Engineering Fabricator

Job Description

Our mission is to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO???. We convert excess inedible biomass into carbon-rich bio-oil and inject it into underground storage for permanent carbon removal. At scale, we can use bio-oil to make fossil-free iron.

Our carbon removal efforts began in 2020 with initial purchases from customers like Stripe, Shopify, and Microsoft. Since then, we've scaled to thousands of tons of carbon removal, grown to over a hundred employees, and established three locations in San Francisco, Colorado, and Louisiana.

We're expanding our team of ambitious, creative, and hands-on problem solvers. We value psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous learning. We take calculated risks and treat mistakes as opportunities to improve. If you're excited about tackling big challenges, we encourage you to explore our company values.

Come help us reverse climate change. Gigatons or bust!

About the Role

As an Engineering Fabricator at our Charm Colorado campus, you'll join a driven and highly technical team that is responsible for fabricating pyrolyzer and injection skid components, while also getting the opportunity to support the assembly + commissioning of new pyrolysis systems. This specific Engineering Fabrication role will provide critical and unique welding and build skills to make engineering designs come to life with deep collaboration with design engineers and operations staff. Working with fellow Charmers, vendors, and occasional third parties, you'll be directly contributing to new R&D assemblies and iterative design improvement on existing production equipment.

You're a great candidate for this role if you have experience with engineering drawing interpretation, metal fabrication, mechanical assembly, and are an excellent communicator/creative problem solver. The ideal candidate is safety-minded, proactive, hungry for new challenges, confident using machine tools and welding, and is able to effectively prioritize multiple tasks on a day-to-day basis. We use tools like Slack for quick back-and-forth with engineering, Onshape for reviewing designs and flagging issues early, and Jira to log builds, track revisions, and keep everyone in sync.

This role will report to our Engineering Technician Lead in Fort Lupton within the broader Engineering Department.

Your Responsibilities

• Give written and verbal feedback on the design of the equipment. Offer ways to design or fabricate something more easily based on your experience. We want someone who is excited to work alongside our design engineers to create the best possible outcomes.
• Fabricate key pieces of pyrolysis equipment from a range of design details. Some of our parts have full design drawings, and some are new concepts that we'll sketch together on a white board. We want you to be able to handle all of the above!
• Use and maintain our shop tools, including being an advocate for safety and best practices for keeping them highly functioning.
• Learn and navigate our CAD program (Onshape) to interface with design engineers and leverage the tool to create and document novel designs.
• Collaborate with the procurement team with inventory management and sub-assembly workflows in the Fabrication shop to ensure all fabrication kits are properly located and traceable.
• Participate in quality inspection and quality reviews alongside design engineers to make sure completed assemblies meet design intent.
• Learn and apply the various fabrication tools in our shop, CNC plasma table, plasma cutting, rotary welding table, pipe threader, 3D printer.
• Record your work in Confluence/JIRA/Google Product Suite, including providing documentation as needed.

You Bring

• Bring a safety-first mindset to every task in the Fabrication Shop.
• 3 - 5 years of hands-on fabrication, welding, using hand tools, and mechanical assembly experience based on engineering designs.
• Understanding, redlining, and implementing designs from technical drawings.
• Practical experience assembling/disassembling novel/complex mechanical systems.
• High quality MIG/TIG welding skills (rough breakdown is 67% Stainless TIG, 33% MIG Carbon Steel/Stainless) - we typically work with 304 stainless.
• Proven experience with pipe and tube fitting/fixtureing, producing high quality weldments.
• The ability to work autonomously and troubleshoot on the job.
• Experience operating forklifts, telehandlers, scissor lifts, and/or a willingness to learn.
• A proactive, professional and "can do" attitude.
• Passion about contributing to our mission and growing the company.
• Must be physically able to climb ladders, bend, or crawl in awkward spaces.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds at a time.
• There may be prolonged periods of standing and walking.
• Strong digital and in person communication, thorough documentation skills, and a working knowledge of / the ability to learn the Google Product Suite (Google Slides, Documents, Sheets, Drive, Gmail, etc.).

Bonus if you Bring

• An ability to work with different suppliers to acquire the parts you need.
• Experience welding any exotic metals.
• Knowledge of welding codes or welding inspection methods (American Welding Society/AWS, American Society of Mechanical Engineers/ASME, American Petroleum Institute/API, etc.).
• Pipe fitting, orbital tube welding, or other pipe weldment/assembly work.
• Experience with previous CAD softwares.
• Experience with CNC operations.

$35 - $45 an hour

What We Offer

• Equity ownership through stock options.
• 100% employee healthcare premiums covered.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with multiple plan options.
• Employer-funded HSA contributions for eligible HDHP plans.
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 50% match on contributions up to 6%.
• Paid leave, including parental and medical leave.
• PPE and workwear allowances.
• Annual professional development stipend.
• Employee recognition programs that celebrate impactful work and team contributions.
• Opportunities for internal growth, career development, and transition into climate from a range of industries and backgrounds.

Visa Sponsorship Policy

Since we are a small startup, certain accommodations for visa sponsorship may not be within our capability. At this time, Charm Industrial is only sponsoring E3 and TN visas.

Our Commitment

Charm Industrial is an equal opportunity employer. We hire based on skills, experience, and passion for our mission. Climate challenges require a wide range of perspectives and expertise, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We're excited to grow our team with people who bring unique strengths and help us improve as a company.

At Charm, we may use AI-enabled tools to support certain aspects of the hiring process, including organizing candidate information and highlighting experience that may be relevant to a particular role. In a world where AI-assisted resumes, synthetic content, and deepfakes are increasingly common, these tools help our team navigate the process thoughtfully and efficiently. Every application and resume is reviewed by a member of our hiring team, and hiring decisions are made by people, not algorithms. Our recruiting process is designed to ensure candidates are evaluated fairly, consistently, and in alignment with our equal employment opportunity commitments. AI tools support our team's work, but they do not replace human judgment or determine hiring outcomes.