Process Engineer

Job Description

As one of the most innovative and fast-growing companies in The Netherlands, Elestor offers exciting and competitive career opportunities with plenty of scope for both personal and professional development!

Position

As Process Engineer, you will find yourself in a front-end and pioneering environment where you will go where no one has gone before. You are part of the Engineering team with all-round process engineering and work on a new class of large-scale process installations for energy storage. On the way, you will be implementing best practices from other industries and resolving complex design challenges.

The role of Process Engineer provides the opportunity to deepen your engineering skills, and within the growing Elestor organization, there are multiple opportunities for internal growth. For example, towards project execution (project engineering, commissioning & start-up), discipline engineering (process engineering specialist), or as HAZOP leader and/or approver of Management of Change.

Elestor's Process Engineer reports to the Engineering Manager and is part of a team, building a new class of assets with a global impact on the energy transition. Your designs are meaningful, and your contribution will be essential for shaping the landscape of large-scale energy storage. A solution that must and will be deployed massively in the very near future!

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Develop and update P&ID and design documentation, focusing on continuous improvement of the technical designs and design processes
• Engage with equipment suppliers to select the optimal process equipment for each application
• Engage with internal and external material experts to select the optimal materials for construction
• Help design new process subsystems where standard industry solutions are unavailable or suitable and support testing of early-stage prototype systems
• A key contributor to implementing 21st-century engineering ways of working using advanced software (including digital twin models)
• Help define the internal standards for process engineering in Elestor
• Active involvement in internal and external safety studies (HAZOP, SIL, LOPA, and QRA)

Profile

The ideal candidate is eager to learn and thrives effortlessly in the Elestor culture (with a positive mindset, agility, and proactiveness). You possess technical creativity, curiosity, and a drive to investigate, translate and implement best practices and solutions from other (non-)established industries. Working on multiple projects with (possibly) conflicting deadlines is not an issue. On the contrary, you like those challenges, energizing you to strive for ownership and take over responsibilities!

Education, Skills and Experience

• BSc. or MSc. in Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering (or 3+ years of relevant working experience in Process Engineering)

• Sound understanding of chemical engineering and the ability to work with discipline specialists (instrumentation, automation, mechanical engineers & chemists)

• Experience with P&ID software and/or 3D-CAD software (or eager to learn)

• Elements considered an advantage: Knowledge of PED and ATEX norms
  Experience working with processes with explosive gases
  Experience working with processes with toxic liquids
  Knowlegde about fuel cell, electrolyser, or flow battery systems

• Able to communicate clearly in English about technical subjects

• An entrepreneurial mindset

Elestor's Mission & Relevance

Imagine a world without polluting power plants, powered purely by clean electricity.

This world is closer than you think. The sun and the wind are powerful enough, and so are the technologies to harvest their energy. However, possibilities to store renewable energy (sustainably, cost-effectively) are lacking; Long-Duration Electricity Storage (LDES) is ‘the missing link’ in the energy transition.

It is Elestor’s mission to cut the cost of electricity storage. We develop large-scale, cost-effective H2-X storage technologies that are carbon neutral and durable, thereby unifying the interests of the planet, people, and business profitability.

Elestor - Facts & Figures

Long Duration Electricity Storage deep tech company

• Winner of several (inter-)national awards

Ultra rapid growth path; Elestor is expanding in every direction

• Passionate team of 50 highly skilled professionals with the ambition to increase towards 100 fte within 1,5 years
• Closed €30M funding round in August 2022

Concrete and very fast-growing international market pull

• Agreements with clients strategically adopting the innovative storage technology in commercial settings

Technology & Roadmap

Elestor has been recognised as one of the 10 most innovative companies in the Netherlands by both the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. The revolutionary low-cost flow battery systems have received several (inter)national awards in recognition of the ability to reduce the cost of storing electricity to an absolute minimum. For more understanding, feel free to visit Elestor's website. Here you'll find more about the underlying fundamentals and the triple cost reduction strategy, making Elestor’s solution unique on the world stage.

Elestor is backed by a €30 million investment and is now ready to implement an ultra-rapid growth strategy to accelerate the commercialisation and operationalization of its proven hydrogen bromine flow battery technology. The segment is expected to represent a market potential of approximately €20 billion by 2025. The international market pull is already concrete and very fast growing.

People & Growth

At Elestor you will be in the middle of genuinely unprecedented developments, made possible by an international group of researchers and engineers of remarkable talent and diversity. In future years, the company will expand literally in every direction. In anticipation of this steep growth, Elestor will look forward to meeting sincere, thoughtful, and entrepreneurial individuals feeling energized to empower necessary change: towards a 100% clean electricity supply.

Elestor is an equal opportunities employer: We believe diversity aids creativity and innovation, so whatever your race, colour, nationality, national or ethnic origin, sex, gender, marital status, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability, you are welcome to join our ranks. We actively promote inclusion and we abhor discrimination. We treat all our employees, contractors, workers, job applicants, suppliers, clients and everyone else with respect.

Our Offer

Elestor offers an open, action-oriented and exciting working environment in a diverse and international team of highly skilled professionals. The company has a flat management structure and offers many opportunities to excel and grow.

Terms of employment are competitive and include participation in a Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) program. When we succeed, we all benefit. Especially in caring for what we share the most: a healthy planet.

How to apply

To apply for this position, please send your application with CV and motivation letter to [email protected]