Various positions | Mote, Inc. | Los Angeles, CA
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Process Controls Engineer
The Process Controls Engineer will own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the control and safety systems for Mote’s modular gasification platform. This includes field instrumentation, distributed control systems (DCS), safety-instrumented systems (SIS), human-machine interfaces (HMI), data historians, and advanced analytics.
Reporting to the Director of Process Engineering, this role will also play a key part in developing, commissioning, and operating Mote’s Advanced Testing Center (ATC), where new process innovations and control strategies are validated at pilot scale.
This role is ideal for a hands-on controls engineer who thrives in first-of-a-kind systems, values safety and rigor, and is excited to apply modern control, data, and optimization techniques to climate-critical industrial processes.
Process Engineer
- Hands-on development and delivery of Process Engineering deliverables on projects and proposals. Process Engineering scope commonly includes all phases of design development, from conceptual engineering and detailed engineering through startup and plant operations.
- Front End Engineering Design (FEED) activities such as producing and reviewing deliverables (e.g., design basis, PFDs, P&IDs, H&MBs, equipment data sheets, startup and shutdown guidelines, etc.), participating in HAZOP reviews and RAM analyses, and evaluating proposals and bids from vendors and contractors.
- Develop and perform process simulations, configuration studies, and sensitivity analyses.
- Identify and evaluate creative design solutions that optimize Mote’s process, project capital/operating costs, equipment reliability/availability, or project schedule.
- Support R&D activities such as conducting literature search and preparing patent applications.
- Serve as a technical resource for internal and external customers and partners.
- Develop and maintain internal design tools and procedures.
Head of Business Development
- Source and negotiate MOUs, LOIs, and commercial agreements for joint project development, hydrogen offtake, carbon dioxide offtake, and other kinds of partnerships
- Identify and solicit new business to build and maintain a pipeline of projects.
- Work through company-provided leads to progress existing relationships, ultimately resulting in investment, offtake, project partnerships or other mutually beneficial goals
- Own the customer relationship from first meeting through contract execution. This includes managing the cadence of meetings, redlining contracts, coordination with internal team (executive, technical, finance, legal) to ensure accuracy in contracts, and leading negotiations with the customer
- Identify client needs and suggest terms of partnership that are mutually beneficial
- Prepare tailored term sheets for offtake after consulting with internal finance team
- Input customer data in a CRM, track development, and summarize/present key leads for executive team periodically.
- Attend and speak at industry conferences on behalf of the Company to gain exposure and create new contacts
- Utilize funding and grant opportunities as a platform to further develop new and existing relationships through collaboration on grant applications and grant projects
