Chemical Engineer

The role

This Chemical Engineer will support battery recycling and related operations within the Operations group. The role involves working with operations and maintenance teams to ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable processes.

What you will do

• Work closely with operations and maintenance teams to ensure processes are safe, efficient, sustainable, and continuously improving
• Lead and participate in cross-functional teams to develop and implement new process plant and equipment
• Testwork and pilot plant design and operation
• Flowsheet conceptualization and development
• Flowsheet trade-off evaluations and studies
• Process plant design
• Process plant implementation and installation assistance
• Process plant commissioning and ramp-up

Required qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or related discipline
• 3 to 5 years experience in Chemical Plant Operations and/or Design and Commissioning
• Large scale industrial processing experience
• Operational support and track record of solving difficult chemical and metallurgical process problems and making plant improvements
• Testwork and pilot plant design and operating experience
• Process modelling (HSCSIM, SysCAD, METSIM) and equipment sizing linking testwork and pilot plant operation to real project implementation
• Trade-off studies and financial evaluation
• Process plant design and commissioning
• Track record of solving difficult chemical and metallurgical processing problems
• Self Motivated with a hands on approach who takes the initiative
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to safely perform job duties in both office and production environments

Nice to have

• Metallurgical processing context of this experience (mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy and electrometallurgy)

About the company

Redwood Materials is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries. The company was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel.