Austin, TX
Full-Time
Applications are considered on a rolling basis

Opportunity

Endeavour’s Pact group has an exciting opportunity for a Process Development and Scale Up Engineer to join the team, working directly with Pact Fuels part of Endeavour Inspired Infrastructure and focusing on scaling up novel technologies from Pilot to Commercial scale.

Because of our dedication to efficiency and maintaining smooth operations, Pact is highly selective about the people we bring on board—our work depends on it. Therefore, the Process Development and Scale Up Engineer must be agile and comfortable in a rapidly changing environment. The right person should be professional, trustworthy with confidential information, highly organized, self-motivated, and able to work equally as well independently as with a team. We’re seeking ultra-creatives and superstar performers with a sense of humility and a hunger to make a positive impact in the world. Are you ready to #jointhejourney?

Reports to:
Senior Director, Business Development & Strategy

Key Responsibilities

  • Understand new process concepts to meet future business needs. Develop options to ensure performance advantages based on industry wide strategic opportunities.
  • Evaluate new process configuration options via flowsheet analysis to identify configuration options which have the highest probability of commercial success.
  • Assess how the technology will integrate into operations (brownfield) or new installations (greenfield) with the implications of integration on the process configurations.
  • Derisk the process by identification of key parameters for process scale up to commercial volumes, understanding raw material specifications, finished product specifications, and impacts on operability and economics.
  • Establish and execute experimental and/or modeling plans using appropriate tools to address critical technical uncertainties in the technology commercialization.
  • Partner with engineering capabilities (internal or external) to drive operability and design the process for reaching commercial targets.
  • Optimize the process consistent with business/program objectives, influence and guide product/process specifications.
  • Actively seek out and engage third parties that can provide competitive advantage or accelerate process.
  • Engage with customers to understand needs and build feedback into the process configuration.

Education and Experience

  • A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.
  • PhD in Chemical Engineering preferred.
  • Self-motivated
  • Ability to visit operations in various geographies, may involve spending significant time at a specific location in the event of process challenges

Specific Skills / Abilities

  • Work experience with process conceptualization and modeling using process simulation tools (Aspen or equivalent)
  • Work experience with lab-scale and pilot-scale operations
  • Academic or work experience with physical model / 3D modeling
  • Understanding of design engineering, process design technology selection, early-stage economic analysis

Great Place to Work

  • A fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture focused on innovation
  • A flexible, autonomous work environment
  • A culture of respect, learning, and excellence
  • Experienced, highly talented experts as team peers
  • Growth and travel opportunities
  • Be part of a team of change-makers having a significant impact on real people around the world

About

PACT

Edged is a fast-growing provider of sustainable data centers and energy infrastructure. The company builds and operates a global network of ultra-efficient, AI-ready data centers with waterless cooling for colocation, hyperscale and build-to-suit customers. The highly differentiated infrastructure platform is the first large-scale, global deployment of waterless cooling platform-wide and transforms data center growth into a catalyst for sustainable development. Edged is backed by a deep proprietary technology stack that will include renewable microgrid systems, ultra-clean generators, and waste-to-fuel solutions. The platform is designed for rapid deployment with more than a dozen new data centers operating or under construction across Europe and North America and a gigawatt-scale project pipeline.

The North American division of Edged is a joint venture between one of the largest private multinational corporations in the world and an affiliate of Endeavour. Endeavour is a purpose-driven organization helping innovators to develop and launch breakthrough solutions for global challenges in the areas of energy, water, and waste.

www.edged.us

Edged is a fast-growing provider of sustainable data centers and energy infrastructure. The company builds and operates a global network of ultra-efficient, AI-ready data centers with waterless cooling for colocation, hyperscale and build-to-suit customers. The highly differentiated infrastructure platform is the first large-scale, global deployment of waterless cooling platform-wide and transforms data center growth into a catalyst for sustainable development. Edged is backed by a deep proprietary technology stack that will include renewable microgrid systems, ultra-clean generators, and waste-to-fuel solutions. The platform is designed for rapid deployment with more than a dozen new data centers operating or under construction across Europe and North America and a gigawatt-scale project pipeline.

Edged is a subsidiary of Endeavour, a purpose-driven organization helping innovators to develop and launch breakthrough solutions for global challenges in the areas of energy, water, and waste.

www.edgedenergy.com

Edged Energy and MERLIN Properties have partnered together to build a growing network of ultra-efficient, carbon neutral data centers with waterless cooling across the Iberian Peninsula. Edged is a fast-growing global provider of sustainable data centers and energy infrastructure for colocation, hyperscale and build-to-suit customers. The highly differentiated infrastructure platform is the first large-scale deployment of waterless cooling platform-wide and transforms data center growth into a catalyst for sustainable development. Edged is backed by a deep proprietary technology stack that helps minimize the environment footprint, lower costs, and enable a new generation of on-demand infrastructure for positive impact.

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www.thermalworks.com

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Endeavour is taking on global challenges, and to create the appropriate global solutions is not easy. Our teams work extremely hard because we believe in Endeavour’s mission: to guarantee clean water and renewable energy to everyone, everywhere by decentralizing infrastructure, developing new technologies, & deploying energy, water, and waste treatment solutions that are more profitable than those that currently exist. We are a group of passionate change-makers who want to leave the world better than the way we found it. Endeavour prides itself on hiring talented, highly motivated people because that’s what our mission requires. There is a strong sense of camaraderie between good-natured people who bring their A-game to work every day to make a difference. To work at Endeavour is to know that you are part of something special—something bigger than yourself.

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