Senior Process Engineer

SiTration is seeking a Senior Process Engineer

to join our team and help scale our groundbreaking critical minerals extraction solution. At SiTration, you will have the opportunity to develop and scale our novel technology, while helping to enable a sustainable and profitable critical materials supply chain for an electrified future.

SiTration is a rapidly-growing team of creative, passionate, and deeply-technical scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs working to develop a low-cost, sustainable approach for harvesting critical minerals. At the core of SiTration’s approach is a patented silicon filtration and extraction technology developed at MIT. This novel solution aims to transition resource-intensive chemical and thermal separations to an ultra-efficient electrified approach.

Founded out of MIT in 2020, SiTration’s operations are located in Watertown, MA. This position requires a full-time in-person commitment.

If you’re a go-getter and are excited about working on tough tech that has the potential to make a difference in the fight against climate change, please apply! Above all else, we are looking for motivated and talented people to join our team.

Responsibilities will include:

- Work closely with R&D and engineering teams to develop system requirements

- Design and implement process flow diagrams (PFDs) and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs)

- Develop and execute on pilot plant designs for process scale up

- Develop and manage project timelines and budgets

- Develop process flows and optimize process performance through quantitative mass and energy balances

- Assist in developing process control strategies

- Lead Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPs) and safety reviews of all critical systems

- Manage and mentor junior engineers

Desired experience and skills:

- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Materials and/or Metallurgical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Operations, Petroleum Engineering, or similar with 5+ total years of experience

- Strong understanding of process engineering principles (e.g., fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer)

- Demonstrated ability to design and build laboratory and pilot-scale fluid systems

- Experience with electrochemical systems is a plus

- Experience with process modeling software (e.g., Aspen, SysCAD, CHEMCAD)

- Ability to clearly identify and manage risk to meet project timelines and requirements

- Experience with safety and hazard analysis (e.g., HAZOP, SWIFT) methodology

- Experience with CAD software (e.g., solidworks, fusion360) is a plus

- Excellent communication and organizational skills

- Some travel (up to 10%) may be required for system deployments and commissioning

The ideal candidate will:

- Be passionate about sustainable mining for environmental and societal benefits

- Prioritize safety

- Be highly motivated and able to manage complex projects with multiple teams, both internal and external

- Desire working in a fast-paced environment and have opportunities for rapid career development

At SiTration, we:

Are mission-driven.

We are excited to tackle pressing environmental and societal challenges faced by our world today.

Are curious.

We are scientists and engineers by training and dreamers at heart. We are able to work innovatively by fearlessly asking questions and pursuing the answers.

Enable, empower, and elevate.

We support and uplift each other, both by collaborating in teams and as we tackle tasks independently. We all have different technical and personal backgrounds, and welcoming our differences allows us to grow together and solve the challenges at hand.

SiTration offers competitive salary and equity compensation packages for all employees; we believe that all employees should partake in the success of the company. SiTration, Inc. is committed to providing equal-opportunity employment to all persons. No person shall be denied equal access because of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or physical/mental disability.