LanzaTech
Plant Engineer
Soperton, GA - Full Time
Welcome to the Post Pollution Future with LanzaTech
About us: LanzaTech was founded on the belief that we have enough carbon above ground to make everything we need. Through our biorecycling technology, we transform carbon into sustainable raw materials, replacing the need for virgin fossil carbon in consumer goods and transport fuels. We are building the circular carbon economy.
Our impact: To date, we have abated over 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (the equivalent amount of CO2 needed to charge 30,346,895,586 smartphones) across four commercial plants, and will soon have the capacity to abate 500,000 tons annually with our additional future plants.
With dozens more projects in the pipeline, we are helping global companies like Zara, H&M Move, Coty, and On use recycled carbon to make sustainable consumer products from carbon that would otherwise be emitted from heavy industries such as steel making.
Our team:
We are a woman-led company on a mission to recycle the world’s carbon supply, and we want you to join us!
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Plant Engineer- at our Freedom Pines location- Soperton, GA
Key Responsibilities
Position Requirements
Preferred Knowledge/Skills
Physical Requirements/Work Environment
Learn more about us by visiting www.lanzatech.com/news/ and take a look at some recent coverage:
This Job Description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee and may be revised at any time by the Company.
This position is open to candidates authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. LanzaTech is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are not able to support work visa sponsorship with this role and preference will be given to local candidates.
About us: LanzaTech was founded on the belief that we have enough carbon above ground to make everything we need. Through our biorecycling technology, we transform carbon into sustainable raw materials, replacing the need for virgin fossil carbon in consumer goods and transport fuels. We are building the circular carbon economy.
Our impact: To date, we have abated over 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (the equivalent amount of CO2 needed to charge 30,346,895,586 smartphones) across four commercial plants, and will soon have the capacity to abate 500,000 tons annually with our additional future plants.
With dozens more projects in the pipeline, we are helping global companies like Zara, H&M Move, Coty, and On use recycled carbon to make sustainable consumer products from carbon that would otherwise be emitted from heavy industries such as steel making.
Our team:
- We’re a diverse, woman-led company, with over 400 team members and counting
- We’re distributed around the globe—from Chicago and Europe to India, China, & New Zealand
We are a woman-led company on a mission to recycle the world’s carbon supply, and we want you to join us!
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Plant Engineer- at our Freedom Pines location- Soperton, GA
Key Responsibilities
- Establish expectations and implement policies, procedures and management systems to maintain a safe, environmentally responsible and compliant operation on site.
- Advise and assist in the commissioning of newly constructed projects (including overseeing mechanical completion, taking lead on punch list requirements and resolutions, pre-commissioning, wet commissioning, performance testing, and training).
- Prepare training material content, develop SOP’s and task checklists for operations in a frequently changing research environment.
- Engineer will need to be available to advise on process operation; this will require frequent remote support, as needed, at night and on the weekends. Occasionally, there will be times when the engineer will need to be at site during off-hours.
- Engineer will be heavily involved in the MOC process at site. This will include leading meetings with key stakeholders, documenting changes, and maintenance of P&ID’s at site realizing that, due to the R&D nature of the work, the P&ID’s can change quite frequently.
- Candidate should be proficient in completing all engineering project deliverables that are needed across the organization to support both the Skokie teams and external customers. Daily Communication with lead scientists and engineers across the company is necessary during key projects.
- Prepare individual run plans and tabulate results. Assist in solving all issues that occur during trials while documenting the technical learnings from various conditions.
- Interact with third parties such as equipment vendors, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractors and industry consultants during the construction phases of projects.
- Interact with internal customers (i.e. Projects, Process Engineering, E&D, and Business Development) to further the development of LanzaTech’s technologies and their deployment at larger scale.
- Develop and share best practices with the engineering and science teams throughout the company
Position Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- Strong knowledge of and willing to learn about process unit operations involving gases, fermentation and catalysis
- Strong leadership, organizational, training and communication skills (written and oral); the job will require interacting with numerous parties as the projects are frequently multi-faceted in nature and require input from a range of skillsets and experience.
- Self-motivated with the ability to take initiative and collaborate amongst teams
- Ability and willingness to work with hazardous gases and chemicals
- Up to 10% travel may be required on an as-needed basis
Preferred Knowledge/Skills
- 5 years of plant operations and commissioning experience in gas processing, bio-processing, refining, and/or petrochemical sector
- Knowledge of DCS or PLC programing maintenance
- Analytics and/or field instrumentation knowledge (Typical analytics are GC and HPLC; typical field instrumentation at site are Pressure Transmitters, RTD’s, Coriolis and Magnetic Flow Meters)
- Mechanical process equipment knowledge
- AutoCAD experience (scale drawings and diagrammatic are both helpful)
- Ability to understand and apply chemical engineering fundamentals (e.g. heat transfer, hydrodynamics, heat and mass balance)
Physical Requirements/Work Environment
- The Freedom Pines site is an environment where heat, chemical or noise hazards are present
- Candidate should be able to climb equipment ladders up to 50 ft., able to enter equipment for inspection, able to use personal protective equipment (PPE), willing to work with hand tools as needed and have the ability to lift 25lbs.
Learn more about us by visiting www.lanzatech.com/news/ and take a look at some recent coverage:
- Selected by the US Department of Energy to receive a $200 million investment
- Featured on abc7 Chicago News with Mark Rivera
- TIME100’s Most Influential Companies
- Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies
- Forbes: Synthetic biology gets the Gucci treatment
This Job Description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee and may be revised at any time by the Company.
This position is open to candidates authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. LanzaTech is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are not able to support work visa sponsorship with this role and preference will be given to local candidates.
