Job Title: Principal Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineer
Location: Centred around London, various UK sites, international opportunities, flexible trust-based work policy.
Salary: £74 - 90k PA depending on experience

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Benefits:
+ Employee Share Option Scheme
+ Above industry standard holiday (30 days vs 22-25)
+ Close office over Xmas where possible
+ £500 personal development grant every year
+ Fully funded training and professional development opportunities
+ Unlimited mental health support
+ 3 months of equal Paternity or Maternity leave
+ Monthly rewilding donation on your behalf
+ Cycle to Work scheme

About Mission Zero Technologies:

MZT is a hardware technology start-up pioneering a breakthrough Direct Air Carbon Capture (DAC) technology that can scrub CO2 from the air using a fraction of the energy compared to incumbent technologies. In the past three years, MZT has evolved its technology from concept to pilot plant scale, successfully raising over £8m from a mixture of private and government funding. MZT’s technology combines efficient solution-phase capture of CO2 with a continuous and compact electrochemical separation technology.

Mission Zero’s work is guided by our principles of bold curiosity, problem-solving acumen, and hope for the future. We strive to realize a world where humanity has new tools to fight climate change, permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and produce everyday products from atmospheric carbon emissions.

The Opportunity:
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 revenue-generating company poised to rapidly scale our direct-air capture technology across the world.

MZT is hiring a Principal Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineer, focused on the design and delivery of novel machines or systems through all stages of the product life cycle, ideally in a chemical industry context.

In this role, you will finalize design and deliver our first technology deployments at industrial scale. You will ensure 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. This will require you to apply experience in product delivery while interfacing with multiple stakeholders internally and externally.

The role will be centered around our headquarters in East-Central London, with periodic assignments to various UK sites, European suppliers, and further international sites as we expand globally.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:
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.
Specification, delegation, delivery, and review of all required mechanical, electrical, and relevant interdisciplinary design deliverables.
Interfacing with key external vendors for mechanical and electrical packages.
Supporting project management in technical delivery of detailed plant design and analysis for pilot and commercial systems.
Applying fundamental engineering knowledge to optimize plant and product performance.
Working closely at the mechanical-electrical-control interface, developing control engineering capacity across the company.

The Ideal Candidate Will Possess:

10 years minimum industrial experience delivering projects with significant mechanical and electrical design content.
MEng Engineering Degree with Mechanical and/or Electrical focus.
Experience and understanding of the full machine/product development cycle.
Ability to use 3D CAD Modelling Software with a PLM system (SOLIDWORKS & 3DEXPERIENCE preferred).
A passion for developing technical solutions for global challenges.
Strong practical skills, comfortable with hands-on work and desk-based tasks.
Expert understanding of mechanical packaging philosophy and procurement.
Ability to design and critically evaluate GAs, 3D models, P&IDs.
Good understanding of hazard and risk identification.
Experience in HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA & FMEA.
Breadth of exposure to process unit operations and mechanical packaged systems.
Chartered engineering status with IMechE, IEEE, IET or equivalent.
Deep understanding of materials in the context of chemical and weathering resistance.
Experience designing, running, and supporting research scale, pilots, and/or commercial plants.
Basic understanding of fundamental electrochemistry principles.

Job Ref: MZT-EngIV-Mech
Start Date: 01/02/2024
Hours: Full Time

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