Sustainability Engineer - London, United Kingdom - Vita

Description

Job Description

Sustainability Engineer

Overview

Our client is seeking a senior sustainability scientist/engineer to join the Sustainable Fuels & Chemicals team of the Research & Development Center.

The Sustainable Fuels & Chemicals team is responsible for developing and improving unconventional and cost-effective technologies related to the conversion of renewable and recyclable feedstocks into sustainable fuels and chemicals.

The senior sustainability engineer's/scientist's primary role is to lead and contribute to the sustainability research, development, and commercialization of sustainable and recyclable fuels and chemicals by retrofitting existing units or developing new processes to produce sustainable products, including e-fuels, e-methanol, green hydrogen, e-naphtha, recycled plastics and others.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and initiate R&D projects related to the conversion of renewable feedstocks into sustainable and circular fuels and chemicals.

Lead necessary development stages of the chemical processes including bench-scale testing, pilot testing, demo plant trials, and others.

Lead efforts related to the development to produce e-fuels from CO2 and H2 by debottlenecking and revamping existing processes.

Lead the research and techno-commercialization tasks related to the production of e-fuels and circular chemicals through the integration of renewable and circular feedstocks into existing refinery and petrochemical processes.

Lead detailed plan in process engineering design and process and unit retrofitting.

Carry out process simulations and optimizations for the overall process and individual process steps.

Minimum Requirements

Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or related fields; a PhD is preferred.

Ten years of relevant experience, including technology development and process design/engineering associated with sustainable and circular fuels and chemicals.

Wide experience in renewable energy utilization and production, plant and process engineering design, process retrofitting, basic and detailed engineering, and process simulation and modeling.

Wide theoretical and practical knowledge of emerging renewable energy technologies, including e-fuels, CO2 hydrogenation, biomass conversion, and catalyst scale-up and testing for sustainable fuel production.