Engineering Assistant Co-op

Carbon Run is a fast-growing, venture-backed climate technology company developing river alkalinity enhancement (RAE) projects that improve river health while generating high-integrity, durable carbon dioxide removal.

We partner with communities, utilities, conservation groups, and governments to restore ecosystems and deliver measurable climate impact. Carbon Run has projects both currently operating and in development, alongside a pipeline of projects across Canada and globally, supported by committed offtakes and capital partners to enable execution and growth.

We are seeking a talented Engineering Assistant Co-op student to join our growing technical team and contribute to the design and scale-up of the technology that restores river ecosystems and helps fight climate change by permanently sequestering carbon dioxide.

Reporting to and working closely with Carbon Run’s Project Engineer, the successful candidate will gain exposure to all aspects of our technology and operations, playing an important role within the small team responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling up our river restoration systems. The work spans the full arc of an engineering project, from design development and analysis through equipment selection, construction support, and verification in the field.

During the term the candidate will become the owner of several small projects that directly contribute to our technical roadmap, supported by the mentorship of experienced engineers and world-class scientists.

This is a fixed-term student position running from January to April, 2027 (approximately 14 weeks).

• Support the Project Engineer in managing the detailed engineering design of Carbon Run’s commercial system, including tracking deliverables, decisions, and open design questions
• Review incoming design deliverables such as process flow diagrams, P&IDs, equipment datasheets, and specifications, and consolidate Carbon Run’s comments for the Project Engineer
• Attend design review and progress meetings with engineering firms, capture decisions and action items, and follow up to close them out
• Support the Project Engineer with research and development projects that span internal departments

• Conduct and/or review engineering calculations, such as mass and energy balances, dosing rates, fluid mechanics, storage sizing, and material handling throughput
• Research equipment options and transferable technologies from water treatment, aquaculture, bulk solids handling, and chemical processing, and prepare comparisons that cover technical fit, capital cost, and operating cost
• Help prepare requests for quotation, track vendor responses, and summarize the technical differences between shortlisted options

• Provide support to the Field Team on site visits while following Carbon Run’s safety protocols and acting as a respectful ambassador in the rural communities we work in
• Support commissioning, troubleshooting, performance, and maintenance monitoring of Carbon Run’s existing systems
• Independently investigate technical issues that come up in the field or in the design, and recommend a course of action to the Project Engineer

• Prepare technical memos, drawing markups, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Maintain the engineering document register and revision control for design deliverables shared with engineering firms and other external parties
• Contribute to scientific, process engineering, and technical project management tasks

• Enrolled in an accredited undergraduate engineering program, ideally chemical, civil, environmental, or mechanical, and…