Lead Piping and Plant Layout Engineer

Climeworks is a leading high-quality carbon removal provider, combining decades of expertise in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology with a holistic approach to carbon removal solutions.

Climeworks advises companies on their carbon removal strategies and provides tailored portfolios of nature-based and engineered approaches, offering end-to-end services to help achieve net-zero goals. The company runs the world's first two DAC plants in Iceland, demonstrating its core commitment to high-quality carbon removal that is backed by over 15 years of pioneering research, development, and deployment.

By advancing the most reliable solutions in the market, Climeworks accelerates the global transition to net zero, unlocking economic value for businesses, governments, and society.

We foster a dynamic environment and are building a global purpose driven team. We are looking for disruptive thinkers, passionate achievers and inspiring leaders that are ready to take on the world’s greatest challenge.

Will you join us?

Specifications and design
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You develop and lead our Piping Engineering & Plant Layout Team, making sure it delivers on all project requirements in a fit-for-purpose manner Globally. You ensure owner requirements are clearly defined, documented, and communicated to contractors, and validate design assumptions against operability, safety, and applicable regulatory expectations. This includes defining piping and plant layouts suitable for local and regional execution.

Contractor management
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You review and approve contractor submissions, enforce owner requirements, provide technical clarifications, and ensure adherence to schedule, quality, safety, and operability. You set clear expectations for execution methods, field quality controls, and turnover documentation needed for safe operation and maintenance.

Innovation and cost optimization
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You develop innovative engineering solutions to identify cost‑saving opportunities without compromising quality or safety. You focus on design‑to‑construct decisions appropriate for local boundary conditions (e.g., modularization readiness, reduced field welds, optimized layout, local climactic conditions, access and maintenance.

Interface management
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You assure strong integration with process, civil, electrical, mechanical and O&M disciplines to achieve seamless and optimized designs. You proactively manage cross‑discipline interfaces.

Regulatory and stakeholder awareness
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You support alignment of piping and plant layout scope assumptions with local permitting and application needs for energy/industrial facilities and infrastructure interfaces.

Documentation and knowledge management
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You maintain thorough records of technical decisions, design bases, vendor information, and lessons learned for future operational use.

Cold‑weather and constructability
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As our next DAC plant is planned for Alberta, Canada, you incorporate Alberta (or similar) climate conditions into piping and plant layout design and execution planning (freeze protection, winterization, insulation/heat tracing philosophy, drainage/low‑point management, cold start/commissioning constraints). You ensure the design is constructable and able to operate and be maintained through winter conditions, including consideration of temporary works, winter work sequencing, and interface constraints with cold‑weather civil activities.

Educational background
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You hold a degree in Mechanical Engineering or any related discipline.

Professional experience
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You bring at least 10 years of experience in process plants, preferably in cold weather climates, as a piping and plant layout engineer, with understanding of current standards and directives in mechanical, piping and civil engineering.

Project experience
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You have hands‑on involvement in at least one full‑cycle project in the chemical, petrochemical, or renewables industry, covering all phases from FEED and detailed design to construction, commissioning and start‑up – preferably in cold‑weather or remote/seasonally constrained execution environments.

Work style
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You are precise, adaptable, and reliable, with a proactive and…