What are the responsibilities and job description for the Materials Engineer position at Envision Energy?
Materials Engineer
Envision Group is a leading greentech company with its presence in Europe, North America and Asia. With the mission of ‘solving the challenges for a sustainable future’, Envision designs, sells and operates smart wind turbines and strives to produce green chemicals towards global carbon footprint reduction. Envision is committed to promoting the adaption of wind and solar power, electric batteries and green hydrogen to create a zero-carbon world.
Green hydrogen plays an essential role towards our net-zero mission. Hydrogen has widespread industrial and transport applications. Conventional hydrogen production from fossil fuels is accompanied by the release of large quantities of carbon dioxide. Our innovative technologies take renewable energy and water to produce green hydrogen with zero emission. We aspire to improve the efficiency, reduce the cost, and scale the manufacturing to meet booming green hydrogen market.
We are therefore seeking talented and highly motivated Materials Engineer to join our newly launched H2 Center of Excellence (COE) near Burlington, MA. You will be engaged in catalyst, electrode, and porous transport media development for our innovative water electrolysis technologies. We will work together to create groundbreaking solutions to transform our technologies for low-cost green H2 production.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Benchmark advanced anode and cathode catalysts and porous transport media (PTM) for water electrolysis under alkaline or acid media
- Perform advanced coatings for water electrolysis electrodes and PTM using thermal spraying, chemical vapor deposition, electroplating, etc.
- Brainstorm innovative solutions for electrode coating towards electrolyzer performance and durability improvement
- Develop best practice and protocols, e.g, accelerated stress testing (AST), for electrode or PTM coating
- Pinpoint underlying electrode coating degradation mechanisms and bring up mitigating solutions to enhancing the electrode stability
- Scale up electrode coating from lab scale to full scale using industry processes
- Work cohesively with chemists for new catalyst and membrane development
- Collaborate with testing engineers for electrode testing and rigorous data analysis
- Delegate the corporation to interact with coating vendors, customers, and other stakeholders
Qualifications:
- BS Degree in chemistry, materials Science, chemical Engineering, or mechanical Engineering with 4 years of related experiences or M.S.
- Strong experience in low and intermediate temperature fuel cells and electrolyzers
- Hands-on experience in commercial electrolyzer system manufacturing
- Knowledgeable about catalyst, membrane, ionomer, gas diffusion layer, and other components
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Must be a fast learner and proactive performer
- Must be an innovator with bottom-up ideas
Benefits
Envision offers a very competitive comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees.
- Medical, dental and vision
- Short- and Long-term disability
- FSA (medical and dependent care)
- Basic life and additional life insurance
- 401k with employer match
- Generous vacation/PTO policy
- 8 federal holidays 4 floating holidays
- Sick leave
- Generous employer contribution towards monthly benefit premiums
Candidates should expect up to 15% international travel.
This is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
