Chemical Process Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and run bench and demonstration-scale wet processing equipment. You will also handle process characterization, scale-up documentation, and general plant process engineering.

What you will do

• Design, build, and run bench and demonstration-scale wet processing equipment
• Process characterization including pickup and add-on measurement, uniformity, mass balances, and kinetics data collection
• Scale-up documentation including PFDs, P&IDs, SOPs, and mass and energy balances
• Sourcing and commissioning of wet-end / dip-coating hardware
• General plant process engineering including utilities, chemical transfers, waste streams, and safety procedures

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering field or science
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with plant or pilot equipment: pumps, tanks, heat exchangers, chemical transfers, and instrumentation
• Experience handling aggressive chemistry: acids, reactive monomers, or inert-atmosphere work
• 1+ years of experience using software tools such as Matlab or Python
• Software fluency, enabling automation of test or analysis tasks
• Ability to work in fast paced and demanding atmosphere
• Creative problem solving that brings together reactive chemistry, radiochemistry, material handling, fluid mechanics disciplines
• Must be a U.S. citizen

Nice to have

• chemical engineer preferred
• Direct web-processing experience

About the company

Kunin Technologies is revolutionizing the critical mineral supply chain by implementing advanced separation technologies to capture value from overlooked resources.