Product Engineer

Role Overview

At M2X Energy, we're rethinking how fuels and chemicals are made—turning stranded natural gas into valuable, low-carbon products that help combat climate change. As the Gas-To-Methanol (GTM) Product Manager, you'll help mature our Gas-to-Methanol system from a low-rate initial production (LRIP) product into a repeatable, manufacturable, field-ready platform that can scale.

This role is less focused on traditional commercially-oriented product management, and more focused on product definition, design maturation, manufacturability, quality, and scale-up. The GTM Product Manager will work at the center of engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, commissioning, and operations to convert lessons from prototypes and deployed systems into a robust product roadmap, controlled design baseline, and scalable production strategy. This role is ideal for someone who can bridge system-level thinking with disciplined execution and who is excited by the challenge of taking industrial hardware from pilot stage to repeatable deployment.

• Own the GTM Product Definition: Maintain the product requirements, system architecture boundaries, and design intent for the Gas-to-Methanol system, ensuring alignment across process, mechanical, electrical, controls, and manufacturing teams.
• Drive Design Maturation: Lead the transition from early manufacturing configurations to controlled product versions by managing requirement traceability, configuration control, quality control, design reviews, and engineering change prioritization.
• Build for Scale: Partner with engineering and manufacturing to improve design for manufacturability, design for assembly, serviceability, modularization, and standardization across GTM builds.
• Translate Field Learning into Product Improvements: Gather input from commissioning, operations, service, and quality teams; identify recurring issues; and convert those insights into prioritized product changes and sustaining engineering work.
• Own Cross-Functional Prioritization: Create and maintain the GTM product roadmap with emphasis on reliability, throughput, cost reduction, safety, manufacturability, and deployment readiness rather than feature marketing.
• Support Manufacturing Scale-Up: Work with production and supply chain teams to define product structures, critical parts lists, long-lead component strategy, build sequencing, test requirements, and release readiness for scaled deployment.
• Strengthen Verification and Validation: Define what “good” looks like for GTM product performance and coordinate validation plans, factory acceptance criteria, commissioning feedback loops, and readiness gates for new revisions.
• Improve Quality and Change Control: Partner with quality and engineering leaders to implement disciplined documentation, nonconformance feedback, root-cause learning, and corrective actions that improve future builds.
• Coordinate Internal Stakeholders: Serve as the integrator across process engineering, mechanical design, controls, manufacturing, supply chain, field operations, and leadership to ensure decisions are made clearly and tradeoffs are explicit.
• Provide Select Commercial Support: Support business development and project teams on product fit, configuration selection, and technical tradeoffs when needed, while keeping the primary focus on product readiness and execution.

• A strong technical foundation in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field; B.S. required, advanced degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, systems engineering, manufacturing engineering, new product introduction, or technical program leadership for industrial equipment, process systems, energy systems, or other complex hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to take a product from prototype or pilot stage into a more mature, repeatable, manufacturable release.
• Strong grasp of system-level product development, including requirements management, tradeoff analysis, design reviews, configuration management, and engineering change processes.
• Experience working cross-functionally with design engineering, fabrication/assembly, supply chain, test, and field teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to read and discuss P&IDs, equipment layouts, assembly concepts, test plans, and technical documentation with engineering depth and sound judgment.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize competing needs and maintain clarity across many moving parts.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, especially in driving alignment and documenting decisions, risks, and next steps.

• Experience with modular process plants, skid-mounted equipment, gas processing systems, methanol or syngas systems, or adjacent oil and gas / industrial process equipment.
• Familiarity with design‑for‑manufacturing and assembly principles, factory acceptance testing,…