Job Description
We’re looking for a process engineer with 5+ years of experience in scaling catalytic technologies to pilot and beyond. You will play a central role in designing, constructing, and commissioning our pilot unit and subsequently designing our first commercial unit.
Required core competencies:
- Procuring, integrating, operating, and fixing pilot-scale equipment;
- Pilot chemical plant commissioning and operation;
- Experience with recycling loops;
- Experience with gas-to-liquids processes (syngas-to-methanol preferred);
- Collaboration with EPCs in overseeing FOAK commercial unit design;
- Experience with Aspen or other process simulation software.
Preferred qualifications:
- PLC/SCADA design and integration;
- Experience working with modular systems;
- Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
As Rise Reforming scales, this role is expected to grow into a VP of Engineering or Chief Engineer position, leading a team of process and project engineers across multiple commercial deployments. Senior Chemical Process Engineer will report to the CTO.
Compensation: $125,000+/year + stock options + performance bonus + benefits (health insurance, 401k).
Location: In person, Chicago, IL and Wheaton, IL.
Must have a car.
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Job Details
- Category
- Manufacturing
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Posted
- Compensation
- $125,000 per year
About Rise Reforming
Geopolitical conflicts and natural disasters frequently expose the vulnerability of the American chemical industry. The reason? Production is centralized and fossil fuel-dependent. The solution? Localized production using an undervalued resource: biogas. The US produces enough biogas to make over $20 bn/y worth of chemicals, but 60% is wasted in low-margin applications or flared altogether. Rise Reforming is commercializing a modular process to transform this underutilized biogas on-site into cheap, supply-secure chemicals. Our beachhead market is dimethyl ether (DME), used as an aerosol propellant and a low-carbon fuel additive in propane. Our target market is methanol: an established billion $ chemical and the future of low-carbon shipping. We're doing our pilot project at a Chicagoland wastewater plant. This will be the first wastewater biogas-to-methanol demo in the Americas. We're hiring for a senior chemical process engineer. Apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer
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