Chemical Research Engineer San Leandro, CA!

Job Title

This role is actively responsible to:

• Provide technical and engineering support for lab and pilot scale operation and design of gas fermentation and bioreactors involving the use of hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen/air.
• Install, setup, and commission laboratory and/or scale bioreactors, gas generators, gas storage, and gas manifolds.
• Operate, troubleshoot, and optimize gas generation, storage, and delivery systems and bioreactors.
• Apply engineering principles, research theories, and models to design and plan experiments and research activities related to bioreactors and/or gas fermentation.
• Communicate findings to internal project teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Write and review technical documentation including reports, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), and engineering design packages.
• Review literature and journal articles to inform program efforts.
• Maintain safety in the operation of gas generators, storage, and delivery to fermenters/bioreactors and support Project Safety Management (PSM) for the facility.

Must Qualifications

• Chemical engineering or mechanical engineering degree
• 5+ years of experience working an R&D lab or pilot scale setting, working with high pressure or flammable gasses to perform chemical or biological process.
• Expertise safely managing and using hazardous gases and high-pressure systems involving hydrogen, methane, ethylene, or other flammable gases.
• Able to recognize when optimization, correction, or custom changes are necessary - ability to troubleshoot and manage operations.
• Experience designing, fabricating, installing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and operating equipment performing gas fermentation, gas-to-liquid, gas-to-chemicals, hydrogenation, and/or other process involving high pressure and/or flammable gases in an R&D or operations role.

Preferred

• Experience in controls and automation an asset.
• Experience in design and simulation of gas transfer in chemical systems or bioreactors is an asset.

Skills Needed

• Strong understanding chemical reactions and engineering.
• Excellent organizational skills.