Job Description

• Your mission at Climeworks is to manage the execution of FEED and Detailed Design projects with your team and external partners with focus on optimizing our plants enabling fast upscaling of our technology. Supporting the EPC Process engineering group to produce the FEED, detail design, Process engineering deliverables and studies.
• You interact with vendor's to resolve technical deviations and design standard exceptions.
• You will provide leadership identifying design, schedule, cost, quality, and reliability risks and pro-actively work with other staff to quantify or qualify the risks, so that timely decisions can be made for the benefit of the project. This also entails providing detailed technical information on all aspects of process engineering at the request of other project disciplines.
• You will be dedicated and accountable to the Project Manager/Director to support the design processes so that a complete design package is delivered to the organization as per the agreed schedule.
• You report to the engineering manager, identifying roadblocks, resourcing needs and outlining the schedule for process engineering activities.
• You evaluate standard and innovative industrial technologies to be transferred into our process plant.
• You model, simulate and optimize our process to identify optimal designs and subsequently review and supervise the creation of PFDs and P&IDs.
• You create tools to enable proper costing of process related equipment at an early stage of development.
• You are continuously analyzing data from our current plants in operation to optimize our processes and further improve our new plants.
• You train and sustain methodology on process risk assessment and guide others in relevant norms and directives by building up a formalized framework.
• You supervise the process engineering work packages done both internally and from our external contractors, ensuring the design adheres to specification and design guidelines.
• You review technical bids, carry out technical checks of performance data and oversee performance guarantee tests for major equipment.
• You work closely with the R&D team to understand experimental data and use it to drive decision making during process design.
• You interface with Operation and Maintenance to ensure cross boundary issues are identified and resolved effectively.
• You work as part of execution project team to support other engineering disciplines, facilities and systems for Direct Air Capture plants.
• You actively participate in relevant reviews including: P&ID reviews, HAZOPS, Design reviews, Value Engineering, and any independent reviews as necessary.
• You are responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the Climeworks Quality Assurance systems.
• You also are responsible for personal safety and working within the Climeworks Health & Safety procedures.
• You will work on site for some periods to provide Construction and Commissioning and Start-up support where needed.